Shellibrate!

Turtles and birthdays?  Sure! 
Inspired by my coworker and the East Coast Current - Totally tubular, dude!
(Disclaimer: Please do NOT get be a turtle for my birthday)

The Ingredients:

Cardstock: Bazzil White

Paper: Blue scraps

Stamps: The {Stamps} of Life - turtle2love

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Chipped Sapphire, Black Soot; Adirondak - Sailboat Blue

Embellish: Blue Buttons

Adhesive: 3M Adhesive Transfer Tape; PopDots

Tools: 3M ATG 700 Gun; Fiskars cutting board; Martha Stewart Score Pal; Inkssentials - Blending Block and Foam; Scrap paper for masking; Scotch Tape; Post-Its

The Recipe:

1. Go to Unscripted Sketches and check out Sketch # 164!

2. Select color scheme. This week: Just keep swimmin'.

3. Cut White paper to 7x10" and score to make 5x7" card.

4.  Cut strips of scratch paper (I just used copy paper) into 1" strips.  Carefully mask the edges so that you get a straight-line border.  Hint: Use Post-It notes to keep the card from moving and Scotch Tape to tape the mask paper to the Teflon sheet.

5.  Use the foam blender and light blue ink to make a water pattern.  Start from the outside on the scratch paper first and blend inward towards the center of your card.

6.  Stamp the turtles in black in desired patterned (think East Coast Current) and then shell design in dark blue.  Design Hint: make one of them a different pattern so it stands out!

7.  Ink the blue scrap paper and adhere diagonally.  Add buttons to embellish.

8.  Stamp sentiment in upper right-hand corner to balance.

9.  Voila!  A Gnarly Card fit for shellibrating. 

10. Get creative and make it your own! Post to your blog, link to Unscripted Sketches and leave a comment here!

Thank you for joining me today!