Thinking of you

Hello again. I'm back with my second card created for Funky Fossil Designs with the Modernist Medley Collection. This time I used the In Repose Stencil with inks and embossing powder. I wanted the figure to look like a sculpture at the ocean's edge. 

Here it is!

Funky Fossil Products Used:
In Repose Stencil 

Sentimental Sticker Stack

Other Products Used:

Bristol Paper

Patterned Cardstock by Club Scrap

Hills Acetate Masks by Lavinia Stamps

Sharpie Marker by Sanford

Thin acetate

Della Blue Elements Ink by Lavinia Stamps

Desert Sand Memento Dye Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Sand Castle Dye Ink by Catherine Pooler Designs

New Canvas Palette Hybrid Ink by Stewart Superior

Oasis Green VersaMagic Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Anti-static Pouch

Clear Detail Embossing Powder by Stampendous

Salty Ocean, Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers, and Uncharted Mariner Distress Inks by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

VersaMarker by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Die by Elizabeth Craft Designs

White Gelly Roll Gel Pen by Sakura

Low-tack Tape

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard and Glassboard Magnets by Glassboard Studio

Instructions:

1. Cut a piece of Bristol Paper to 6" x 8.5" and secure it to the STAY-tion with low-tack tape and/or magnets.
2. Use a Sharpie to trace the flattest mask from the Hills Acetate Masks by Lavinia Stamps onto a piece of thin acetate.
3. Fussy-cut on the traced line and label the top and bottom of new acetate masks. 
4. Place the bottom mask horizontally across the Bristol Paper panel and secure the mask with with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
5. Sponge or brush Della Blue Elements Ink over the top of the mask and across the top of the panel to create a blue sky.
6. Place the top mask so that it's covering the sky and touching the top of the bottom mask. Secure the mask with magnets and or low-tack tape.
7. Remove the other mask.
8. Sponge or brush Sand Castle Dye Ink over the mask onto the panel.
9. Sponge or brush Desert Sand Memento Ink below the the darker tan ink.
10. Tear a piece of scrap cardstock and place it horizontally across the panel.
11. Sponge or brush Sand Castle Dye Ink over the mask onto the panel.
12. Sponge or brush Desert Sand Memento Ink below the the darker tan ink.
13. Move the torn cardstock downwards and shift its position.
14. Sponge or brush Sand Castle Dye Ink over the mask onto the panel.
15. Sponge or brush Desert Sand Memento Ink below the the darker tan ink.
16. Repeat Steps 13 through 15 until the the beach is complete.
17. One at a time, brush the Distress Inks horizontally over the bottom of the image panel to create the ocean.
18. Heat set the panel thoroughly.
19. Pounce the anti-static pouch all over the inked panel.
20. Place the In Repose Stencil over the inked panel and secure with magnets and/or low-tack tape.
21. Carefully sponge New Canvas Palette Ink over the stencil onto the inked panel.
22. Wipe the stencil and the image panel. 
23. Allow the New Canvas Palette Ink to set and dry a bit.
24. Sponge another layer of New Canvas Palette Ink over the stencil onto the inked panel.
25. Wipe the stencil and the image panel.
26. Sponge Oasis Green VersaMagic Ink over the stencil onto the inked panel.
27. Let the ink dry for a bit, then add another layer of ink.
28. Carefully remove the tape, magnets, and stencil from the inked panel.
29. Pour clear detail embossing powder onto the wet ink, dump the excess powder back into the container, use a paint brush to remove any stray embossing powder, then heat set.
30. Use a VersaMarker to go over the embossed image.
31. Repeat Steps 29 and 30 to build up layers of embossing.
32. Use a white Gelly Roll Gel Pen to add dots, dashes, and wavy lines to the "ocean" area. 
33. Use a small blending brush to add Sand Castle Dye Ink to create shadows under the figure.
34. Trim the bottom part of the image panel leaving only a bit of sea foam and sea.
35. Use Della Blue Elements Ink and Salty Ocean Distress Ink to edge the panel.
36. Trim a patterned cardstock card so that it's .25" larger than the image panel.
37. Adhere the image panel to the card.
38. Sponge Della Blue Elements Ink onto the "Thinking of You" sentiment sticker from the Sentimental Sticker Stack.
39. Use a die to cut the patterned cardstock and use this die-cut to mat the sentiment sticker.
40. Add the sentiment sticker/die-cut to finish the card.

Notes:

• I tried to use the VersaMagic Ink by itself over the stencil, but the horizon and sand detail lines showed through the ink.
• I was very happy that the New Canvas Palette Ink worked in conjunction with the VersaMagic Ink to create enough opacity so that the background did not peek through the ink.
• To create the waves, whitecaps, and movement in the ocean, draw horizontal lines, dots, and squiggles with the white Gelly Roll Gel Pen, then use your finger to smear the wet ink.
• I was very happy that the Gelly Roll White ink showed up on the embossed surface.

Thanks for visiting today!