Adventure under the Sea

 Hello and welcome to my second project for the August challenge at Country View Challenges!

The theme this time is "I like to be beside the Seaside". You can make a beach theme or even a underwater scene.

This time I made a Art Journal page with a underwater scene.

For my background I spreat heavy body acrylic paints in different blue and green tones over the background and did some reverse stenciling with a stencil from Tim Holtz.

Then I stamped with a lot of the beautiful stamps from Rubber Dance circles and bubbles from a stamp set in blue and green distress oxides, and waterplants with black Archival Ink from the Doodle Boarders stamp set.

Now I stamped the lovely sea turtle and the shells and seastars on white cardstock and colored them with my Inktense watersoluble pencils and activated them with water. Then I cut them out and glued everything down. The words are also from Rubber Dance, called Journal Words. They are also stamped on white cardstock and cut out. Before I glued them down, I toned the white down with a blue Inktense pencil.

Now I added some bubbles with white paint and the help of several tubes, which came as a protecton for brushes. Then I made some lines around the words with a black posca pen.

Last I went with black paint and a palet knife over the edges to frame the page.

Here are some close ups:

That´s it for today.

Now I hope, you will show some beachy work for our challenge! You can win a 20 £ voucher to spend in the shop!

Thank you for your visit and have a good time!

Beside The Sea

Hello and happy weekend!

Today I want to share with you my first project for the August challenge at Country View Challenges. This month the theme is "I Do Like To Be At The Seaside", hosted by the lovely Christine aka Craftyfield.

I pulled out my beachy stamp set from Creative Expressions (you can find it in the shop) and made a fun summer card!

This is what I did:

 

I took some stuff and went outside to my terrace, it´s very warm and sunny here, and started with my background paper. I cut it to size and distressed the edges. Then I took some DI vintage photo and made a aged border.

From the stampset "Beside The Seaside" I used first the fishnet stamps and stamped them randomly to the edges with VersaFine Clair Pinecone.

With the help of my stamping platform I stamped the image and the words onto white Bristol paper. I used VersaFine Clair pinecone and nocturne.

After I cut out the image and the words I colored the picture with my FaberCastell Polycromos. First I took several skin tones (I didn´t forget to use some red, you always can find British people at the beach because of their red skin *lol* - sorry friend, I couldn´t resist 😉😋)

Look, what a fun picture this is! I love that stamp!

Now I took some paper, a netting, some corrugated cardboard and arranged everything to a vocal point.

I glued all down and decorated with some flowers, seashells I found somewhen on a beach, glued down the words and added a few perfect pearls in glitter blue.

Here are some close ups:

Oh, I really would like to go to the sea! Not this year, but hopefully next year.

Now it´s your turn to make something for our challenge!

Thank you for your visit today and have a sunny August!