DCM - I'd like to be, under the sea...

Morning all!

This week's Daring Cardmakers challenge is full of marine fun!

Svenja has challenged us to head below the waves and explore the beautiful briny sea. I really wish I had some octopuses and co. in my collection, but the nearest I could come was a tiny little whale from an old stamp set by PTI who is bobbing along...

Paper: Crate Paper - Poolside
Stamps: PTI - Tiny Treats: Birthday (r), Avery Elle - Swell, Memory Box - Big and Little Words
Dies: Mama Elephant - Sew Fancy, Hero Arts - Infinity Nesting Rectangles, Simon Says Stamp - Sentiment Labels

I went pretty old school on my supplies: I had an old Poolside paper block from Crate Paper which has some great wavy patterns in it and the only cardstock I could find to match the colour tones was Aqua Mist and Ocean Tides from PTI.

Everything else was full on blue and clashed so badly with this aged look Crate Paper used for its design.

I stamped my little whale with Memento and coloured it with Copics - I've recently redone my copic colour chart as the one that used to hang up has faded over the years and I was getting a shock at how different the colours were when I went to use them vs what I thought they'd look like. While I was at it I recoloured my Promarker chart (there are a few pens I need to replace) but the Promarker colours were otherwise doing very well.

I added some white pen highlights to the image and used my Avery Elle background stamp to tie in the waves and marine look. I used the Sew Cute dies from Mama Elephant to create a porthole aperture and finally heat embossed the PTI greeting. Thankfully I could mask off another greeting from the Memory Box set to complete the sentiment.

Oh and I forgot to mention, I'm trying to make my stockpile of UK card sizes and envelopes go further, so I used a 5x7 card blank that I then shortened in height to get the proportions right when using the Infinity Rectangles from Hero Arts. It still fits fine in the envelope due to the 3D foam tape so it's not sliding about. Just a good way to marry my US rectangles and frames with what's easily available in the UK, because heaven knows A2 envelopes of good quality are difficult to get in say packs of 20 or more.

To see the rest of the lovely creations from the design team and play along, click on the image below which will take you to the challenge:

Happy crafting!

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Avery Elle - Swell stamps Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC	Memory Box - Big and Little Words stamps Shop at: SSS	PTI - Tiny Treats: Birthday stamps (r) Shop at: MISC	Hero Arts - Infinity Nesting Rectangles dies Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC
Mama Elephant - Sew Fancy dies Shop at: SHC | SSS	Simon Says Stamp - Sentiment Labels dies Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts - Charcoal ink pad Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC | SHC	Memento - Tuxedo Black ink pad Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC
Versamark ink pad Shop at: AZ | EH | SHC	Bazzill Cardshoppe - Marshmallow Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	PTI - Aqua Mist cardstock Shop at: MISC	PTI - Ocean Tides cardstock Shop at: MISC
Simon Says Stamp - Slate Gray cardstock Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts - White embossing powder Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC | SHC	Uniball Signo White pen Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Tonic Studios Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC
3M Scotch double-sided foam tape Shop at: AZ | EH	EK Success powder tool Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Lawn Fawn - Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC | SHC	MISTI stamping tool Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC
Sizzix - Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Thermoweb iCraft - Purple tape for die-cutting - 1 1/2" Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC

Comments

[Svenja]

This is lovely, Nat, and it doesn't feel old-school to me. Also a whale is definitely submarine, so no worries there :-)

(And I never realized this before: it's a little scary that the supply-list for one card should be THIS long *giggle* I guess we all have a lot of stuff that we don't even realize we're using every day...)

[Angelnorth]

Super cute Nat, love the way everything focuses down on the whale!

[Handmade by Natty]

Ha, I know, the clean and simple cards always tend to involve far more supplies than you realise. lol

Thanks for the lovely comments you two! x