Keep on Swimming!!

I'm back once again for Just Us Girls Trend Week #614 Inked or Sprayed Backgrounds! I've been wanting to make a "card" like this with the raised layers and had time/patience to try it. I also wanted to watercolor a sea inspired project this week as it is still warm in Florida!

I got out some watercolor paper, an aqua painter and some stamps and dies. I watercolored all over three 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 watercolor paper panels, making sure no two were exactly alike in pattern or dominant colors. I stamped the schools of fish next, then stamped, colored and die cut the fish, crab and sentiment. Next I cut domes from two of the panels in two different sizes. I popped up the top two dome panels on double layers of foam tape, then added my sea creatures and sentiment into the scene. The sequins were added last and the front card panel was complete! But from the sides you could see the foam tape, so I went to Splitcoaststampers for a tutorial on a shadow box card that I knew I had seen at some point. I made just the frame from this tutorial and glued my card front panel down into it. It took some calculations to make my frame fit the card panel exactly, but after two tries it was right! (I'm not a math wiz!)

Products used:

Simon Says Stamp Under the Sea Animals stamps and dies

Stampin' Up! Sea Street school of fish stamp

Waffle Flower Dome dies

Simon Says Stamp Intense Black ink for sentiment and sea creatures

Distress Inks and Stampin' Up! Classic inks for watercolor

Pretty Pink Posh jewels

Copic markers

Hope you enjoyed my shadow box and you will join us this week for some inked backgrounds!

-Carol