I've got some fishy birthday wishes going on today featuring the fab new Sea-prise! set from Avery Elle along with a couple of their older sea themed stamp sets.
The inspiration for the card actually came from their fun new circle frames die which I thought looked like 4 portholes.........
I started with a square base card and covered the front with some paper from Reverse Confetti's Fun Time paper pad and die cut the 4 circles from it. To emphasise the porthole effect, I picked the circle die that closely matched the frames circles and die cut it 4 times from white card. I then lined a circle up (one at time otherwise they overlap a bit if you do them all together) on the Avery Elle die and ran it back through the machine to get my dotted circle rings.
To finish the front I wanted the word "sending..." so it pairs with the sentiment inside but I couldn't find a die to fit the space I wanted so I decided to just use word dies and let the sentiment flow around the portholes. I think we can get hung up on "straight" sentiments and sometimes mixing it up just works. I used the simple alpha from AlteNew.
To create the scene on the inside I just drew very light pencil marks through the circles so I knew where to stamp. Starting with the grinning shark from Sea-Prise as I just wanted his teeth in the porthole so there was an element of reveal when you opened it up. I did the same with the puffer fish - trying to not show the party bits from the outside.
I added three dots with a pen in front of the top sentiment to link it to the sending on the front and put the second sentiment from the Sea-Prise set at the bottom. I added the whale from whale hello which I just realised has been discontinued so I am sorry about that but I forgot to check before I used it. You could add a mermaid or some of the other fish from "that bites" which is where the front facing fish comes from.
I filled in the final porthole with the shoal of fish from Sea-Prise and filled in other gaps with them too before adding a very light blue colour wash over the background to finish and give it a more sea theme. All the sea creatures are coloured with pencils.
NEWS FROM THE STORE
It will be another busy week of releases this week:
Tara
The inspiration for the card actually came from their fun new circle frames die which I thought looked like 4 portholes.........
I started with a square base card and covered the front with some paper from Reverse Confetti's Fun Time paper pad and die cut the 4 circles from it. To emphasise the porthole effect, I picked the circle die that closely matched the frames circles and die cut it 4 times from white card. I then lined a circle up (one at time otherwise they overlap a bit if you do them all together) on the Avery Elle die and ran it back through the machine to get my dotted circle rings.
To finish the front I wanted the word "sending..." so it pairs with the sentiment inside but I couldn't find a die to fit the space I wanted so I decided to just use word dies and let the sentiment flow around the portholes. I think we can get hung up on "straight" sentiments and sometimes mixing it up just works. I used the simple alpha from AlteNew.
To create the scene on the inside I just drew very light pencil marks through the circles so I knew where to stamp. Starting with the grinning shark from Sea-Prise as I just wanted his teeth in the porthole so there was an element of reveal when you opened it up. I did the same with the puffer fish - trying to not show the party bits from the outside.
I added three dots with a pen in front of the top sentiment to link it to the sending on the front and put the second sentiment from the Sea-Prise set at the bottom. I added the whale from whale hello which I just realised has been discontinued so I am sorry about that but I forgot to check before I used it. You could add a mermaid or some of the other fish from "that bites" which is where the front facing fish comes from.
I filled in the final porthole with the shoal of fish from Sea-Prise and filled in other gaps with them too before adding a very light blue colour wash over the background to finish and give it a more sea theme. All the sea creatures are coloured with pencils.
NEWS FROM THE STORE
It will be another busy week of releases this week:
- Mama Elephant will be live on Tuesday
- Lawn Fawn will be live on Thursday
- Neat & Tangled
- Newton's Nook
- Concord & 9th
- Hero Arts Restocks
Tara