Watercolour Seahorse

(Catchupmageddon Post). Another chance to play around with my Gansai Tambi Watercolours but this time I was trying to paint some seahorses and an underwater scene!

I had several attempts at each part of this scene, background, seahorse 1 & 2 and the shell. I then selected the best of them to fussy cut and create the card.

Because this was a 30th  Anniversary card I added a pearl to the shell. I tried attaching the greeting using staples, I love how it looks when other people do it but I'm not sure it looked great with this card. Font is Coneria Script.

I wasn't happy with this card but didn't really know what was wrong or how to fix it at the time. Now I look at it and see lots of ways to improve it, hindsight is a great thing!

98778 Butterfly Heart

I've been using my Butterfly Heart (98778) die from Memory Box again, it makes such a simple but classy anniversary card I can't resist it! It also cuts extremely well, cleanly and there are no fiddly bits to push out afterwards!

I've used it for silver, pearl (see below) and ruby anniversaries so far but think it would make a lovely wedding or valentine card. Next time I want to have a go at a multi-coloured version which involves a bit of cutting out, but having seen some of the effects via pinterest I am really impressed.

Apparently the Memory Box Cupid Heart Die 98281 works well with it too.

Thank you Helen for buying me this butterfly heart goodness. :)