Salty Sea Scene Tutorial

Hi folks! It's Bibi here today with a salty card tutorial. The stamps I have used are on sale right now - till 30th of July. 

For my card I let one of the new whale stamps play in the water, which I made with Distress Oxide inks
- but I'm sure you can get a similar result with any kind of water based inks (aka dye ink).

Step by step:

I smeared two colours of Distress Oxide (salty ocean, peacock feathers) on a plastic page cover
and sprayed the stripes with a bit of water:

To get the water in the middle of the card, I folded the cardstock like this

... and dipped it into the ink. 

(My keyboard in the background is not dirty, it's colourful! It's a result of using ink sprays in front of it ...)

Keep doing this and heat dry between several "dips of ink"

till you're happy with the result.

I stamped half of the whale by placing her on the side of the acrylic block

and added ink on the part I wanted to stamp:

After stamping the whale into the water, I coloured her in using markers.

I doodled some splashes of water around the whale's body and coloured them with a white pen.

I also added some white spots here and there to give more life to the water:

Time to make the sandy bottom of the sea:

I made a mask by tearing up a piece of paper,

used a foam sponge to add ink (Oxide wild honey), and sprayed it with water:

I stamped the anchor from Retro Beach so that it appears to be buried in the sand,

coloured it in, and drew the shadow with a light grey marker:

The green seaweed above is a stamp from Whale Wishes.

I also wanted some die cut seaweed on top for a bit of dimension.

I don't have any seaweed dies so I used pieces from a tree die instead.

Close enough, isn't it?

The shell behind the seaweed was stamped with brown waterproof ink, 

coloured in with markers.

I mounted my card on a sea green panel

distressed the edges with a knife

and dipped them in white acrylic paint like this:

Here is my card again,

with sentiments from Whale Whishes (blubb-blubb) 

and Retro Beach (salt sea summer fun):

I kept looking at my finished card, feeling it was lacking something ....

and then I remembered my bubble background Dinky stencil from That's Crafty!

I think these blue bubbles ties the card together:

I wish you all a lovely summer!

I have not been to the beach yet, but before long I will be playing in the sea 

- like a whale :-)

Big hugs,

Bibi

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The stamps I have used are from these two sets:

These stamps - and more - are on sale, but only for two more days!

Thank you for stopping by!