Ocean Mosaic

Mornin' y'all!  We survived our random snow day yesterday and there's just a few tiny patches of it left in our backyard right now.  And I managed to make a card to share today!

I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

I'll be honest, I did NOT like this sketch when I first saw it and I thought no way I could do anything with it.  Then I was looking through some other challenges and my brain joined the chat (hello brain, always nice to have you here) and ideas started percolating and I came up with a card that I think I like.  And that's why I do challenges, they help push my creativity.

Anyway, here's one of the challenges that helped with that, courtesy of Festive Friday:

I have blue (Coastal Cabana), brown (Crumb Cake), pearls, a fish, one shell, and some seaweed so I think I did pretty well with this list.  What crystallized my card idea was the TGIF color challenge:

I thought they went perfectly with the ocean theme of the Festive Friday challenge.  I punched out a bunch of squares of Coastal Cabana cardstock to start with, stamped my seaweed on them, and then sponged some ink around the edges of the squares before I adhered them to the Crumb Cake card base.  I did start out with a seahorse for the main image (I love the seahorse from Ocean Commotion), but he looks to the left and with where the greeting was supposed to go, I needed a sea creature facing to the right.  So fish it is!  He looks kinda red in the picture, but I assure you he's Melon Mambo.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Ocean Commotion, All-Year Cheer I
Ink:  Crumb Cake, Coastal Cabana, Melon Mambo
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Melon Mambo, Basic White
Accessories:  1 1/4" square punch, Dimensionals, pearls

And here's what our backyard looked like as of six o'clock last night, almost all the snow gone.  It'll be in the 60s today so that was just a weird "And another thing!" left over from winter, all the weirder because we got so little snow over the actual winter this year.  Time to get Ryan off to school...cheers, y'all!