Under The Sea

Good morning everyone, 

Welcome to May. 

As it is the first of the month it means that we have a new Lavinia Challenge. 

Our new theme is 

Under The Sea. 

I do hope you can join in, remember that the winner is chosen at random and wins £40 to spend at Lavinia. 

Here is my inspiration for you 

I hope you like it. 

Here is a tutorial to show how I created it 

I started with one of my favourite techniques, the DTP ( Direct To Paper ) 

I introduced a couple of different colours, followed by some water splats. 

This makes a great under the water background. 

Next I added some fish. 

Followed by some sea vegetation. 

It is great to build up the design with different stamps and ink pads (obviously Shady Lady was there ) 

I added some sentiment stamping using second generation stamping. 

Next another layer, this time ink and water on the stencil. 

Look at the  fabulous watery print. 

I used gel pens to add colour to the fish 

I drew around the small white orbs in the stencil to make the bubbles. 

Next I added more depth of colour by using the  chalk pastel pencils. 

I seem to use these on most projects these days

To frame the whole design I blended more ink around the edges, and then 

added more water splats. I really love how this has turned out. 

For sparkle I added some Eco glitter. 

I finished off the whole design by adding Glossy Accents into the bubbles. 

I do hope you will enter the Challenge, I had such fun creating this design. 

Enjoy your weekend.

Let’s hope the weather behaves for us all 

Much love and hugs 

Jo xxx