SSS Friend Link You Blog Hop, Ocean Horizon Cover

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Happy Friday!  Today I'm hoping along with Simon Says Stamp celebrating the Friend Like You release.  You should be arriving here from Sandi MacIver's blog.  

As with all good blog hops, there are prizes to be had.  Simon is giving away a $25 store credit to a commenter at each stop along the hop, and, all orders of Friend Like You products this weekend will receive the You 2 set pictured above free.

OK, on to the cards.  Today I'm showing off my Ocean Horizon cover place.  This cuts a frame and all the individual pieces for the design with no webbing between.

My first two cards feature the full design using watercolors.  For this first card, I die cut a panel of watercolor cardstock, and then painted each of the pieces using my Kuretake Gansai watercolors, finishing the card off with a sentiment strip from the Foundations set.

Next, I embossed the cover plate onto another panel of watercolor paper.

Using the embossed lines as guidelines, I then watercolored the panel.  While the lines were used as guides, I did not try to stay within those lines, allowing the colors to mix from section to section.

The white embossed sentiment, from the Beachy Keen set, was die cut and popped it up over my panel.

For these next two cards, I used just a portion of the design.

For the card on the left, I used just the 'sun' portion of the design, cutting the layers from different pieces of colored cardstock, and adhering them to a panel of turquoise cardstock.  The Hello Sunshine sentiment was cut three times, adhered together, and then to the card panel.  

I added a reverse sentiment strip from the Reverse Chill Summer set to round out the sentiment, as well as a black mat to set the panel off  a bit.

For the card on the right, I used three shades of yellow for the sun portions, and three shades of blue for the water portions. As with the first card, I used a sentiment from the Reverse Chill Summer sentiment strips and black mat completed the look.

For this last card, I decided to think outside the box a bit.  I used several of the sun layers to create a rainbow.  The layers were popped up with foam tape, and weren't nested perfectly together, but slightly offset for a more whimsical look.  

I used a sentiment from the Reverse Sunshine and Rainbows sentiment strips for this one.

That's all for me today. Your next stop on the hop is Lorraine Aquilina, and I have the full hop list below.

Don't forget to leave a commenet to be interested to the $25 store credit, and enjoy the hop!

Simon Says Stamp Blog
Caly Person
Nichol Spohr
Amy Rysavy
Debby Hughes
Emily Midgett
Lisa Addesa
Sandi MacIver
Miriam Prantner
Lorraine Aquilina
Kath Stewart
Barb Engler
Carly Minner
Hanh Nguyen
Mary Reiner
Enza Gudor