Under the Sea and Beach fun Sample cards

Joanna was on TV today with some wonderful shows with an Under the sea and Beach theme, all very summery and colourful.

I designed alot of the dies for the shows and have made some sample cards.  I had a lot of fun making these and used various things to colour them.

Here they are:

I found a simple outline for the goggles on the internet

and printed them out the size I needed to make a template

I cut 2 out by hand cutting the insides away.  The one on 

the front of card has acetate behind and the one

stuck to the inside edge is to keep it neat when

the card is opened up.

and when it is opened up... 

I created the background using Distress Oxide ink 

and also die cut some of the dies using off cuts of the same background

and other brusho backgrounds I had made.. left over background pieces of card

are great for this

Using 4 colours I created a torn paper background

the netting is Navy Tulle. I paper pieced

the diver.

 This background is made from various 

colours of Brusho

 

 I used Distress Oxides for the 'water'

The table and mat are Joanna Sheen

papers from Vol.3 paper pad and the 

lace on top of the mat and in 

each corner is Maisie Lace border

Joanna demonstated how to do the waves on this card

by curving off the corner and cutting into

the Ocean Corner Signature die 

 

 Here's the same card but with the seals on the rocks

 

 I used Distress Oxides for the background and rocks

 

 This is an easle card

 I used some lovely irridescent paper

for the large pearl and around the shell. 

 

 This card was so much fun to make.  I created the words on the topper

on my PC leaving space for the picture with dies. All the dies

were watercoloured with Distress Oxide inks.

 

 I used a snow pen for the sea foam.. I heated it gently to 

make it puff up a little bit.