.....To continue on with what we have just discussed. I have added a couple cards I have already made with using the same die to cut the focal but totally different color schemes and orientations.

Card #1
This is a 5 x 6 1/2 inch card with the fold at the top of the card. The 'Congratulations' was dry embossed and then lightly inked with a soft blue to emphasis. The background paper is a light beige allover design, with a torn piece at the bottom right of sand design paper. The die cut shells are out of silver ripple specialty paper backed with a blue peacock specialty paper. Underneath the shells I have wrapped and tied in a bow some jute thread. The seaweed is a leaf from another die which I thought went together rather well. The shells are popped up with dimensional's.

Card #2
This also is a 5 x 6 1/2 inch card with the fold on the left side of card. It was covered in a blue water paper then the sand was torn, inked and placed on the left side under the large conch shell which is cut from silver hammered specialty paper and back with navy shimmer specialty paper. Another piece of sand design paper was torn and placed on the right to look like a small dune. It has been raised on dimensional's. The smaller shell is placed on that with seaweed placed around. The sentiment is stickers or dazzles in white. The same two focal dies but totally different looks.
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