SCUBA Card ~ 2 Challenges

There was a great sketch over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp It was PERFECT for the idea I had for this card. And over at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge site, the challenge is called "Going in Circles" And I've tried to get a few circles on here....and it seemed like I was using those QK nesties circles ALOT here! LOL

Now this card.... it's funny to me, see I bought this Stampendous Changito scuba diving monkey stamp and the sentiment stamp to go along with it many moons ago! All in order to make this particular card for this particular friend of mine. See, I dislike monkeys ( I know, I can hear all your "What!" and "why's" from here) they've just never done much for me, nor am I a scuba diver, in fact the deep water and well fish.... scare me alittle. So, I did not NEED this stamp as I do so many others (hehehe) but I HAD to get it for my friend as he's a maniac scuba diver and well, the card would be perfect for him. I figured Id make the card and then give him the stamps to go with it (he actually scrapbooks himself, many pics of him diving actually) BUT!!! LOL I love this card SO MUCH and now I think I NEED TO KEEP this stamp so I can make more like this.... LOL but that's silly right? besides.... I need to focus on scrapbooking... not making more cards. LOL JK!

So...here's a close up of my little monkey friend here:

What I've done here is......drumroll please.... (haha, sorry, I just heard the da da da DAAA! in my head) I took my tiny beads and sprayed them down with Tattered Angels Glimmer mist, worked pretty good, cept they stuck together and stuck to the bottom of the craft tray (that may end up in the garbage now...not sure Im up to the mess of scraping the rest out), there are EVERYWHERE now.... but they turned out blue...which was the point. Then I've used some packaging I bought at Creative Accents to make the shaker card. I stamped a bunch extra of the little fish in the image I used some liquid glass to attach a few to the inside of the dome as well as there are some floating in the beads. Around the stamped image I've also used liguid glass to make some extra bubbles and then spounged ink around it for the water. Anyhow... the paper I've used I couldn't tell you the name of, I got it on a clearance rack somewhere and it's embossed and has some glossy accents on top of the bubble like embossing, it's quite neat actually. The little fish at the bottom is from a CTMH set and of course the SCUBA is from Stampendous as well.

SO! The final result Im pretty happy with.... we'll see whether Shane gets the stamp or not... I'll decide before bed. hehehe...... Here's a shot of the inside. Thanks for looking!!!