Day At The Beach

Hello All,

Today is our new challenge at the "Dies R Us" challenge blog....

The theme is "A Day At The Beach"

I had some fun with this one as I used some "NBUS" (never before used stuff)

and some of my newest dies purchased from "Dies R Us".....

I stamped my Our Daily Bread "The Sea" stamp on to watercolor paper

and hauled out my TH Distress markers and preceded to "watercolor"....

Once I was happy with how it looked, I added Stickles for a bit of "sparkle"...

I love this stamp, it is so easy to color and think it will make great "guy" cards!!

After mounting my finished "watercolor" on black card stock,

I decided I wanted a "3D" effect"....

that is where the dies came in....

I cut my Cheery Lynn Designs Lighthouses twice....

one from white and then sponged on grey ink, but also one from black card stock

and stacked it slightly "offline" to give it a bit of shadow.

Next I cut my Impression Obsession Sea Birds and while I had the grey ink out

I sponged them as well!!

Last I used Impression Obsession Shell set for my shells....

the Starfish was cut from a scrap and the shells I sponged ink on.....

 The entire finished piece was slightly elevated using foam tape onto

a background paper called "Ocean Breeze"

All of the dies above may be purchased at

Dies R Us

which offers an everyday discount on all your dies!!

Entering in the following challenges:
Cardz Fir Guyz ....  At The Beach
and
Artistic Inspiration .... Anything Goes
and
Crafty Cardmakers .... Under The Sea
and
Amusing Challenge .... Watercolor
and
Allsorts Challenge .... Splish-Splash-Splosh
and
Crafty Calender .... Summertime Fun