Make Waves with Under the Sea Cardmaking Supplies
Key Takeaways
Under-the-Sea Crafting Trends: Ocean-themed cardmaking dominates summer crafting, utilizing bright colors, layered details, and textures to replicate marine life and beach landscapes.
Top DIY Ocean Inspiration: Craft designs pull from real-world elements like sea creatures (whales, rays, sea turtles, seahorses), ocean foliage, coral reefs, and sandy shorelines.
Essential Cardmaking Supplies: Key techniques use Altenew paper crafting tools, including the Undersea Jamboree Stencil Set, Whispering Waves 3D Embossing Folder, and Coral Reef Wonders Kit.
Eco-Friendly Crafting: The Zero-Waste Beneath the Blue Die Set minimizes scrap paper by utilizing both positive and negative space in die-cutting.
Versatile Paper Crafting Techniques: Card designs incorporate multi-layer stenciling for undersea backgrounds, ink blending over 3D embossing folders, and clean-and-simple (CAS) rainbow stamping.
There’s something magical about the ocean during summertime. The sparkling blue water, colorful coral reefs, playful sea creatures, and relaxing beach vibes instantly inspire creativity. For crafters and cardmakers, ocean-themed projects offer endless possibilities for imaginative designs that feel both whimsical and refreshing.
Summer is the perfect season to experiment with bright colors, flowing textures, and layered details that mimic the beauty of the sea. With the right under the sea cardmaking supplies, you can easily recreate the charm and mystery of underwater adventures right at your crafting desk. That’s exactly what we’re going to explore in today’s assortment of cardmaking inspo, along with essential supplies like stamps, dies, stencils, and more!
How to Find Inspiration with Your Under the Sea Cardmaking Supplies
Do you maybe live somewhere near the ocean, or enjoy visiting the beach with your loved ones a couple of times a year? These visits often mean a lot because they hold memories and fun experiences. That’s an amazing source of inspiration for ocean-themed crafts, but we’re also sharing a couple of elements you might like to craft with, too!
Sea creatures like whales, manta rays, and fish
Ocean foliage and showstopping corals
Lilypads and florals that thrive near bodies of water
Beach scenes like sandy landscapes and waves lapping on the shore
Don’t forget you can absolutely incorporate your own family photos or mementos into your ocean-themed crafting, especially for all of the scrapbookers out there!
Crafting Ideas for Under the Sea Cardmaking Supplies
Let’s get down to business and have a look at some cardmaking inspiration to help you with your next under-the-sea-themed card! We’ll be rounding up some supplies featuring stamping, stenciling, die cutting, embossing, and more to help you achieve some of these results.
Adorable Lilypad Scene
Okay, maybe this first one isn’t technically a scene from the ocean, but you can’t deny that lily pads are simply stunning, and can be used for almost any crafting project! This project below features a bunch of die-cut lily pads, topped off with gorgeous inks applied with the coordinating stencil set. To spruce things up a bit, feel free to add some florals too!
Colorful Undersea Background
There’s nothing more fun than creating a stenciled background image, and even more so when you can do it in just under three layers! With just one stencil set, you can add a subtle background color, some whimsical seaweed, and cute sea creatures like tiny fish and seahorses!
Lifelike Seashore
Can you believe that this image wasn’t stenciled or stamped on, but actually embossed? That’s right, you can achieve a look like this by simply embossing the image of waves crashing along the shore, and add color with strategic ink blending, or maybe do so with watercolors if you enjoy painting. Don’t forget to complete it with a heartfelt sentiment!
Turtley Adorable Die-Cut
One of the most iconic and well-recognized ocean creatures has to be the sea turtle. They’re incredibly gentle, graceful, and also some of the most endangered animals in the world. If you love sea turtles just as much as we do, then you’re going to adore this next handmade card idea! Create a simple die-cut turtle and pair it with other elements like coral and undersea greenery to complete the look beautifully.
Intricate Corals, Seaweed, and Jellyfish
We just adore this handmade card featuring a cute little jellyfish surrounded by seaweed and coral. Oh, and did we mention this set below is part of Altenew’s Zero Waste system? That means you can make use of both positive and negative sides of the die cut to ensure you can use everything without tossing other scrap paper!
CAS Card with a Rainbow Seahorse
For all of the CAS lovers out there, we think you’re going to like this handmade greeting card featuring an adorable little seahorse inked with a variety of colors. After all, when you can’t decide which color to choose, why not go for all of them!
Explore an Underwater World of Stamps, Stencils & Dies
Summer is an amazing time to play around with ocean-themed crafts, but don’t forget that you can always use some of these supplies all year-round! Stamping, die cutting, and stenciling designs that you love is sure to bring out stunning results.
And there you have it, folks! We hope you had a ton of fun diving into a couple of undersea-themed projects. Let us know what you create, and we’d love to see it! Don’t forget to check out our other blogs, tutorials, and so much more here at Altenew’s BLOG!
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