Tantalizing Tropicals No. 6

Here's the final project from Tantalizing Tropicals.  It might be my favorite one, though it's hard to pick since the June Collection was SO amazing!  I'm really glad the entire thing has been added to the main stamps and dies catalog!  Once again for this one, I used the Shine Bright die!  That little diamond shape is SO versatile.  This time, it's sneakily hidden as the sleeves of the shirt.  I used a portion of a stitched tag from the "Gift Tag Trio" die set.  It was a pretty quick card to do, just a lot of flora elements in lots of colors.  But, the final result is just so eye catching!  Typically for stamp classes, I don't do a sentiment on the inside, but the Dr. Seuss quote just seemed so appropriate for such a stand out looking Hawaiian shirt.

Supplies
Stamps: A Muse Be yourself set
Ink: A Muse bubblegum, ocean, lime, sky, and margarita
Paper: A Muse vanilla cardstock
Misc.: A Muse shine bright and gift tag trio die sets, A Muse vanilla buttons

Tantalizing Tropicals No. 5

Here's the non-card project from the tropicals class.  I had this idea to try and make a three dimension pineapple something.  I looked at the Shine Bright die from A Muse Studio, which I previously used for the super hero pillow box, and just thought it really could look like the scales of a pineapple!  So, I die cut a TON of them out and curled them on a wooden dowel just like the scallops from this card.  It gave them a lot more depth and texture once I attached them to popcorn box.  By overlapping the diamond die cuts, it also made them look less like a bunch of diamonds and more like the natural texture of a pineapple!  I used leaf die cuts and a paper straw to make the top knot of leaves.  The tag with sentiment is actually a candy wrapper die cut!  I love how it turned out, it really matched the image I had in my head.

Supplies
Stamps: A Muse pineapple of my eye set
Ink: A Muse Wasabi
Paper: A Muse lemonwhip, grass, wasabi hexagon, and wasabi petite pinstripe cardstock
Misc.: A Muse vanilla twine, cello bags, A Muse short popcorn box, shine bright, candy wrapper, flowers 1, and tag bundle (eyelet) die sets, yellow striped paper straws

Tantalizing Tropicals No. 4

For this card, I was inspired by this card.  I love the curled scallops, it gives such a cool texture.  It also seemed to go really well with the pineapples since real ones have such a textured surface.  To get the paper to curl, I wrapped each scalloped strip around a wooden down and then only adhered the tops of the strips to the card.  This leaves the scalloped bottoms loose to curl upwards.  I'm really happy with how dramatic it looks!

Supplies
Stamps: A Muse pineapple of my eye set
Ink: A Muse lemon whip and wasabi
Paper: A Muse sugar, wasabi, margherita, lemonwhip, and hexagon wasabi cardstock
Misc.: A Muse large scallop edge die, foam mounting tape, A Muse library card catalog die

Tantalizing Tropicals No. 3

Well, darn if it isn't hard to blog while on vacation without wifi!  It's even harder when you spend nearly that entire vacation sick!  Can you believe it?  We went on our annual trip with our group of college friends and I spent almost all of it sick with and ear infection!  We've been home since Sunday, and it's still not gone all the way.  Worst luck ever!

Oh well, on with real life I guess.  It's halfway through July, so I better finish up blogging about June's class!  Here's the third card from June.  I discovered that the long and narrow candy wrapper die and the library card catalog die were the same length!  So, from there I came up with this ombre design.  I die cut each of the color of pieces and mounted them to a piece of scratch cardstock behind them so that I could stamp the large hibiscus border just once as if the entire thing were a single piece of paper.  It also made it a lot easier to pop up on foam mounting tape.  I made sure to staple the loop of twine on BEFORE putting on the mounting tape.  Or rather, I did the second time round.  Whoops!

Supplies

Stamps: A Muse hibiscus border and pineapple of my eye sets

Ink: VersaMark and VersaFine black onyx

Paper: A Muse kraft, bermuda petite stripe, sky, bermuda, and mermaid cardstock

Misc.: A Muse white embossing powder, A Muse vanilla twine, Tim Holtz tiny attacher stapler, foam mounting tape, A Muse tag bundle, candy wrapper, and pinking circles, library card catalog die sets

Tantalizing Tropicals No. 2

Our June collection from A Muse Studio is really a big hit!  All of it is so much for to work with!  Here, I used the large outlined hibiscus flowers and watercolor.  I did them with gold embossing and I think they look really elegant with the pearl stickers!

Supplies

Stamps: A Muse tropical blooms and be yourself sets

Ink: VersaMark and A Muse lime

Paper: A Muse blush and lime cardstock and watercolor paper

Misc.: A Muse tropical blooms dies, A Muse shell pearl stickers, foam mounting tape, Ranger Superfine detail gold embossing powder, Nicholson's peerless watercolors and transparent gold

Tantalizing Tropicals No. 1

Well,  it's been a while!  Life's been busy at our house.  Kieran finished up the preschool school year AND my husband finished up grad school!  He is now has an impressive Masters of Aerospace Engineering!  He's a damn awesome guy!  To recover from all of this, we left for a week long beach trip the day after the school year was over.  It wasn't tropical, because well the beach in June in Washington just isn't.  But it was still awesome!  Everybody had a great time, even the dog.  Sand castles, kites, collecting shells, long walks and more.

We're back home now and finding a new routine of life without grad school and on summer vacation. It's going to be quite the adjustment.  Now that we're back and unpacked, I can share with you all the great projects we did for my Tantalizing Tropicals class back at the very beginning of the month.  

Here's the first.  It uses the neat "Hibiscus border" stamp and the "Be Yourself" set (it's FLAMINGOS!!!) For the waves, I used a scalloped border die and just used the opposite side of it.  Love how it turned out!

Supplies

Stamps: A Muse hibiscus border and be yourself sets

Ink: A Muse blush, mermaid, pebble, seattle, and bubblegum

Paper: A Muse kraft, bermuda petite pinstripe, bermuda, and blush

Misc.: A Muse tag bundle, medium scallop border, be yourself and landscape border die sets, foam mounting tape, A Muse onyx pearl stickers