Sea Scene Love ~ CCMC444, SIP85

Hello stampers and welcome to another week's challenge at Create with Connie and Mary!  I'm also entering my card in Stamp Ink Paper love challenge.  Although it isn't a lovey or valentine's theme, there are so many things that I love wrapped up in this one card.  I love a beachy, ocean scene.  I just got home from a week long cruise to the Bahamas so this is totally inspired by my trip.  The water in the Bahamas is a little more turquoise blue, but hey, I adapted for our color challenge!

One of my other loves on this card is the hardwood stamp.  I adore the rustic, ocean wood feel it adds.  I also love a good window scene.  The window thinlit provides such a nice frame for the ocean view.  Another of my faves....the brayered sky.  I love the graduated color it adds.   

I like to browse the catalog for layout inspiration and this card was inspired by the card in the bottom right picture on page 128.  I like this layout and will be using it again!

I started this card by stamping a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of Crumb cake with the Hardwood stamp inked with Crumb Cake.  I sponged the sides of it as well.  Then I stamped the grass and birds from the new set {High Tide} on the bottom and top of the piece, inked again in Crumb Cake.  It's very subtle.  

Next I laid a 3" x 3 5/8" of Peekaboo Peach DSP over the Hardwood piece.  I took a strip of burlap ribbon and applied it across the center, then I secured the entire piece onto a Crumb Cake card base.  

For the window, I started with a piece of 2 1/2" x 3 1/4" of very vanilla cardstock.  I stamped the water from {High Tide} in Dapper Denim across the bottom.  I then inked up my brayer with Peekaboo Peach and ran it back and forth across the top to create the sky.  I stamped the sun in Peekaboo Peach as well, and then I partially inked the birds from {High Tide} in Crumb Cake and stamped them in the sky too.  

I adhered the window (cut from the Hearth and Home Thinilit from a scrap of Dapper Denim) with some Tombo glue.  

Lastly, inked up the sentiment with Peekaboo Peach and Dapper Denim markers and stamped it on a 1 5/8" x 2" piece of very vanilla.  I used the ticket corner punch to notch out the corners.  I stamped one little seabird in the corner with Crumb Cake ink before adhering the the bottom corner of my card.

Stamps: High Tide, Hardwood

Ink: Peekaboo Peach, Crumb Cake, Dapper Denim

Paper: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Dapper Denim and Peekaboo Peach DSP

Accessories: Ticket corner punch, Hearth and Home thinlit, burlap ribbon

We hope you can join us for this weeks challenge at CCMC!  

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny