Great to Sea You

I combined two challenges for today's card

  

and came up with this:

I started with some ink smooshing. The circles of light blue were punched out and I tried to make them sort of progressive - ie the upper circle is light with some white for being near the top of the ocean, concentrated light blue for the middle circle and then darker blues for the lower one to represent deeper water. The adorable seahorse has a rhinestone eye I coloured blue using a Copic marker. I stamped and clear embossed the sentiment on vellum which is adhered under the seahorse and wrapped around the edge of the card to be held on the back. I had to flip the sketch to get this to fit, lol, but I think it works ok. I was going to dry emboss the background but it detracted from the focal point so I stamped a few bubbles instead.

Materials used:

• stamps - Mermaid Kisses (Sugar Pea Designs)
• card - watercolour, soft sky, vellum
• distress oxide inks - tumbled glass, chipped sapphire, saltwater taffy, abandoned coral
• other - Big Shot, 1 3/4" circle punch, Picture Book Seahorse die (Simon Says Stamp), clear embossing powder, heat tool, water spritzer, blending brush, MISTI, rhinestone, B24 Copic marker, Dimensionals, craft foam, sponge dauber

Have a crafty day and thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

Mermaid Kisses

With limited space onboard, I had to very sadly leave all my distress oxide inks at home. I did, however, make a few backgrounds to bring with me - I'm pretty sure that won't surprise you. Today I used one of those for a card. Here tis:

Firstly I cut it with the double-stitched framelit then attached the outer piece to my card base with mounting tape before dry embossing the centre panel and attaching it flat. This particular background was done on watercolour paper, so the embossed lines are nice and deep. I then stamped and coloured the mermaid and seahorse, using drops of re-inker to colour with rather than my usual ink pads; this gives a much bolder intensity of colour. For the seaweed I've combined dies from Smooth Sailing and Under the Sea in vellum and card, all attached with my fine-tip glue pen.

Materials used:

• stamps - Mermaid Kisses (SugarPea Designs)
• card - Pacific point, watercolour, granny apple green, daffodil delight, vellum
• dies - Smooth Sailing, Under the Sea
• other - seaside embossing folder, Big Shot, Dimensionals, distress oxide inks, ink blender, fine tip glue pen, aqua painter, ink refills, scissors, mounting tape, double stitched rectangle framelits (Scrapdragon), sequins

Only problem is now I've got distress oxide withdrawal! Lol.

Thanks for swimming by.

Cheers

Kez