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Seaside Shore Card No 2

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27 Aug

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.



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  1. Catherine Giordano says

    August 27, 2016 at 9:34 am

    I just love your creativity here! Great job.

    Reply
    • JanB says

      August 27, 2016 at 7:44 pm

      Hi, Catherine. Many thanks for your kind words, they really are appreciated! ☺ Happy crafting, JanB.

      Reply
  2. Geraldine Homenchuk says

    August 27, 2016 at 12:52 pm

    What a visually pretty card and yet so simple and straight forward. Love the layout, the colour combination that you have used and of course, that Guy Greeting script! (isn't it the best?! Turn to it all the time too) — it suits the over all layout and the line-art stamps just perfectly though. Very well done!!

    Reply
    • JanB says

      August 27, 2016 at 7:43 pm

      Hi, Geraldine. I have used that sentiment sooo many times! Like you, I love the font! I think it's very stylish. ☺ Happy crafting, JanB.

      Reply
  3. paowens11 says

    August 27, 2016 at 4:45 pm

    Love this card Jan, you should be very pleased! Love the way the fish are swimming amongst the seaweed. Totally worth all the "fussy cutting"! Thank you!

    Reply
  4. JanB says

    August 27, 2016 at 7:40 pm

    Hi, Paowens. Many thanks. I'm lucky because I enjoy fussy cutting! LOL! ☺ Happy crafting, JanB. find f

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