Have a Fintastic Day

Hello again! Hope all is well with everyone. Or at least better than it has been with me for the past few days. Anyway, this card was totally an experiment and I just kind of kept making it up as I went along. But, I will be entering it into 3 contests:
1.  Outlawz Twisted Thursday: Beach theme
2.  Birdie Brown: July Freebie Challenge
3. 3 Girl JAM: Shape card with Ribbon

Here's the card. There is a lot going on, so this might be a lengthy post:

I'm going to start with the easy stuff. All papers were either from Recollections or they were just plain white cardstock I buy by the ream at Walmart. Can't beat 150 pieces of cardstock for less than $6.

The sand dollar, the sea shell, and the starfish were all free coloring pages.  I printed them on plain white cardstock and colored them with oil pencils.

The sand is 2 different layers of Kraft card stock that I cut using the Cricut cartridge Paper dolls for every day. When this is cut, there are some wavy cut lines and small dots cut in the card stock. I chose to go over those cuts with a brown sharpie. I then inked the edges with Early Espresso ink from Stampin' Up. I adhered the first layer to the bucket, then adhered the star fish, then the second sand layer then the sand dollar and sea shell.

The bucket is from the Cricut cartridge Ultimate Creative series. I it was actually a bucket on a stool. I cut the stool off. Then the bucket was a little too short, so I used it as a stencil so I could add some length to it.

The handle is a piece of floral wire with blue bakers twine wrapped around it.

I didn't have a shovel, so I piece one together with assorted shapes.

The dolphin and the sentiment are free digital stamps for the month of July at Birdie Brown.

The whole thing was then adhered to a bucket shaped card. That's the inside of the card flipped up so  you can see that the sand and shells are actually above the actual card.


I really do think it turned out quite cute. I hope you like it.

Have a good one!

Miranda