In the Wild Challenge

Happy Friday! Yay!!

It's time for another challenge on STAMP SOMETHING! This week the theme is "In the Wild!" Make us a project using nature or wildlife stamps, use natural materials, or anything that you can think of that has to do with wildlife.

As a special treat we also have a guest designer this week, Laura Kirste Campbell of Layers of Color. Laura donated a fabulous stamp set for our blog candy too!

This is the card I made for the challenge this week. I used one of the stamp sets available on Layers of Color called Under the Sea. These are awesome clear acrylic stamps which are super easy to use.

I used Groovy Guava cardstock for the base of my card. I used the Swirls embossing folder and my Cuttlebug on the White cardstock layer. I think the swirls are reminiscent of waves.

For the image layer, I used a piece of Groovy Guava cardstock cut out with Scalloped Rectangle Nestabilities and dotted with a white gel pen, then added a layer of Blush Blossom cardstock over that. The images are on White cardstock and stamped with guava and blush ink. I added white embossing powder to the mimic pearls on the guava coral. The seahorse image is stamp with guava ink and colored in with a blush marker. I then used a Versamarker and iridescent ice embossing powder to make him shimmer.

The final touches are Sherbet Originals ribbon, a hat pin and beads, and a hodgepodge hardware oval frame with brads. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up!'s Short and Sweet set.

Thanks for looking, hope you'll hop on over to STAMP SOMETHING and stamp something wild with us today! Have a great weekend, happy stamping!! :)