Catching up slowly...

Another sea themed card but rather different for my daughter.  The central image is by Creative Stamps and the single dolphins at the top by Rubber Stampede; the panel was coloured many years ago using (I think) various Ranger Color Washes and I added some sponged ink to make it more marine blue and less grass green. The patterned piece at the bottom is a strip of blue holographic plastic - I bought several strips long ago when a craft shop was closing down and don't think I've ever seen it since (one of those 'must haves' that goes out of fashion as quickly as it comes in). I punched the top edge with a Martha Stewart punch whose name escapes me and then added clear gems as bubbles. To be quite honest, I really struggled to make a card at this time and was thankful that it turned out even half decent.

Two weeks later I was still struggling to create and I 'cheated' with an easy cut-and-stick design for my niece's birthday, using images from Making Cards magazine. I had two pretty background papers in my stash and with the use of old and new Spellbinder dies the card came together quite satisfactorily.

Finally, there was yet another Golden Wedding celebrated by friends (I think that's 6 in about 18 months). Using the trusty Centre Step template by Get in Shape, a couple of Memory Box dies and a couple more Spellbinders for the aperture and trim, a sheet of pale gold card for the base and another of matt gold for the images, the entire card came together in about half an hour. That was after a dummy run which proved the difficulty of attaching those very fine flower stems securely but invisibly, and the advantage of having an aperture edge behind which some good old fashioned sticky tape is concealed!