Soak up the fun in a sea of vellum.

Hi everybody,

Jill here, and this week, I'm making a splash in a sea of vellum...

...using My Favourite Thing's 'Soak Up The Fun'.

I started with an idea to create a circle aperture of coloured vellum waves with these cute sea critters swimming in amongst them, but when I was looking through my circle dies, I came across this absolute beaut, 'Hoop Die', form Neat and Tangled that I hadn't used in a while, and thought it would add a nice little twist on the scene, so opted for that.

I started by cutting a panel using Lawn Fawn's Stitched Rectangles, then cutting the hoop die from it.  I then cut the hoop die again to build the frame up, and in-laid it back in.  I cut strips of vellum using Mama Elephant's Landscape Trio cloud die upside down to create waves and coloured using alcohol markers.  I then adhered these to the back of my hoop aperture, creating pretty layers.  I stamped out my critters, coloured using Copics, fussy-cut, and adhered in place, bobbing about on the ocean!

My sentiment is from the same Soak up the Fun set, and is stamped out onto the banner from Avery Elle's Woodland Wonders set, and fussy-cut.  To add a little more interest to my background, I stamped out a load of the little bubbles that come in the set, and filled them with Glossy Accents.

I then mounted my finished panel onto a cream card blank, and there you have it.

I really hope you like it, as always, everything I used is linked below.

See you next week.

Jillx

Hello lovely...blog readers!

Hi!

I'm so glad to be back... and wasn't it worth the wait!

The website looks amazing and I can't wait for a proper explore.

Back to today..

I guess I should have done something all celebratory, but I've got flowers, glitter and a hello.

I started with the fantastic die from Neat & Tangled

I wanted it to swing, so once I'd cut it out from some glitter paper (& turned the paper over and die cut again so I had a glittered hoop no matter which way it swung), I added some thread before I sandwiched them together and then suspended it from the reverse of the front part of the card.

For the stamping.. well, I had to use the matching stamp set

I wanted to create it using non traditional colours; navy seemed a good way to go! I wanted navy on the front too.

No patterned papers were harmed during the process (!) as it's all strips of cardstock- great for when you've bits to use up, or just easier sometimes to match ink colours or marker colours. The centre is die cut after I'd made the front stripes, which then gave me the chance to twist the central cut out and so play with direction too. 

I've obviously stuck it into the middle part of the inside, but it adds real interest when stood up and the recipient is looking through!

I added the sentiment coming off at an angle that matched the hanging hoop and popped a couple of little pearls (partly to add a little weight and make the hoop stand still a little better!).

Well, I hope your New Year has started well. Enjoy having a mooch around the site. We'll all be joining you shopping, and I'll try not to bump into you down the aisles! ;-).

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See you next week,

Keren xx