Brooke's One, Ocean Fun!

My cousin's granddaughter turned one last month and celebrated with a fun ocean themed party. This is the card I came up with...always have such fun cutting and piecing together the cute ocean creatures from Cricut's Lifes A Beach cartridge!

Thought this would be a great time to finally try out Ryemilan's pop up Shadowbox card. If you hop on over to her blog, Ryemilan's Ramblings and do a search for "shadowbox" you'll get to see the different ones she's created...each one so darned cute! If you look closely, you'll see that this type of shadowbox card is just a twist on Kim Score's Pop Up Stage card with a window cut out...so clever!

For mine, I chose to use an oval cut out window with my ocean friends and fauna from Cricut Lifes A Beach cartridge. Little mermaid is from Cricut Once Upon A Princess cartridge and birthday cake is from the Cottage Cutz Celebration Cake die. Inside the shadow box I used strips of clear acetate to pop up a few of the fish and the turtle for some added fun dimension and movement.

Had so much fun putting this together! Can't wait to give this one a try again soon...

BTW, have you heard? Sister Stamps is celebrating their 2nd year Birthday Anniversary this week! How time flies! To celebrate, Sister Stamps is introducing four brand new stamps in their Anniversary Release #15. Sure hope you'll have a chance stop in to visit the Sister Stamps blog this week to join in the celebration as Jenny introduces the adorable new stamp images and get yourself entered in random giveaways! Then, if you'll come back here on Thursday, I'll have a project to share featuring stamps from the Anniversary Release...hope to see you then!