Ocean Greeting!

 Hello Everyone:  I imagine everyone is trying to get their last beach visits in before school starts and the seasons change (unless you live in Florida or California)!  Time for an Ocean Greeting card filled with lovely seashells and a seahorse!

These wonderful stamps filled with words are called Topography stamps. " Typographic Art is the artistic arrangement of type in a readable and visually appealing way - shapes with words."  I have used Creative Impressions cling stamp U116 which has all three images side by side with the words "By the Sea, By the Sea" under them.

I embossed the three images separately onto scrap cardstock using different colors and then cut them out.  I adhered the three images together vertically, wrapping the seahorse's tail around the starfish, and set them aside.  Then I used a scrap of our Cork Paper (89000), tearing it into  a thinner piece, and adhered that to a piece of patterned paper previously adhered to a dark aqua mat.  I then hand cut some "sea grass" out of the same color cardstock as the mat and glued it onto the cork paper in different spots.  To finish this part I wrapped some of our Natural Thin Twine (80604) around the card panel and tied a large bow.  Now it was time to adhere the images onto the cork.

I stamped a sentiment from Creative Impressions Set YCC201 Floral Birthday onto the same patterned paper, cut it out and matted it with a piece of the aqua cardstock.  I added some orange and white mini Rounds onto each corner and adhered the sentiment to the card, adding another natural twine bow underneath.

I hope you like this card and will be inspired to create your own Ocean Greeting!  

Susan