Go With the Flow

The next challenge theme at Shopping Our Stash is She Sells Seashells - to create a card featuring the beach, ocean, sea or seashells. 

 

 

While I love visiting the beach, I seldom buy any beach themed items since am making cards in the landlocked Midwest.  I had to do quite a bit of "shopping my stash" before I could find something to use for this week's Challenge.  I found a book of Lost Ocean postcards to color and send (by Johanna Basford).  No idea why I bought them or why they remained unopened, but I found two of them that I thought worked well together. 

The postcard paper was nice and sturdy, so with the shell background I sprayed three shades of Distress Oxide Spray - Mermaid Lagoon, Unchartered Mariner and Villainous Potion - and then blended with water.  I finished with sprays of Avery Elle Clear Shimmer Spray.

 

 

I trimmed the jelly fish from a second postcard and used ink smooshing with Distress Oxide inks to add color and then painted the jelly fish with Cosmic Shimmer Aurora Twinkles glitter gel.

I added a strip of a Gel Press print to frame the image and finished with a sentiment from Essentials by Ellen Mermaid's Tail and some Pinkfresh Studio Iridescent Pearls.

 

 

I'm also linking-up at Just Add Ink's Just Add ... Under the Sea Challenge.

My Time to Craft Challenge is also Ocean/Sea beside or on or underwater (lots of *or* options)

Comments

[AlisonC]

Beautiful colours and great use of a lucky find in your stash. The background pattern is lovely and the ink blending was gives a very watery look. x

[Lauren Bergold]

what a heroic job of shopping your stash and of course you found the perfect thing and then "artified" it so wonderfully!!! ♥

[Deb Horst]

Gorgeous blending of these colors!! Way to go shopping your stash!! Fantastic inspiration for those who decide to play along with our new "she sells seashell" challenge over at SOS.

[Rebecca Sadler]

Wow! This is amazing!!! Super cool! Thanks for linking to MTTC's ocean/sea beside or on or under the water challenge theme!!! --Becca/DT

[Chantell Randall]

Lovely Paper - I especially like the Sentiment on your card - it's a goodie! Chantell Just Add Ink

[Ann Alexander]

Love the colours you used and the sentiment is perfect. Thank you for sharing this week. Ann- Just Add Ink

[Maggie Brinkley]

Wow, what pretty colours, and the jellyfish is fab! Thanks for joining in at My Time to Craft!

love Mags B x