Coral Reefs

When in London we visited the Natural History Museum (My favourite place on Earth!) and went to the Coral Reefs exhibition. I expected there to be more fish than just the one tank, but I did enjoy learning more about coral habitats, and I find dead stuff in jars fascinating...

I'm really happy with this layout. I tried to give it lots of texture, and I'm glad I finally got to use the gorgeous backing paper.

The backing paper has glitter already on it, so I added to this by putting glitter glue onto the raised parts of the embossed green card.

I made my own texture paste again but used blue and green acrylic paint instead of white. I also added some glitter for a subtle sparkle.

Products used:

My Mind's Eye Speciality cardstock

Scrapberry stencil

Hot Off The Press Wind & Waves embossing folder

Crate Paper frame

K&Co film strip sticker

DCWV Hey Sailor! topper

Something a little different..!

A few months ago I was inspired to have a go at some embroidery. I took one of my drawings, of a pair of Mandarinfish, and transferred it onto some fabric and stitched it. I coloured the background with a soft pastel. 

It's something I've had on the go to do in between other projects, but yesterday I finally finished it. It's not bad to say I've not done anything like this before.

(I do want to make the border a bit more interesting, though)

On Saturday it was mine and Nathan's 4-year anniversary! I KNOW. We went to The Deep and it was FANTASTIC. Printed off my favourite snaps and made an anniversary page and an aquarium page using my new Grace Taylor scrapbook kit! The colours are so lovely!