Birthday Slimline Underwater Card

I love anything that is water related!  My Favorite Things has a stencil that when used once and then rotate 3 times, looks amazingly like water!  Mine arrived over the weekend and I had to play today!

 

I chose to make a slimline card, underwater birthday card.  First I started with a sheet of Neenah 110lb card stock trimmed it to 4 1/4 x 8 1/2.  

Now, time to work with the stencil.  The stencil is approximately 6x6 so I did one section then flipped my card stock around to do the other side.  First I placed purple tape onto my glass media mat to place my card stock.  Then I prayed Pixie Spray onto the back of the stencil to keep in place.  Then I taped my card stock to the mat.  Tumbled Glass Oxide ink was used with a blender brush then I rotated the stencil and repeated inking until stencil has rotated 4 times.  To finish the other side, my card stock is flipped.  Finally, with a light touch, I blended Peacock Feathers all over to hide the seam of ink.

The second piece of card stock is inked with Vintage Photo and a blender brush.  Using my Gemini Jr I die cut the  “sand” piece with Slimline Stitched Hillside Borders and layered them for an ocean bottom.  Then adhered it to the “ocean” piece with connect glue.  Using the Large Slimline with sliders die I ran it through my Gemini Jr.  Finally I used the Small Slimline with Lift the Flaps Die on top and ran that through the Gemini Jr.

Now time to decorate!  Using some older My Monthly Hero Kit stamps I added seaweed with Hero Arts Ink.  Then I stamped with Versamark ink (in my MISTI) two coral pieces and applied Pink Puff Embossing powder and heat set.   Then using You are Sublime I stamped the sentiment with amalgam ink using my MISTI for easy placement.

I pulled out some previously stamped, colored and die cut fishes from You are Sublime and Gill Friends and played with arranging them before adhering with connect glue.  This was soooo fun to do!

Paradise card stock is trimmed to 8 1/2 x 7 and folded in half.  I then opened the flaps and make tick marks with a pencil for placement guide.  A sentiment is stamped with amalgam ink and previously colored images are attached.  I erased the tick marks with the couture creation tool.  Finally, the card top is adhered to the card base.

Have a great day and keep on crafting!

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