For some more bright and colorful cards, I pulled out DCWV’s Bahama Mama paper pad.  I decided to challenge myself to use 1/2 of the 48 sheet 12×12 pad.  When flipping through the paper I realized that a few of the designs did not lend themselves to card making.  I ended up pulling out 21 sheets of paper, not quite half but definitely a good start.

As several of the papers have large scale prints, I kept the layouts simple using many of the papers for backgrounds.  Papers with cut-aparts and smaller prints were used as the focal points.  As the paper was 12×12 in size, I was able to make several of each card.

To get started I used the banana print and some cute monkey stickers I had picked up at the local dollar store.

I really liked the pineapple prints but couldn’t figure out a way to cut them to make a focal panel.  Instead I used them as part of the background, pairing them with a smaller print.  For some more color I used pink and teal specialty paper for the circles behind the sentiments.

For these cards I used a pink flamingo print as the background, but the other pieces were all from a single sheet of paper.  The paper had several different prints running horizontally across the paper.  Cutting the prints into strips I used the pineapples for the bottom panel and different flamingo prints for the upper panel.

I hadn’t used any of the cut-aparts so I looked for a card sketch that would work.  To keep the background from being too flat I used a couple different embossing folders.  As a final touch I added a specialty paper flag for some added interest.

I still had a couple of cut-aparts which I didn’t think worked with the previous design.  I remembered I had some tropical print washi tape and decided to try it.  Using the washi tape as stripes across the card added some color and matched the cut-apart.  To finish the card I stamped a small Hello sentiment and added a couple of black Nuvo drops.

With 21 sheets of paper, I was able to make a ton of cards.  I even pulled out the 2nd sheet of some designs, like the leaf background on the monkey cards, so that I could use up all of the banana print paper.  I think this will make a nice batch of bright cheerful cards to donate.