Whale of wishes...

• Mama elephant -whale wishes (stamps & dies)
• Mama elephant - framed tags- park avenue 
• Mama elephant - waves trio dies
• Tim holtz distress ink pads- tumbled glass, salty ocean & blueprint sketch
• Archival 'jet black' ink pad
• Sakura 'white' jelly roll pen
• Wink of stella 'clear' glitter pen
• White funky foam
• White cardstock 

I cut 3 pieces of cardstock to fit my card blank. The first I die cut using the frame die (and put this to one side to use this later). The second I die cut using the waves dies to make one medium height wave and one small wave. The third I just kept as is. 

I started to create my scene by using distress inks to colour my background, creating an ombre effect from dark blue at the bottom, to light blue at the top. I sprayed and flicked the panel with water to lift some of the ink away with a towel and create more texture. I did the same for all the wave layers. i stamped my greeting using black ink on the base layer, adding white pen highlights to help make it stand out. I stamped two of the whale images and die cut these, before adding them to my scene. Once I was happy with the lay out I glued all the pieces down, keeping the waves flat and the whales fixed using foam tape. I secured this to my card blank.

 I went back to my cardstock die cut frame and die cut another one out of funky foam. I then glued these together to create a more dimensional frame which I added to my card blank. The final touch was to stamp the water splash images to the card and glitter those (sorry they don't show up well in the photo).

Mx

Challenge I would like to enter:

Simon Wednesday says- photo inspiration (wave image)