It’s getting hot, summer is in full swing so it’s a great time to incorporate a Tropical theme into your handmade cards. This bold, colorful style features images like palm trees, colorful blooms, beachy scenes and jungle animals and can work for birthday, Bon Voyage, missing you and so much more. So let’s dive into some fun Tropical Card Ideas!
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This card features pretty pink Whimsy Stamps die cut Hibiscus flowers and blue leaves in tie dye patterns created with Distress Inks. There’s also a gold embossed sentiment and gold sparkly dot accents for shine too. I spotted this card on katieannbrooks’ Instagram page.
This amazing die cut platform box card has rows of die cut palm trees, beautiful blue waves and a relaxing hammock swinging in the tress. This card folds flat for mailing and pops up for display. Watch Joy’s video tutorial on the Lawn Fawn blog.
This darling dancing Hula Hippo card from Caitlin was designed using stamps from My Favorite Things. The pink bird adds a nice bright pop of pink. Find the sketch she followed and learn more about this card on the MFT blog.
Hawaiian shirts make for great masculine tropical card designs. Lisa used The Stamps of Life shirt stamp with small flower and leaves stamps and a masking technique to create her own pattern for the shirt. She’s sharing a video tutorial for this and other tropical cards at the Lisa Mears Designs blog.
Lisa created this funny scene card with stamps from Art Impressions. I love all the little stamped extras she added like the tote bag, sun and umbrella, notice how they aren’t really in the scene but add more interest to the overall design. Visit the Color Me Lisa blog for all the details.
This beautiful beach scene from Brenda has so much wonderful texture from die cutting and dry embossing. Notice how the blue in the sentiment, hammock and ocean waves moves the eye around the scene. Swim over to the Honey Bee Stamps blog for more info.
This adorable parrot is here to wish someone a very Happy Birthday with a cute puny sentiment. She’s stamped and colored with Copic markers surrounded by die cut tropical leaves with a ink blended and splattered background. Learn more at the Sunny Studio blog.
These quick and easy tropical leaf cards use letter press plates with different colors of inks and only need a sentiment and a few embellishments to finish them off perfectly. Check them out over at the Spellbinders blog.
This cute Quokka (and adorable animal from Australia) is ready to hit the waves on this card from Maria. He and his surfboard are stamped and colored with Copics and the amazing background she created has die cut sand, surf and palm tree with a beautiful stenciled sky. Pop over to the Kat Scrappiness blog for more details.
Jess used lots of different technique for this bold and beautiful tropical flower card. There’s die cutting, heat embossing, dry embossing, stamping and ink blending and she’s sharing it all in a video tutorial on her J V Designs blog.
Wow, this stunning card from Kathy has fun mixed media elements like a wax seal, stamping, coloring with Distress Inks, 3D flowers, pattern papers and more. Find all the details on the Kathy by Design blog.
Layering stencils and different ink pad colors are an easy way to add color and realistic dimension like Anna did with this stunning Hibiscus card. Behind the flowers she added a die cut vellum oval and plaid background, a few gems and sentiment add the finishing touches. Take a closer look at The Ton Stamps blog.
I hope you’ve felt like you’ve been swept away to a tropical island with these amazing card design!
-Heather
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