Your Next Stamp Challenge 68: Sea Shaker Card

Happy Friday!  Another week has flown by!  Do you have any plans for the weekend?  If they include crafting, then let me encourage you to play along with Your Next Stamp’s Challenge 68, which starts today and offers two chances of winning a $15-20 gift certificate (For all of the challenge details, head over to the YNS blog).  You can play along with either the sketch or the color inspiration, or if you’re feeling really inspired, use both!  I’ve used the sketch for my card today.

I just love the adorable critters from Sea Creatures Set One, and they pair with the Sea Sentiments set perfectly!  I stamped my images with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, colored them with Copics, and cut them out.  For my background I ink-blended some Bristol Smooth paper with the following colors of Distress Ink (going from the bottom):  Tea Dye, Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers, and Cracked Pistachio.  I sprinkled on some water, blotted it, and die-cut the panel with two dies from Craftin Desert Divas.

I adhered the rectangle to a white card and glued my sea creatures to it before adding some clear seed beads on top.  I backed the frame with clear acetate and foam tape and popped it onto my card.  I took two sentiments from the Sea Sentiments set and heat-embossed them onto banners die-cut with YNS’s Cool Tag Banner Dies.  To give the banners the same shape as my frame, I also die-cut the ends with the frame die.  After adding the banners to my card with foam tape, I was done!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you’ll play along with Challenge 68.  As I said, there are two gift certificates up for grabs, and the challenge runs for two weeks.  Have a great weekend!

1 COMMENT

  1. Lisa Lara | 7th Jul 17

    Absolutely brilliant Andrea!

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