Time for Love To Craft August Challenge!

Happy August 1st and yes I'm just as shocked as you -- where has the time gone? Today I'm sharing my design team sample for Love To Craft's August Anything Goes Challenge #49.

I've made a guy birthday card for one of our relatives, hopefully chuckle-worthy. I have wanted to make this card for a while and I'd been looking at the shark-themed stamp sets that seem to be everywhere now but the set I wanted has been CONSTANTLY out of stock. So I decided to look for digi-sharks!

I searched on Google Image and almost immediately my eye was drawn to a set by Clipartisan on Etsy:

I used the middle shark on the front of my card and the upper left shark on the inside. I generated all of my sentiments in PSE and printed out on Springhill card stock along with my sharks. I used Springhill and Recollections card stocks and Carta Bella and Avery Elle patterned papers.

   

I used TSOT's sketch that includes optional Create a Scene. A pretty great, almost perfect sketch for the scene I had in mind, actually. All of the dies / elements that I wanted to use needed the space, so I resized the sketch to 6x6 in PSE.

I began by stamping a cloudy sky with an IO Cover-A-Card stamp called Sky  I then die cut  everything I wanted to use with my white Springhill card stock, all except the plane - I used a red paper scrap. I then arranged everything on my background and took my usual guide photo, above. I decided later not to use the little IO sailboat and let the shark take center stage.

No other process photos, as I got too into creating. Once I knew where my elements would go, I then took a My Favorite Things Wavemaker stencil and blended on some Tumbled Glass Distress ink to make my very wavy waterline which I later outlined with a white gel pen. Then I eyeballed a beach horizon and drew that in and colored it with a golden brown Promarkers, then a Polychromos pencil, then gold Wink of Stella.

Next I gathered a few more stencils for the ocean: Dina Wakley's Mighty Wave and A Colorful Life Coiled stencils. And I got out my Cracked Pistachio, Mermaid Lagoon, Salty Ocean and Blueprint Sketch Distress inks. I went to work with these and my blending brushes and soon had an okay-looking body of water for the shark.

Then I colored my die cut collage elements: the IO Plane with Banner, IO Palm Trees and Lawn Fawn Stitched Sun . I colored and fussy cut the shark and adhered him onto the card with an action wobbler for a 3D spring effect.

I lined the inside with papers and then added a piece of card I'd printed another of the sharks onto and then used the Coiled stencil around it. It reminds me of a huge school of fish swimming in a circle. Shark is again colored with ProMarkers and distress ink-edged.

On the back, more papers and a stamped siggie on leftover scraps with a Spellbinders anchor die cut from same paper.

I hope you will stop by Love to Craft and check out all the team designs, and then join us! Thanks for stopping in and be well and safe! XOX

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:
1.  TSOT Challenge #467: Sketch + Create A Scene -- Sketch is shown above and I created a scene
2.  AAA Birthday Game #15: 3D -- I've used a wobbly under the shark to create my 3D effect  

3.  Sisterhood of Crafters: Anything Ocean or Beachy
4.  Outlawz Color Tuesdays 7/28-8/10: Choose 1 Color Top + 2 Bottom -- I used red from the top and yellow and blue from the bottom

5.  Try It On Tuesday: Summertime
6.  Double D Challenge: Beach Mood Board --

7. I Love Promarkers Week 415: AG + Opt. Colour Inspiration Photo -- I've played the option! I colored the shark and the palm trees with Promarkers.