I am slightly amazed that I have managed to find the time to make this card today. In a matter of hours, I am off to the Lake District for a week with my family (Really, really, really hoping the weather turns out nice as we are hiking most of the week).
So, the theme for this week's challenge is the Sea and things seen in or by it. I have done a few sea-themed cards recently: I entered another challenge a few weeks back and of course, there is the sailing card for the Olympics.
I made this one a really quick card by using a pre-made embellishment as the central focus of the design. These dolphins were given to me by my German room-mate last year whose family owned a craft shop. I finished the card with some blue fabricy-paper stuff and some paper ribbon. A Happy Birthday tag was added to the bottom and as an after thought, I had an experiment with some glitter glue that my sister found by creating a wave pattern up the length of the ribbon.
This is a super quick entry for a crafty challenge with the theme of the sea. To begin with, I could only think of the cards I had already made, which were actually more than I had thought.
I decided to make sea turtle the main feature of my card. For these, I used pale green paper and highlighted the edges with green pencil. After laying it out, I felt it needed something more than just the sequin bubbles and the green ribbon so I added an acetate strip, finishing it with dark blue sequins and overlaying the turtle, making them stand out by using foam pads.
