Tropical Fish by Robin Smalley

Ink your stamp (Stamp Camp) with VersaMark in and stamp onto glossy cardstock. Brayer with Big and Juicy “Waterfall" inkpad. Attach the glossy layer to a black card.  

Under the Sea by Mary Drinkwater

Mount water look background paper onto white cardstock.

Stamp the fish and grass images (TAC) onto white cardstock and emboss. Enhance with coordinating markers.  Cut out and attach images to front of card. 

With double sided tape attach glass half beads as air bubbles.

Shaving Cream Mermaid card by Betty McCommon

Create shaving cream background (click here for directions.)

Stamp Mermaid frame on created background in VersaFine ink.

Coat the entire piece in VersaMark ink and dip into clear embossing powder.  Heat and repeat this process two or three times to give the piece a glossy, water look. 

“Notch” punch coordinating blue cardstock and mount your main piece onto it.

Stamp Mermaid Fairy with Black StazOn ink onto white shrink plastic.  Cut around bottom edge and punch 2 holes on the top.  Carefully dab green and flesh tone chalks on image.  Heat to shrink your piece and then edge with a gold leafing pen.  String blue jute through shrunken piece and tie the ends to blue square brads on bottom of mermaid frame as shown.  Mount to green card base as shown. All stamps by Third Coast stamps

By the Sea by Annette Lanker

Cut a 6x10 piece of white matte cardstock to create a card base, fold it in half creating a 3x5 card.  Using Memories black ink stamp your image (unknown) twice on white matte cardstock.  Color one crab and the insect images using watercolor pencils and an H2O brush.  Trim closely around the colored crab and the insect and mount with foam tape onto the other uncolored image to create your focal piece.  Using watercolor pencils and an H2O brush, color the O on the focal piece and then add a transparent pale blue embellishment over top.  Tear around the edges of the piece. Set aside.  Mount a piece of mauve cardstock ~2-7/8 x 4-7/8 onto the card base.  Add a strip of decorative paper on the left side and then mount your focal image on the card.  Add some coordinating fibers on the left hand side for a finished look.

Under the Sea Shells Bernardine Farmer

On a 4-1/4” x 5-1/2” piece light gray cardstock, stamp Tiger Print (Stampabilities) with a Brilliance Mediterranean Blue inkpad, restamp with Brilliance Sky Blue inkpad slightly off center from the first stamping to give you a wave motion.

Stamp Abstract Shell (Eureka), with VersaFine onyx black ink pad.  Tint stamped image with Art Quest Stargazer watercolors – Stellar Green and Quasar Blue and trim edges with decorative wave scissors.  Attach to an 8-1/2” x 5-1/2 folded medium blue cardstock

Tear edges of 4-1/4” x 5-1/2” Sonama brown cardstock, tear inside of cardstock too, to make a frame about a ½” wide.  Use adhesive to attach frame to Abstract Shell image.  Some of the edges of the seashell image will be exposed.

Using VersaFine onyx black ink pad, stamp the Stamp Rosa’s three seashell image, three times on Sonoma brown cardstock.  Trim the images.

Cut a 4-3/4” x 1-1/2” piece of Magenta gold webbing. Put a slit down the middle and insert the three seashell images.   Adhere to the left side of the card.

Happy Birthday by Robin Smalley

Stamp bubble stamp (Rubber Stampede) with VersaMark ink onto blue cardstock. Take a Coluzzle and cut the waves on the bottom 1/3 of your blue layer.

Stamp fish and star fish (Stampin’ Up!), color with markers then glue into place.

Stamp Happy Birthday (Print Works) onto a blue panel and attach to an orange panel.

Use foam tape on the back of the orange panel and secure to the top blue panel and then affix blue layer to a yellow card.