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Happy Birthday - under the sea theme hand coloured A5 card -   Day 81 of my 365 day challenge Hi Craft addicts! I have wanted to try some of the colour wash paints I recently got from both Tattered Angels and the water colour inks from Brea Reese and some Hunkydory For The Love of Stamps for the figures etc. How I made this project:- This card is made up of several different components - the first is the sky, the second the divers, submarine stamp images and the last is the water. The Sky I took a piece of white stamping card (which fitted the A5 card) and having added some drops of the Brea Reese Watercolour inks on to a craft mat and swirled it around with some water - the colours I used were blues and purples.  I then placed the card on top of it and swiped it over the ink several times until I was happy with the effect. I also added some more water to dilute some areas and left it to dry over night (or you can use a heat gun but it does tend to ...

Happy birthday - underwater diver scene on 6in square card -  Day 58 of my 365 day challenge Hi Craft addicts! Such a strange now - snowing, sunshine and clouds - so have made this card to cheer me up! Once again I have used some of the brilliant stamps from For The Love of Stamps by Hunkdyor and some of Tattered Angels Colour Wash Paints... How I made this card:- I took a 6" x 6" piece of stamping card and trimmed it down so that it fitted on a 6" scalloped edged card. I wanted to try out some of the Tattered Angels Colour Wash Paints I had, so coloured it with their blues and blacks using a flat brush trying to merge the colours in to make the bottom darker than the top. I used a heat tool to dry it a bit and then left it to dry for about 20 minutes (trying to keep it flat at the same time). Once it was fully dry, I then created the underwater scene but stamping the shipwreck on the bottom right hand corner and the sea plants on the right - 2nd genera...