Another Pool Party!

I'm back to Pool party's this week... it must be a subliminal anticipation of summer re-starting! 

This time it's the younger generation having fun on their floaties...

I've used a couple of the new items from Avery Elle including the Sea Scene Die which I've cut in both navy and white card so I could layer the white waves behind the navy pieces for a contrast and dimension. The two girls are from the fun Pool Party stamp set and I've coloured them with Copics then cut them out although coordinating dies are available..... 

they look like they're having great fun!

I've used a large word die cut and a sentiment from Reverse Confetti's Word Up set 

then added some water splashes around the image to break up the white space. 

   

 

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Huge Thanks!!

Hi there :)

For today's card I have revisited the idea of using the MFT Balloon Strings background as water... you may remember I had seals bobbing about in the water last time :)
To make my ocean blue, I clear embossed the balloon strings on watercolour card and added a generous wash of water before dropping in watercolours in blues and aquamarines.

I cut a slit along one of the lines so I could tuck this jolly whale from Avery Elle's Swim Team into the ocean... he looks like he's surfacing to say hello and thank you :)  I do love the Swim Team Elle-ments die set that compliments these stamps... it contains some useful shapes for any watery scene. I used the seaweed shaped dies to add white waves around the whale and the main border to make a choppy ocean...

Hehe... it looks like we've spotted him through a telescope out at sea .... and a very shimmery sea as well thanks to a good spritz of perfect pearls mixed with water over the water coloured ocean :)


    


This would be another embossing technique you could use for our current monthly challenge... have you played along yet?

Thanks for stopping by :)
Jenny x