Adorable. I love the message in the bottle, and all the punching and cutting, including cricut and hand cutting, is amazing. I love your cards. I am sure her BF loved the card.
Wonderful card, Brenda! Amazing detail - the punched/Cricut images, the coral, the message... I'm sure colleague & her BF were mightly impressed & appreciative! LOL at Dee's comment below!
WOW! I wish I was getting this wonderful, most amazing card! Very clever way to make the coral! Love the message in a bottle! Great card! But the only thing that is missing is.. ERIC!!
One of my colleagues liked my recent You Had Me at Aloha Birthday Card so much she asked me to make a card for her boyfriend. I showed her the Life Is A Beach Cricut cartridge images and she immediately identified with the sea turtle and thought the treasure chest represented her honey. I wanted as much of her input as possible, making it almost as if the card was made especially by her for him, and since I had never met him. She gave me the general idea for the design, I pieced it together, and she said the results were better than she'd imagined.
The scallop sea shells, sea horses, green sea plants, and fish are all paper punches. The bubbles and gold coins are from a hole punch. I got the idea for the coral from a lo I favorited, but I can't see to find it. The artist used the tree punch but cut off the trunk and the punch doubled as coral! Genius! I couldn't wait to try it, and would love to give her due credit. I created the wave effect with deco scissors. There's actually a message in the bottle. It contains 30 reasons my colleague treasures her man in tiny font rolled up into a scroll. I wrapped it in a piece of plastic packaging material with adhesive, pierced a bit of eraser with a pin, wrapped thread around the pin's head, dropped the thread through the scroll, and tied the other end to a button. The message in a bottle was an afterthought when we realized her list was too long to fit on the card, didn't want it inside the card, and didn't like how imbalanced it looked floating on the surface of the water. I tried to make it look like it was buried in the sand.
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