Hello! Christina here to share one last ocean-themed card with you before we move into some festive holiday cardmaking. For this project, I created a mini slimline card using the Block Print Dancing Crabs dies. These little guys are clawing around on a simple beach background full of sparkle and splatter. Let’s dive into this fun beach scene!
To start, I trimmed a piece of kraft cardstock to fit my mini slimline card base. The bases I use measure 6 ½ x 3 ⅛ inches, so that’s what I started with. Then I used a simple wave border to die-cut the water from Pool Party cardstock. Next, I pulled out my Distress Inks to blend in some shadows around the edges of both pieces. I also added some ink to the kraft cardstock where the water border will be. After blending in the ink, I also splattered both pieces with more of the Distress Inks as well as some sparkly Mica Stains in coordinating colors and white splatter medium. After a short dry time, I attached the water border to the kraft cardstock and moved on to die-cutting the Dancing Crabs.
I die-cut the crab pieces from white cardstock and then ink blended each piece with multiple colors before also splattering them with more of the same ink colors. This will bring these little guys to life by adding depth and texture to the pieces. After assembling the crabs, I attached them to my card front with foam squares.
I finished my card design by adding a Hugs Vintage Sentiment diecut and a heat-embossed sub-sentiment using the Poppy Stamps Sentimental Banners set.
Thank you for checking out my mini slimline card featuring a fun beach scene I created using the Block Print Dancing Crabs die set. See you again soon!
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