Seaside Shore Card No 2

Hello, Crafters.

Yesterday I spent my day, first of all designing, and then making, a special bookmarker that I'm going to send out to all my customers, with the new Christmas catalogue. Unfortunately, I never do "quick & easy" so this is quite a mammoth task and is going to take up most of my weekend!

I'm so pleased with the idea I came up with, I'll be making a video which I hope will be ready for next Wednesday. All my customers should have received their catalogues by then! 
 
I'm not going into the details because I don't want to spoil the surprise for my customers! ☺

While I was working on these gifts yesterday, I had YouTube playing on my iPad. It was on autoplay and the videos all featured the Limited Edition Thoughtful Branches.

I decided that I'd create a card for today using the set! As you can see it didn't quite work out according to plan! LOL. 

I started making the hydranga but I just didn't feel I could do something different. I think having seen so many great ideas during the day, I'd OD'd on Thoughtful Branches. 

Instead, I decided to have my second play with Seaside Shore - no idea why I chose that one but I'm so pleased I did.  The style of this card is so unusual for me but I love it! I'll certainly use this idea again. 

My original idea was to have just the fish and the seaweed as you see it now, but I was going to put a top layer of Marina Mist that had a circle cut out of it, rather like a porthole window.

I had die cut the circle and then dry embossed the layer using the Seaside Embossing Folder. 

When I was about to adhere it on top, something made me stop and I decided I liked the scene as it was. 
 
Using Marina Mist Ink and Cardstock, I stamped and fussy cut one each of the two shells, as well as the two starfish. 

Then I adhered them in place, making sure I kept my scene just in the centre of my layer. 

As I always cut my card bases and layers to the same size and I like a total of three layers, I was now one short!

I'd already adhered the Pear Pizzazz layer to my Marina Mist card base, so I cut the base in half, effectively making it the second layer. Then I took a piece of Pear Pizzazz and cut it a bit larger than normal and adhere the layers to it. My finished card was 1/4" taller and wider but it still fits into one of our regular envelopes.

To create the scene I used Pear Pizzazz Ink on Pear Pizzazz Cardstock and Marina Mist Ink on Marina Mist Cardstock. I fussy cut all the images. 

The only parts I stamped directly onto the layer are the bubbles and the sentiment, which is from Guy Greetings. 
I'm so pleased with my finished card - I feel it looks very clean and airy! 

That's about it for today. I hope you have a great weekend. Until tomorrow, happy crafting.

JanB.