Honu Favorite Sea Creature for My Favorite Hop Post

Every Sunday, I try to participate in an event titled, My Favorite Hop.  Each week our hostess Sara  @sarae.furr_thecraftyfarmchick selects a 'favorite' for us to focus upon and share our interpretation of our favorites.  

This week on the hop, we were asked to share our favorite sea creature.

Since I know of no lizards in the ocean, I chose the sea turtle or honu, as it is called in Hawaii, to showcase for you today.

When we lived in Hawaii--where our son was born--we discovered that the honu is a symbol of good luck, wisdom, endurance/long life, and strong family connections.

This card was crafted up with the following items from @tcwstencils :

Ocean Mist, Beach Grass, & Seafoam Stencil Butters were mixed to create the #TCW847S stencil Wave background. I simply used my palette knife to grab a tiny bit of each butter from the lid and placed it upon my stencil in various spots and mixed it together.

When the stenciled had sufficiently air dried, I ran it through the die cutting machine with the square card base layer die from @divinitydesignsllc .

Using the #TCW610S mini sea turtle stencil, I mixed up Sage, Fern, & Terre Verte Stencil Butters to make the three mini turtles. I actually mixed up enough butter to stencil a total of nine mini turtles. They will be in a future project I am sure of. Utilizing my scissors, I fussy cut the honu out and set aside to add later on to my project.

The square card base layer from #divinitydesignsllc was used to die cut the beautiful beaches paper out; and the wave stencil panel was adhered atop it with Bearly Art Glue.

Checking my ribbon stash, I found three ribbons that I could finally use to accent this card. The bright blue lined ribbon was added first. I just placed Sookwang double stick 1/2" tape onto the back and adhered to the card. Next, the darker green sheer ribbon was added in a similar manner with a bow. Lastly, the brown sentiment "Together is a wonderful place to be!," ribbon was added with double stick tape. I have had that last ribbon for 21 years! Originally, I bought it to go on a scrapbook layout that never made it out of my creative skull. Talk about holding onto something for a long time. At least I finally used it. {The first blue ribbon was from a third-grade costume I had to make for my daughter... in 2011.}

A square card base was created with Neenah 80 lb cardstock. Divinity's weathered wood paper was glued atop the card base; and then the wavy layer adorned with ribbon was added with glue.

Foam tape allowed me to pop up the turtles to complete the card.

Hope you enjoyed my card process. If you have not worked with stencil butter, I highly reccommend it. It is easy to clean up off of stencils and what an effect it creates!

Thank you for popping by today! Have a wonderful crafty Sunday! Crafty hugs, Love Lizard xoxo