Sketch Saturday - Sea Turtle

This was a fun card to make for this week’s sketch challenge. The Sea Turtle Stamp Set is amazing. It’s a reversible set which means you can ink up and stamp both sides, the detailed and the background for a filler.

 
 

The sketch is from the weekly Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. All the banners were cut from the Let’s Go Fishing Designer Series Paper.

 
 

Tips & Instructions

  • Thick Very Vanilla Card Base - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, score at 4 1/4

  • Very Vanilla Layer - 5 1/2 x 4 1/4, emboss using the Raindrops Embossing Folder and adhere to the card base.

  • Mossy Meadow Layer - 4 1/4 x 2 1/4

  • Very Vanilla Layer - 4 x 2, stamp bubble image with Boho Blue, stamping off to get a lighter shade. Stamp to fill in the entire layer. Adhere layer to Mossy Green Layer.

  • Cut strips of the Let’s Go Fishing Designer Series Paper at 1/4, 1/2 and 3/5 by about 2. Punch one end using the Banners Pick A Punch (or with paper snips). Adhere across the bottom of the layers varying pattern, size and length. To adhere them I put a strip of Stampin’ Seal+ across the back of the layer and just line the banners across. Adhere layer with banners to card.

  • Stamp 2 small turtles and one large starfish on scraps of Very Vanilla. I used Mossy Meadow on the turtles stamping the detailed side directly first and then flip the stamp over and ink up the back. Stamp off twice on scrap paper and stamp to fill in the background. Stamp the Starfish with Wild Wheat Ink directly on the detailed side and then flip the stamp over and ink up the back and stamp off once than stamp over the starfish to fill it in.

  • Fussy cut the turtles and starfish and adhere to card using Dimensionals.

  • Stamp sentiment (from the Beautiful Balloons Stamp Set) with Mossy Meadow Ink on scrap of Very Vanilla and fussy cut around it. Adhere with Dimensionals.

  • Add some Boho Blue Dots.

 
 

This is a great masculine birthday card!

 
 

On the inside layer stamp some turtles, starfish and sand dollars using both sides of the stamp and stamping off like I did on the front. Stamp the sentiment with Mossy Meadow Ink.

 
 

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