Just Us Girls challenge #714

Good morning friends; I hope you're all doing ok and having a great week.  I'm sharing my third guest designer card for the Just Us Girls challenge. 

This week we have a beautiful mood board to work with:

Isn't that a dreamy collage of loveliness!  You can be inspired by the images, the colours, the patterns, whatever takes your fancy.  I loved everything but my eye was drawn to the shells and the colours.  This is what I came up with:

a closer look:

and here are the shells:

of course I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting my arch die from a white panel 3 3/4" x 5" and put it aside.  I took another white panel cut a teeny bit smaller; used a scallop stencil and some purple and teal inks and ink blended a background.  Once I removed the stencil I went back over the ink blended background with the same inks to soften the white so it wasn't so stark.  I added foam tape behind the arch panel and stuck that onto the ink blended panel (I could have made a shaker card but decided not too).  I then used some gem watercolours to add some splatter all over the panel.  I stamped and coloured lots of shells using purple, aqua and beige Promarkers and then fussy cut them all out.  I arranged the shells and used a piece of masking tape to keep them in place, turned them over and placed foam squares behind (with a double layer in the middle) and adhered them to the bottom of the arch.  I stamped and heat embossed the sentiments from the stamp set and die cut them with some sentiment strip dies.  I also added these to the card with foam squares.  For some extra bling I used a shimmer pen all over the shells (although it's really hard to see in the photos but they really glisten in real life).  The finished panel was added to the card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I again used the stencil and the same inks and ink blended a border at the bottom of the panel.  I stamped the cluster of shells and coloured them with Promarkers before fussy cut them out.  I added it with liquid glue to the bottom left.  I stamped a simple sentiment in the centre with black ink.  The panel was then added to the card with double sided tape.  For once this card turned out exactly as I had planned and I think it matches the mood board quite well.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Dream Valley challenge - add a sentiment

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG option Easter

Just Add Ink challenge - purple, blue/aqua, white (6 challenges max)

Seize The Birthday challenge - splatter

Stencil Fun challenge - ATG with a stencil option love/hearts

Tic Tac Toe challenge - stencil/die cut/frame

Please pop over to the challenge blog and check out the amazing creations by the very talented design team and I hope I've inspired you with my card.  I'll be back very soon with my DT card for this week's Krafty Chicks challenge but until then thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Lawn Fawn - how you bean? seashell add on stamp set

Lawn Fawn - Year 3 stamp set (for inside greeting)

Taylored Expressions - sweet scallops stencil 

Mama Elephant - B2B arches die set

Gina K Designs - large strip sentiment dies

Gina K designs - modern floral (for the tiny sentiment die)

Gina K Designs - ink pads - wild lilac, turquoise sea and white pigment ink cube

WOW! - opaque bright white super fine embossing powder

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Tonic Studios - aqua shimmer glitter gloss pen

Kuretake Gansai Tambi - gem colours palette