Make a Splash

This is a card I made a few weeks back after seeing some nautical cards on the Simon Says Stamp blog hop. (You can see the cards here, they're the second and third one down.)

I used markers to ink up the stamp (by Local King Rubber Stamps), and cut it out.  The lines are just blue cardstock placed over white.  The sentiment is from my mermaid Some Odd Girl set.  I used pop dots to add the octopus to the card.  I like the card, but I'm not sure what occasion I'd give it out for.  Maybe a play/performance? (based on the sentiment).

Calm Seas

This is a card I made for my dad a few years ago.  It was done after a trip to the Creativ Festival in Toronto, where I picked up a ton of shaped buttons. :)

Originally I had high waves in the water, but wisely smoothed them out as they didn't quite fit the sentiment I was going for (smooth sailing).  The birds were leftover curls from one of my punches and the score lines for the insert frame were added with a stylus and a metal stencil I also got at that show.