CottageCutz: Under the Sea

Hi, Lois here with a fun card today. As you may or may not know, CottageCutz recently released a whole series of word dies -- 35 in all. Check them out in the CottageCutz store. I had such fun making my card for today, and I used one of the word dies -- discover -- on it. I'm a big fan of underwater scenery, and that's what I created today.

To start my card, I cut a piece of heavyweight teal-colored cardstock 5 1/2" x 11", scored in half. Then I cut a piece of navy cardstock 5 1/4" square and a piece of swirly bluegreen patterned paper 5 1/8" square.

Most of the die-cuts on my card come from one single die, Under the Sea -- plus the Clown Fish (which may be currently out-of-stock) die and the Seahorse die -- as well as the word die.

After cutting the pieces, I added some color shading using Copic markers.

Then I went about constructing my scene. That was really a lot of fun. The inset pieces on the seahorse and clown fish were cut from cardstock on which I had already applied some adhesive backing, so inlaying them into the outlines was pretty easy once I had glued down the fish and seahorse onto the card.