Underwater hug by Lounon

First, I used a stitched square die to cut three 4.5" (11.5 cm) rectangles into various shades of blue cardstocks.

Then, I used two nested circle dies to cut into my lighter squares. I used the bigger circle on the front panel and the smaller one on the middle panel.

After that, I used a third smaller circle die to cut two circles into white cardstock. I used a stitched border die to cut the top part of one of them.

I inked my plain circle with my water reactive inks ( Pawsitively Saturated  Seafoam, Surf and Ocean inks) and I splattered inks and water on it. I also colored the other piece with my Illustrators markers (GB7 GB4 GB2 GB1 FS9).

I glued the sand part on my blue circle and stamped my sentiment with my darker blue ink.

I splattered blue ink on my blue panels with a brush and water and assembled them : I put foam pads behind the front and the middle panel.

After that, I stamped, colored and fussy cut the cute images from the set (In addition to those on the picture below, I also stamped another rock with plants and four shells).

I used my Illustrators (I) and Copics (C) : 

Octopus : V09 V17 V06 V05 V04 V01 (C), Crab : R59 R29 R4 R22 R20 (C), Fishes : G67 YG25 YG03 YG01 Y15 Y11 (C), Jellyfish : RV09 RV06 RV04 RV02 (C), Shells : B04 (I) YR18 Y38 Y35 (C) / R85 R83 R20 (C), Rocks and plants: W7 W5 W3 W1 / YG67 YG25 / R29 R24 R22 (C).