One of my “friends” on Facebook is the Glass Artists Group. A tutorial on sandblasting glass was posted on the blog connected with this group, Glass Art and Etching News. I’ve always wanted to do this and even plan to set up a sandblasting unit for my studio. What they’ve got you doing is sandblasting a design on glass using a stencil. Simple enough. And here’s more info on sandblasting and sand carving…I know one of the ways I plan on using sandblasting on my glass is to give the surface a nice matte finish. It’s also good for evening up a surface before a firepolishing or a slumping. You can also remove a devit from a surface. Hate to the devit!
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12 Handmade Card Ideas Featuring Fish and Sea Creatures
I love the pink, orange and teal color combo on this cute gold fish card! The die cut and colored fish is swimming among colorful stenciled seaweed and bubbles with touches of glitter added all around. Learn more at the Spellbinders blog.
When I think about Summer I think of trips to the beach and swimming in the ocean and all the wonderful fish and sea life that live there. With Summer winding down and Fall quickly approaching let’s create cards using Fish and Sea Creatures to celebrate one last hurrah for Summertime. These designs work for so many different occasion, for anyone who loves the sea and to create masculine cards with a Nautical feel.
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These bright and cheery cards from Karen are easy to assemble using printed dies, pattern papers and die cut doilies. For added embellishments she’s included sentiments made with sticker letters, small paper clips and domed accents, all in coordinating colors. Take a closer peek at the Doodlebug blog.
This amazing pull and slide card from Mindy has a stamped shrimp and fish swimming over die cut seashells. When the tab is pulled the scene slides and pops up to reveal a stamped treasure chest of gold and a sweet sentiment. Watch her video tutorial at the Lawn Fawn blog.
This beautiful blue under water card from Jennifer has ombre’ shades of ink blending with a masked off bottom. Over the ink blending she stamped fish, shells and starfish to create a custom pattern paper design. Below she stamped her sentiment, adding stamped and die cut shells. Find all the info at the LDRS blog.
Here’s a more cutesy take on sea creatures with an adorable turtle scene card from Hanh. She created an ink blended ocean, sandy beach and sky to place the stamped turtles who are having a blast surfing, building a sandcastle and chilling in the sun. I spotted her card on the Hanh Made Cards Instagram page.
This stunning mixed media card from Miriam has a colored and stenciled background created with glitter glues and stencil paste. Over that she stamped and heat embossed a starfish and seahorse colored with artist crayons. Find step by step directions at the Ranger Ink blog.
Jennifer created her own ocean waves at the beach with textured blue paper and white cardstock cut in a wave pattern and placed over a light tan speckled paper. She die cut two cute crabs from dark blue shimmer paper and added pink shimmer paper in her offset die cut title too. Learn more at the Scrapbook Adhesives blog.
Gina made an amazing rainbow ink blended background behind her die cut circle panel on this darling jellyfish card. The stamped jelly is floating in a fishbowl made from detailed dies for different shades of blue water, sand and seaweed in a white bowl. I spotted this at the Gina K Designs Instagram page.
This awesome shark card from Megan has a cool stamped shark who’s dressed like a pirate, colored with OLO alcohol markers. There’s a light blue ink blended background and a Polaroid die cut layer over a pop of yellow cardstock. Find more details at the I Teach Stamping blog.
Suzy designed a delightful pocket shaker card using ocean friends stamps of a whale, seahorse and fish. She used Copic Markers to color them in bright colors, die cutting them and placing them on a blue background tucked into a shaker pouch and filled with silver disk embellishments. Take a closer peek at the Simon Says Stamp blog.
I love the blue and white nautical feel on the card from Tina. She stamped chunky seals colored with Copics and added them to her wonderful background made with ink blending, stenciling and die cutting. The lacy scalloped round circle really pulls the eye in towards the scene. Find out more at the Sunny Studio blog.
This awesome Octopus card from Lauren has so much depth and texture! She’s got a subtle stenciled background with glittery jumping stenciled fish, stamped waves popped up, colorful stamped octopus and shells tucked in and shimmer spray all over too. Learn more at the Lauren Taylor Made blog.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this look at some ink-credible handmade sea creature cards!
-Heather
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