On of the happiest places I have ever been is Sanibel Island, Florida, back in our college days (it's changed a lot since then, I fear). We were among the many who could be found on the beaches, doing the "Sanibel Shuffle" looking for a shell (or more) for our growing collection. So I decided to create a layered card using a scallop shell stamp from JudiKins (2076G), two colors of blue card stock (from my scraps), a blue prefolded card by Memory Box, and two blue inks (Archival" Aquamarine" and Distress" Mermaid Lagoon").
I stamped the shell several times in "Aquamarine" on the lighter blue cardstock, layered it with the darker blue cardstock and added Idea-ology "Small Talk" and Big Chat" stickers which had been dragged through "Mermaid Lagoon" ink droplets on my craft sheet: