Hello friends! Hope you're having a fabulous week! Today I have a fun card to share with you that covers a few techniques - using masking in combination with Distress Ink blending as well as paper piecing stamped images!
First I die cut a large circle from some vellum paper. I like to use vellum so I can see exactly where I am masking!
I added another scallop sea mask using another die. Here I've masked only the top of the circle so the dark blue sea will appear below.
Once I have everything masked, I can add my distress inks. I blended this as carefully as I could so I didn't get streaks. However, it's a sea - it's supposed to be slightly choppy, right? :)
Then I removed the top mask and then used the other half to mask the sea, so I could add my sky color to my circle.
To create a more realistic effect, I added some watercolor (just using my distress ink pad and dabbing it to my acrylic block and adding water from a water brush) spatter to my circle now. I put the mask in place again over the sky so I wouldn't end up with a big blob of sea color in my sky.
During the water process, I ended up with a boo-boo on the top corner, so I used my new Avery Elle Double pierced die and die cut it so it would be slightly smaller and cut off my blob of blue on the corner.
Next is the fun part. I stamped the images on the blue sea and then again on a piece of paper.
I colored them in with Copic markers.
And then I cut them out.
Lastly, I adhered them back to the panel, over the top of the stamped images
To stamp the sentiment I simply curved the sentiment on the block and made sure it lined up.
Then I stamped the sentiments.
Next I die cut a bottom layer using Mama Elephant Femme Frames and added it to a kraft card base.
Finally I added Glossy Accents to both the star and jelly fish as well as the bubbles.
Thanks so much for stopping by today and sharing part of your day with me. I hope you have a great day!
XOXO,
Heather
