Keep Swimming

Hi everyone!

Unbelievable how fast time flies!! It's the end of May and we're heading into the second half of our Dream Factory challenge.

 

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

The playground for this challenge is the 

Underwater world

Ocean, lake, or river—it doesn't matter. 

To create the background for the ATC card, I used blue and green acrylic paint. 

I applied the blue paint to an old credit card and then dragged it horizontally across the paper. After the paint had dried a bit, I repeated the process with the green paint—this time moving it vertically.

I let the paint dry completely—which doesn't take long with acrylics.

Next step was the jellyfish. I stamped it once in white and once, slightly offset, in light pink (using acrylics as well). I also outlined it with a black fineliner, which I didn’t think was that great in hindsight.

Now it was the small fish’s turn. I stamped them first with light gray acrylic paint and colored them with metallic paints after they dried.

I stamped the coral, two seaweeds, starfish, seahorse and turtle separately, colored them, cut them out, and glued them on. 

Finally, I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment and added a few air bubbles above the fish.

I’m very happy with the result—what do you think?

Thanks for stopping by!

Linked up with:

Little Red Wagon - Create your own Background

We Love Stamping - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: All stamps are (Stampin'Up); ...except for the sentiment (PaperArtsy)

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); 

Alcohol ink markers, acrylic paint, white embossing powder, metallic markers, acrylic markers, white Posca pen,