Seaside Adventures with AHSC #621

Update:  Top Three Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #621

A big thanks to Brandi for entering my card into the AHSC #621 challenge when I was late getting it entered.  Also a big shout out to the Admin team for choosing my card along with Brigits Easter Eggs and Deb Horst's Blueberry design as Top Three Badge Winners for this Challenge.  You made my day!  So appreciated! I loved all the card entries!  

Penny Hanuszak
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This week's sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge was designed by Michelle. This sketch is a throwback to when this challenge blog first started. Over the coming months they will be doing a look back at those old sketches on the third Monday of each month and will post a new challenge based on one from that time period.  Here is the latest challenge: 

Here's My Card: 

The circles on this sketch had me thinking of bubbles and fish so I dug through my stash until I found some cute fish stamps and went to work on a summery seaside card. I hope you like my interpretation of the sketch.  

Supplies:

Stamp Set and Dies:

• Seaside Shore #141625 (R)
• Shore Thing (R)
• Friendly Seagulls #164961

Cardstock and DSP:

• Card Base in Whisper White 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" scored at 4 1/4" and 
• 5" x 3 3/4" for front matte, scraps of white for fish and seaweed.
• Petunia Pop Matte 5 3/8" x 4 1/8"
• Summer Splash 5 1/4" x 4" 

Ink:

• Summer Splash for sentiment
• Pool Party for water and bubbles
• Crumb Cake for Sand
• Petunia Pop, Orchid Oasis, Peach Pie for large fish
• Blends for seaweed, small fish and star fish:  Granny Apple Green, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Just Jade, Mango Melody

Accessories:

• Scissors for fussy cutting fish
• Stickles for Sparkle on fish
• Adhesive and Dimensionals
• Iridescent Faceted Gems 

If you've ever snorkeled in an area with tropical fish, you've probably been amazed at all the activity below the surface. There are big fish, teeny tiny fish and they all seem to be going in different directions.  I used that concept for creating the scene for this card.  I only had a few stamp sets with seaside images to use for my design. 

The larger fish, bubbles and seaweed were from a retired Stampin' Up! set called Seaside Shore. The cute little crab was from another retired set called Shore Thing. When it came to the small green fish I used a stamp from a very old set that had a school of fish in a square. I wanted them to be individual and look like they were swimming amongst the bigger fish, so I coloured them and then fussy cut each of the images out.  Yikes that was time consuming! I also used Stickles to add some sparkle to these little fishies, the seaweed and two of the larger fish.

Well that's it for this week's post, which was somewhat out of my comfort zone, however was fun to make.  I hope you enjoyed it and will leave me a comment about your snorkeling experiences and the most colourful fish you spotted. Cheers and have a good week.   

Happy Stamping!

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Penny Hanuszak, CDN Stampin' Up! Demo since 2006