I started with a 51/2 inch square close to cocoa card with a gate fold it really doesn't show but I did run the "gates' through the swirls embossing folder I embossed the vanilla panels with the swirls as well because to me it looks like waves from the ocean. I stitched two rows, once inside the panel and once just outside of it
This is a small image, and I wanted to make it important so I cut it out with my nestabilities labels 2 and layered 3 together, I water colored this seahorse and painstakingly placed each pearl down with crystal effects(love that stuff)