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Salty Sea Scene Tutorial

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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 sta...