Out of the Box Ocean Scenes

Hello hello... yay it's Bank Holiday Monday... fingers crossed for a sunny one too!!

Today I have a couple of cards using the Ocean Add-Ons for the Lawn fawn shadow box but neither are a shadow box!!! Come and see....

The die set contains a great scalloped frame with a stitch detail to the outside which can be used on a card front to fame your scene. For the first card above, I used a spare piece of water-coloured card from another project to place behind the aperture and then coloured the underwater plants and clam with distress inks. I arranged them along the base of the scene and stamped a school of fish, from Avery Elle's Sea-prise, on the background. The shark is from Waffleflowers Tiger & Lily stamp set... I love how he's swooshing into the scene :)

I challenged myself to use other dies in the set for a second card... the waves and the whale.
I cut both waves in blue card and decided to leave the tabs on and curve them on the card base for some dimension.

As you can see from the photo below I had to cut one of the waves slightly shorter and make a new score line and tab so I could layer the waves.

Before adding them to the card base I sponged Limestone ink through the Carta Bella Shiplap stencil for a striped nautical feel. After layering the waves I added the whale which is coloured with distress inks and gave him a watery squirt from his blowhole by using the piece of coral from the die set.
You can see in the photo that the waves are lavishly covered with a glitter pen but it looks better in real life. The sentiment is from Avery Elle's Splash stamp set.

This card is either a 'deliver by hand' or will need a box to send it in but you could easily adjust the height of the dimension depending on where you adhere the waves on the card base.

I think this is a great standalone die set and I didn't even use the banner which is another useful shape and it's fun to use it alongside other stamp sets in your stash too :)


                   

                                                                                                                    

Birthday Polaroid

Hello and happy Monday morning :)

It's been a hot week in the craftroom and Mr Mojo has obviously been off enjoying the summer this week too so I have a simple CAS card for you....

I needed a birthday card for someone who loves photography, although to be fair not with a Polaroid camera but this way I can have an interactive element on the card *wink* 

I love this simple sketched camera from Avery Elle and I wanted to use patterned paper but have it off set with the image. To do this I first stamped the image on scrap white copy paper and trimmed it out roughly then used it like a dressmakers pattern by lying it on the patterned paper and cutting around it. I was quite carefree with the scissors so as not to get an exact shape copy. After attaching the spotty paper to the card I stamped the image over the top making sure it was offset then did the same with the extra buttons and lens ring too...

The Polaroid is quite easy to make by cutting a slit in the front panel and posting the card through... I've shaped the card so it can't be pulled out the whole way and added a piece of foam tape to the back of the panel to stop it from disappearing back into the card too!! The sentiments are both made from Waffleflower stamp sets.... I kept the Polaroid quite simple and drew some burst lines around the phrase.

        

Thanks for stopping by... see you next week :)

Jenny x