Tag: Ocean Theme

Using Strips from a Coordinating Paper Pad to Create a Card Background
Hello Crafty Friends! Priscilla here from Nubble Light Designs. Today I am sharing a “whale” of a fun ocean-themed birthday card. I used a coordinating paper pad from the Kat Scrappiness “Friends Under the Sea” collection to cut multiple strips of paper of various lengths to create a textured background. It turned out to be the perfect backdrop for an adorable whale image and coordinating sentiment!

I used the Kat Scrappiness Friends Under the Sea stamp set/dies and the Friends Under the Sea paper pad to make today’s card.

Click to check out all of the Kat Scrappiness paper pads HERE.

Card Details:
- Created an A2 top-folding sand colored card base.
- Cut strips of various lengths from the Friends Under the Sea paper pad.
- Adhered them to the front of the card, leaving the same distance between each strip.
- Ran the front of the card through my Big Shot machine using a bubble embossing folder from my stash to add texture.
- Stamped the whale from the Friends Under the Sea stamp set/dies onto light blue cardstock, die cut it out, and added shading with gray Copic markers.
- Stamped the sentiment “Have a Whale of a Day!” with blue ink onto the same cardstock and die cut it out with a speech bubble die from my stash.
- Adhered the whale and sentiment to the front of the card.
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Prisci lla 🐳

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May 11, 2025
Creating an Underwater Scene Card
Hello Crafty Friends! Priscilla here from Nubble Light Designs. Today I am sharing an adorable ocean-themed card for someone “Turtley Awesome” in your life. I used several Kat Scrappiness products from the “Friends Under the Sea” stamp/die/paper collection along with Kat‘s “Stitched Dolphins” and “Life Under the Sea” craft dies.

Click to check out all of Kat’s Ocean-themed products in her store.

Card Details:
- Created an A2 side-folding white card base.
- Ran a white cardstock layer through my Big Shot using a bubbled-textured embossing folder from my stash.
- Brushed on several shades of blue Distress Oxide inks over the embossed bubble background.
- Adhered the bubble layer to the card base.
- Using colored cardstock and patterned paper from the Friends Under the Sea paper pad, die cut the ocean coral and vegetation using the Kat Scrappiness Life Under the Sea Craft dies.
- Die cut blue dotted paper from the Friends Under the Sea paper pad using Kat‘s Stitched Dolphin die set.
- Stamped and die cut the turtle image from the Friends Under the sea set using the same blue dotted paper.
- Assembled and adhered all the ocean elements onto the front of the card before adding a navy stitched frame from the Underwater Adventures Craft dies.
- White heat-embossed the sentiment “You’re Turtley Awesome” onto red cardstock and foam mounted it to the top left corner of the card.
- Added several Here Fishy Fishy Sprinkles for the perfect finishing touch!
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Prisci lla 🐬

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April 19, 2025
I “Sea” It’s Your Birthday!
Happy Thursday Crafty Friends! Priscilla here from Nubble Light Designs. Today I am sharing a sea-themed birthday card featuring several Kat Scrappiness products. In addition, I created a blended back drop to set off an adorable seal image using several shades of blue Distress Oxide inks.

I used the Kat Scrappiness Friends Under the Sea stamp set and Life Under the Sea craft dies to make today’s card.

Card Details:
- Created an A2 top-folding white card base.
- Added a black cardstock layer over the card base.
- Taped off a white piece of cardstock to create an area to blend 3 shades of blue Distress Oxide inks plus black.
- Stamped the seal, fish, and sentiment from the Friends Under the Sea stamp set over the blue shaded stripe using black pigment ink.
- Die cut two seaweed plants using the Life Under the Sea craft dies and white cardstock and adhered to the bottom left side of the blue stripe.
- Added the ocean “bubbles” using 4mm Sparking Clear Droplets, 6 mm Sparking Clear Droplets, and White Diamond Sequin Mix for the finishing touch!
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Prisci lla 🐟

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April 22, 2024

Mother-Daughter Craft Day!

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the loving Moms, Grandmas, Sisters, Aunts, Mothers-In Law and anyone else taking on the awesome task of helping to raise children. In celebration of this special day, my daughter Emily and I had a Mother/Daughter craft day and we thought we’d share our fun!

The inspiration for our cards was the recent post and video Jennifer McGuire did using scraps of paper to create a fun background. This was the perfect technique to try with kids. Cutting the strips of paper was much faster and easier than I imagined. We took our color cues from two of the Kat Scrappiness Sequin Mixes. I picked out the rainbow of paper to coordinate with the Rainbow Splash Sequin Mix. Emily’s background was chosen to match the Ocean Sequin Mix.

We decided to make our shakers using the super cute How You Bean? Stamp Set and Shaker Jar Add-On Die Set both from Lawn Fawn. Emily used copic markers to color the cute little octopus from Lawn Fawn’s Octopi My Heart Stamp Set. She added the image to the front of her jar so it wouldn’t be covered up by all of her shaker goodies. The “Happy Birthday” greeting is also from the How You Bean? Stamp Set. Emily stamped it in Versamark ink, added white embossing powder, and then heat set it.

The greeting for my card is the Kat Scrappiness “Sparkle & Shine” Die. I thought this was the perfect fit with my little shaker jar full of lots of rainbow sparkle. I added a little liquid glue to the die cut and dipped it into Nuvo Pure Sheen Glitter. This gave my die cut the perfect “sparkle & shine”. Using the Gina Marie Stitched Stars Dies, I cut a small coordinating star and tied it onto the jar with matching twine. The little ” Just For You” stamp is from Lawn Fawn’s Tiny Tags Sayings Stamp Set.

Emily and I made a little process video together. I hope you enjoy it!

Happy Mother’s Day 😉

Kelley & Emily

Video:

Supplies:

Octopi My Heart Clear Stamp and Dies by Lawn Fawn	How You Bean? Shaker Add On Die by Lawn Fawn	How You Bean? Custom Craft Die by Lawn Fawn	LF Tiny Tags Sayings Clear Stamps	How You Bean? 4″X6″ Clear Stamps by Lawn Fawn
Ocean Sequin Mix – Shaker Card Fillers – NEW!	Rainbow Splash Sequin Mix – Shaker Card Fillers – NEW!	3mm White Star Confetti Mix – Shaker Card Fillers – NEW!	“Sparkle & Shine” Brush Script Word & Sentiment Die by Kat Scrappiness	Gina Marie Designs – Stitched Stars Dies
Memento Tuxedo Black Dye Ink Pad	1/4″ Acid Free ATG Tape – Fits Pink 3M Scotch ATG Guns	Tsukineko Full-Size VersaMark Clear Embossing Ink Pad	Crystal Katana Tool by Crystal Ninja – Mixed Media Pick Up Tool for Crafters!	Super Fine White Embossing Powder
Zig 2-Way Glue Pen Bulk Squeeze & Roll	Cutterpillar Pro ABS Paper Trimmer – Special Order – FREE US SHIPPING!	Uni-ball White Gel Pen	Nuvo Pure Sheen Glitter 3.38oz – Diamond	1/4″ Scor-Tape – .25″X27yd
Gina K Designs Cardstock 8.5″X11″ 12/Pkg – White	Gina K Designs Cardstock 8.5″X11″ 12/Pkg – Island Dream	Gina K Designs Cardstock 8.5″X11″ 12/Pkg – Prime Time	Gina K Designs Cardstock 8.5″X11″ 12/Pkg – Black Onyx