Starfish Project

Well I was very excited to have my first official guest designer post over on the Artistic Outpost blog today!  I decided to pull out my Beyond the Sea set and create a starfish card. 

I started with creating a starfish shape.  After a few sketches I decided to trace a circle from the bottom of my glass onto white cardstock. I free-handed a leg of the starfish. I used the starfish stamp and a real starfish (dried out) from the kids bathroom as my inspiration. After I had created one leg, I cut it out and used it to trace the outline on the circle five times. That became my template.

Here is the starfish:

Recipe:

1. Cut out starfish shape.
2. Stamp Image of the couple using brown pigment ink. Color using watercolor and distress edges with brown dye ink.
3. Stamp multiple shells and sea creatures using brown pigment ink. Sponge with Scattered Straw Dye Ink. Sponge edges with brown dye ink.
4. Stamp music using brown pigment ink repeatedly across starfish.
5. Sponge gold dye ink across entire starfish.
6. Sponge edges of starfish with brown dye ink. Sponge using sea sponge brown dye ink to add a texture.
7. Add touches of light blue to starfish by coloring light blue and blending with waterbrush.
8. Versamark all images and starfish and heat emboss using clear embossing powder. Repeat if needed to get smooth surface.
9. Tie twine around surface of starfish.
10. Layer couple in boat and other images onto starfish using pop dots and glue dots.
11. Accent clams with light blue pearls.

Now after that was done..... I decided I wanted a backdrop for my starfish and I created this:

I love the effect of the tool as it looks like water rippling and added a few pearls for the bubbles. I didn't have a frame so I will need to get one to put this in so I can hang it up. It goes with the decor in the den perfectly.

I hope you enjoyed the little starfish!

Thanks for stopping by.. Have a wonderful weekend!

Suzz