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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Under the Sea Birthday Card

Created this Under the Sea Birthday card in monochromatic shades of blue layers. The center is an Artist Trading Card (ATC) 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" piece of artwork. Used scrapbook paper for sky & water. Stamped and cut out the ship, octopus & coins. Colored the coins. Used blue saran wrap to give the look of water.
























color: Crayola pencil color - for coins

glitter: gold - for coins

ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

paper:
3 shades of blue cardstock
scrapbook paper - sky & water

stamp: Inkadinkado 

Entering this into the following challenges:

A Muse Studio Color My World must do coloring of some sort lim3 2nd 5/13-26
Anything Goes Ch67 Colour Combo Black with one another unlim 2nd black + blue 5/15-27
Chocolate Coffee Cards Ch13 For the Boys 5/18-31
Craft Your Days Away Ch45 All Creatures Great & Small unlim 4th 5/12-24
Crazy 4 Ch C4C137 B'day Card 5/19
Crop Stop Ch72 Masculine Bday Card lim3 1st 5/17-23
Dare to Be Sassy Thurs Ch125 Triple Play unlim used 3 coins 2nd 5/17-23
Gingerloft GL40 Under the Sea 5/13-26
Hiding in my Craft Room HIMCR 46 Do Over I used an ATC I made awhile ago & made it into a birthday card 5/19-25
Jaihart Sundays are Lovely #9 Anything Goes unlim 25th 5/6-31
Just Keep On Creating Anything Goes unlim 23rd 5/5-6/18 

LEJ Designs Ch3 Lots of Layers unlim 4th 5/15-20
Paper & Such Anniv Ch B'day Card 5/18-23
Robyns Fetish Ch108 Anything Goes lim3 1st 5/20-26
Simon Says Clean & Simple unlim 3rd 5/16-22
Simon Says Stamp & Show Anything Goes unlim 7th 5/14-20

18 comments:

  1. Gorgeous creation, thanks for joining us at Chocolate, Coffee and Cards!

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  2. All the layers of blue are so pretty...what a unique, adorable card. Thanks for joining us this morning on the Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge. We appreciate your support and participation so much. Blessings on your week. Diane (SSIC DT)

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  3. Great card lovethe images and colour. Thank you forjoining us at LEJ Design Challenge. Goodluck. Chris xx

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  4. Very cute! Nice colors and cute images, too! Thanks for joining us at THE ROBYN'S FETISH CHALLENGE!

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  5. great ideas here - love this - thanks for joining us at LEJ Designs this week! Rachel xx

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  6. Smashing card, like your colours, thanks for joining us at Robyns Fetish anything goes challenge, good luck, cheers Sue N x

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  7. Fab card! Thanks for playing along with our CropStop Masculine Card Challenge.

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  8. Love the use of the plastic wrap. Thank you for joining in the fun at www.CropStop.com!

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  9. What a fun boys card...love the ocean theme... thanks for joining us at Simon Says Challenge blog

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  10. What a fab creation , thanks for sharing it with us at anything goes challenge.
    Emma xx

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  11. What a great card! Thank you for playing along with our masculine challenge at CropStop!

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  12. Beautiful card. Love all your blue colors.
    Thanks for joining Craft Your Days Away.
    Hugs Berit

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  13. Love these colours sweetie. Fab card and image. Thank you so much for joining us at Craft Your Day's Away this time and good luck.

    Hugs
    Cathy
    xxxxxx

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  14. Nice job. Thanks for playing along with the A Muse Studio Challenge this week...

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  15. Hi Melissa - love all of the blue layers! Your card is gorgeous and perfect for this challenge...thank you for joining us at Stampin' Sisters in Christ this week - we appreciate your support! {{{hugs}}}
    Linda SSIC Design Team

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  16. Love that you used an ATC card to make a card. I never thought of using some of my ATC. Thanks for the ideal and Thanks for joining us at HIMCR DT AJ!

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  17. great ocean themed card, the blue is all so calming.

    Thanks so much for sharing your creation at Anything goes, Just keep on creating, I hope you will continue to play along. Sorry about the the delay in leaving my comment I have been overseas and then got sick, I will be announcing the winners and will have the next challenge up asap :)

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