Michelle’s seahorse scene card is clean and simple and really wonderful with tone’s of calming blues and purples. She used dies to create her images, adding ink blending to them for extra color and shading. There’s a die cut stamped sentiment tag and clear gems are perfect for making little bubbles! Visit the Altenew blog for all the details.
Do you love the Sea as much as a I do? I love going to the beach, walking on the sand, swimming in the waves and collecting seashells, it’s the best way to spend a Summer day. But even if you can’t get to the Ocean you can still capture all those beautiful scenes on your handmade cards. Cards featuring the sea and beach are ideal for Summer Birthdays, Bon Voyage, Thinking of You, Anniversary or just about any occasion, so let’s take a look at some fresh Ocean-y cards ideas, I can almost smell that amazing Sea air!
Carol’s card is perfect for anyone retiring by the sea. She used stencils and inking for the background and dies for the rocks and light house with a stamped sentiment. But the best part is when the button is pushed the lighthouse actually lights up! Learn more at the Honey Bee Stamps blog.
I know Mermaids aren’t real but I love them and because Mer-May just finished there’s lots of terrific Mermaid card ideas right now. Steph’s card is adorable with a stamped scene featuring a little girl getting a surprise seashell gift from a mermaid. Notice how she pulled colors from the striped pattern paper into her coloring, such a nice color combo! Take a closer peek at the Stampingbella blog.
Lauren’s lovely card has seashells by the seashore on a design that uses lots of different techniques. She created sand and sea with ink smooshing, Perfect Pearls and splatter on cardstock with paper tearing for the waves. She also heat embossed the sentiment and shells, adding watercolor to the shells. Find directions at Ranger Ink.
This stunning under the sea shaker card has a die cut and splattered blue base filled with fun shell and star confetti inside the shaker and a darling die cut turtle swimming by with gems added for shiny bubbles. Find this and loads more card ideas with this set at the Spellbinders blog.
Rena’s spectacular seagull card has an amazing background with big sun rays and splashy ocean waves created with multiple stencils and Distress Inks with a white gel pen for highlights. The cute stamped seagull is sitting on a pier stump wearing a sailor hat with a speech bubble sentiment. I spotted this idea on the Whimsy Stamps Instagram page.
Mary’s perfect Palm Tree card is simple and easy. There’s a die cut tree and beach in an arched frame on the front panel with colorful sunset inspired pattern paper and a sweet sticker sentiment that are actually on the inside of the card for an interesting design twist. Take a closer look at the Stamps N Lingers blog.
Tina combines stamping, stenciling and die cutting to create lots of tiny scenes inside each section of her trendy faux postage card. Pops of colorful cardstocks stand out against the silhouette ocean scenes and drops of liquid pearl create tiny bubble embellishments. Find more info at the Waffle Flower blog.
Bea’s fun friends at the beach card has the stamped gals colored in with Copic Markers and a funny sentiment. She created the sand and sky with die cutting, ink blending and ink splatter adding two die cut palm trees with inked trunks too. Find all the details at the Unity Stamps blog.
Kelly created stunning bold backgrounds to go behind her silhouetted sail boats. Using Distress Oxide inks she blended on the colors then added white paint splatter and shimmery spritz for some shine. The boats, waves and clouds were die cut and placed over the wonderful backgrounds. Find directions at the Papertrey Ink blog.
Halaina’s under water card uses stamps and dies from Lawn fawn for a fun scuba diver and sub with a puny sentiment among all the cool ocean life. I love the softer colors she used, they create a very serene sea scene! I came across her idea at the Treasured Ink Instagram page.
I love the overhead ariel view of Amy’s beach card! She used a combo of stamping and die cutting for the beach and waves adding the bold umbrellas cut from red, yellow and white cardstocks. Notice how the seashells and sentiment are in the same blue as the water, they blend together nicely without clashing in the design and helps the umbrellas really pop too. Learn more at the Stamp with Amy K. blog.
I hope you’ve been transported to the sea with these wonderful card designs and are ready to take a dip in the ocean and try some of these ideas soon yourself!
-Heather
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