Vera Lane Seagulls Encouragement Card

As I mentioned in my last post I have some new Vera Lane digis to play with and this is the first card I'm posting with them. I have a family member who's a bit down in this moment and thought I'd do something to let her know I'm thinking of her and perhaps cheer her up, hence this humorous card featuring Vera Lane's Seagulls digis and sentiment. I used the PNG versions and layered these four digis. I masked the lines around the bottom of the wooden post so it wouldn't look as if it was in water and drew a line behind the images to ground them with a Unipin .05 black fine line pen.

The paper is from a new Craft ID As Free as the Ocean paper pad I picked up at our local grocery store. You wouldn't think you'd find such nice paper in a grocery store, but they surprise me sometimes. This is a small pad measuring 11.5cm x 16.5cm, but by layering the papers just right I was able to make them work on this 15cm square card. This is the fourth time I've used one of these starfish embellishments (here are #1 a Pisces birthday card, #2 a summer penguin birthday card, and #3 a Merry Fishmas card). I wouldn't have thought it when I bought them, but they've worked out quite well. I'm getting low, I may have to start rationing. 

Supply List
Paper – cardstock, Craft ID As Free as the Ocean paper pad

Digital stamp and sentiment  – Vera Lane Studio Seagulls

Dies – Die-namics square stax
Embellishments – starfish
Caran d'Ache Luminance 901 pencils
Art-n-Fly white pen

Unipin .05 black fine line pen

I'm linking up with the following challenges: Daring Cardmakers 26/04 – Something Old, Something New (old – dies, starfish/new – paper, digis), Alphabet Challenge 19/04 – B is for Birds, Polkadoodles Wk 17 – ATG, Crafting Happiness #172 – Way Up High, Allsorts Week 778 – ATG, Gem of a Challenge Wk 8 – ATG, and Sweet Stampin' 27/04 – Animals.