Hello! Christina here, and I’m so excited to share this magical under-the-sea card design with you today featuring products from the beautiful new ocean-themed release. I paired the new Block Print Floating Jellyfish with the new Sea Kelp and Mini Fish dies, inked and spattered everything with bold, saturated color, and then framed up the scene with a simple arched window. Let’s dive into this under-the-sea card design!
My first step was to create the ocean background panel with light rays filtering through. I chose regular Distress Inks in Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers, and Uncharted Mariner to use with the new layered Light Ray Stencil. I used Salvaged Patina and Peacock Feathers for the first layer and then Peacock Feathers and Uncharted Mariner for the second layer. And when stenciling, I started in the upper left corner, using a lighter hand with the ink colors, and gradually increased the pressure and the amount of ink I applied as I moved toward the lower right corner. This helped with the illusion of light filtering down through the water. And now for the fun part! With the stenciling done, I spattered the panel with plain water and with Distress Oxide Ink Sprays in Salvaged Patina and Uncharted Mariner. I just love the texture and interest this gives, especially to a watery ocean scene.
My next step was to die-cut the other elements of my card design from white cardstock. I started with the arched window frame and attached it to my background panel with foam tape. Then, I moved on to the sea kelp. I inked them with a variety of green Distress Inks and then spattered them with plain water and more ink. The green inks I chose were Lucky Clover, Pine Needles, Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, and Rustic Wilderness.
Next, I die-cut the jellyfish and inked the components with Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, and Picked Raspberry Distress Inks before assembling them with thin foam squares. Finally, I die-cut the mini fish and inked them with Mustard Seed and Carved Pumpkin.
With the other elements of my design ready, I got to work assembling the scene. I started with the sea kelp, tucking them inside the arched window against the background and also adding some to the outside of the window. I used foam squares or partial foam squares to secure the ones on the outside of the window to the background. Then I added the jellyfish and the mini fish to my scene. Finally, I added sentiment stamped on a fishtail banner, popping it up with foam squares, and finished with a few tropical blue water droplet embellishments.
Thank you so much for reading about my magical under-the-sea card I designed using some of the new ocean-themed products from the latest release. See you again soon!
