Card - Underwater scene

For our August challenge - Sun, sea and sand - I created a card with Tim Holtz Sea Life stamps.

Before creating the background I looked many underwater photos and I liked most where the sunbeams penetrated the water.  

My other inspiration was my earlier card with the Sea Life stamp set where I put a crown on the head of one of the fish.

Here, in this picture below, you can see how I created the background. I used DecoArt colours (Sea Aqua, Wedgewood Blue) and then Amsterdam white paint to make the sunrays. For this, I used Tim Holtz Rays layering stencil.

I cut out the seaweeds from green cardstocks, using Sizzix Thinlits dies by Tim Holtz: Garden Greens, Funky Florals 1. I inked the edges with Vintage Photo Distress ink.

After glueing the seaweeds, I put Ranger Distress Grit-Paste to the bottom with a palette knife.

When the paste was dry, I coloured it with DecoArt Americana Multi-Surface Buff Beige paint.

I inked the card edges with Vintage Photo.

I put a layer of Schmincke Fluid Medium. It gave a silky shine finish for the surface.

I stamped the fish (Sea Life) onto watercolour paper with Ranger Archival Jet Black ink and coloured with Distress markers. In the end, I put a layer of Schmincke Fluid Medium on the fish.

The text (Hashtags by Tim Holtz) was stamped with Ranger Archival Potting Soil ink.

And although I had lots of art pebbles, pearls, tiny shells... I decided to put only one mini pearl to only one corner because sometimes less is more!

If you have any project which fits our challenge, please don't hesitate to link it here!


With my card, I would like to join the:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Wild things

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