Seaside Wishes for FMS 651

 The sketch at Freshly Made Sketches was just too tempting this week, especially since I was looking for inspiration to try out yet more new things!

Sometimes I'm my own worst enemy. I love sea themed sets. I love hybrid embossing folders. So why ever thought that I did NOT need to have the Seaside Wishes bundle is something the completely escapes me. I saw it in the annual catalogue and tried to exercise restraint.... which held until about three weeks ago when I finally ordered it. Now that it's arrived, I'm calling myself six kinds of fool for delaying so long! 😀

Here is my first outing with it....

The first thing I noticed is that the hybrid folder is wonderful all on its own, as you see in the white panel. I did a second pass and using the dies to get the sand dollar in the cluster, which I cut from Basic White and sponged with Misty Moonlight. The second thing I noticed was how realistic the embossed sand dollars look.

The third thing I swooned over was the lacy die cuts, which I cut from Basic White and sponged with Misty Moonlight (larger) and Pool Party(smaller).

It paired up a treat with DSP from the Country Woods collection which, despite the name, has quite a weathered beach feel to many of the papers. For embellishment, I added in a trio of blue gems from the Tinsel Gem Three Pack.

And did I mention there's a splatter stamp in the set? Who doesn't love a splatter stamp! Plus there are some textured rocks that haven't seen ink yet but I'm itching to try them out too.

I think I'm going to have some fun with this set! Watch this space for more experimentation!

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