Birthday Fishes

Good morning all I Hope you are having a good week. Today's card was made using issue 36 of Die Cutting Essentials magazine.

I started with the background and used Alcohol Inks and a felt blender to swipe different shades of blue across glossy photo paper. I also added in a little touch of Silver Mixative, to give it a bit of shine.

Then once the panel was dry I cut a circle using a Zig Zag Stitched Circle die from MFT Stamps. 

I had a great time die-cutting loads of the sea critters, shells, starfish, and seaweed out of different scraps of card, and then basing my design on one of the ideas in the magazine, I came up with this.

Don't you just love those colours? I love playing with alcohol inks, and think the effect really suits water based themes.

Thanks for stopping by today, hope you like the card, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Underwater

Welcome to my watery Wednesday offering.

I made a fabulous background using Distress Oxides and decided it looked like the sea, so needed sea creatures in it.  The colours I used are Faded Jeans, Broken China and Cracked Pistachio.

Funnily enough we don't have any fish stamps (this will be rectified 😉) but a recent magazine freebie included a few ocean elements I could use.

The coral, leaves and starfish were stamped directly on to the inky background, which I sprayed with sparkle shimmer spritz.

I tried the seahorse as a flat element but it didn't stand out enough.  I stamped and coloured it separately, coated it with Spectrum Noir shimmer pen and cut it out by hand, before adding with foam squares.

The sentiment was black heat embossed onto  white card and cut with a stitched rectangle die.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx