The card that almost killed me

The sketch on the MFT board this week was super tough, it had a rectangle, a circle and a wavy line! SHEESH! A couple day’s ago I got inspired about the wavy line and the circle but got stuck on the rectangle. So I stopped and tried to find a way to incorporate a rectangle into my design, but I couldnt. So I went ahead and made a card anyway.

There are a few little elements in this card that kept getting lost! Those pesky little sea shells and that hat! I have no idea where they went, maybe stuck to my feet, but I had to remake them several times.

Finally after working on this sketch for several days and remaking things over and over I am happy it’s done with. But I am also happy with the card. I really like some of the elements I used to make it and I am proud of how it turned out. And since there is so much going on I thought I would explain how I made it.

Instructions:

1) I started with a piece of Papertrey white CS and cut and folded it to standard size.
2) Next I punched out 3 scallop circles in scrap CS and then cut them to make my clouds. I held one at a time in place as I sponged “soft sky” around it. I ended up with 3 clouds and extended the “sky” to almost the bottom of the card.
3) Then I cut a piece of bashful blue CS to 4.5 x 5.5 and put it in my swirls cuttlebug folder. Then I trimed it where I like the pattern for waves.
4) I then accented the waves first with waterfall stickles and then again underneath it with lace stickles to make the seafoam and set it aside to dry.
5) I stamped the gal, seashells and hat in graphite brilliance ink and heat set it, then colored them in with my copics and cut it all out.
6) Next I cut a piece of white CS to 5.5 x 2 and then tore the edge. I sponged the whole piece in creamy caramel ink, then randomly with a little chocolate chip ink for the sand. I sponged more chocolate chip ink around the torn edge for contrast.
7) Then I took a small sponge and used white craft ink along the torn edge, then poured white EP onto it and heat set it. With the chocolate chip more heavy under the white it makes a nice shadow.
I then adhered the waves and sand to the card and then adhered my seashells and lady to the card. I used dimensionals to adhere the hat, giving it some shadow.
9) Next I inked up the sentiment with my black SU marker to fit it in a circle punch, (1 3/8) I used my paper piercing tool to punch a hole in the “I” for the crystal brad. This was layered onto a so saffron scallop circle and placed onto the card with dimensionals.
10) Finally I stamped the birds in the sky with brilliance graphite ink.

I really need to clean my desk so that I wont loose so much small stuff next time and spend half the time looking for it! I hope your week is going well!

The DEETS:

Stamps: By the seashore-MFT
Ink: brilliance graphite black, creamy caramel, soft sky, white craft
CS: Papertrey white, so saffron
Accessories: 1 3/8 circle punch, scallop circle punch, white EP, copic markers, ice rhinestone brads, cuttlebug embossing folder, lace stickles, waterfall stickles, sponge.

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