Hello friends! It’s time for a brand new sketch challenge from My Favorite Things! For this week’s sketch, I was inspired to create an underwater scene.

I started by trimming a piece of smooth white card stock to 3.75″ x 4.75″. I then used the Drifts & Hills Stencil to create a wavy pattern similar to that on the sketch layout. I blended some Distress Inks onto this panel, starting with the darkest color at the bottom and working my way up to the lightest. I used Tumbled Glass, Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers, Chipped Sapphire, and Black Soot for my color blend.

Once I finished with blending my colors, I then generously splattered my piece with some water using a small paint brush. I dabbed any excess water dry with a clean paper towel and then repeated the process one more time to get a lot of texture. I set this piece aside to dry completely and went to work on my images.

I stamped all of my images from the Birdie Brown Friends with Fins Stamp Set onto a piece of Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. I then colored them with Copic Markers (Whale: BG10, BG11, BG15, BG57, BG18; Orca: W5, W7, W9; Dolphin: W00, W1, W2, W4, W5, Blush: R30). Next, I grabbed my ink blended panel again and measured a center point toward the bottom of my piece but an inch or two from the bottom.

I used a ruler to draw a line from each bottom corner to this point and then used a sharp pair of scissors to cut my fishtail. I then adhered this piece to my 4.25″ x 5.5″ white card base with some double sided adhesive. To finish, I then heat embossed both my sentiment and some fish with Fine Detail White Embossing Powder and then added my images with some 3D Foam Adhesive Squares for some extra dimension.

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