Friendly fins Hammerhead shark card

 

I love this set. The hammerhead shark reminds me of when I went scuba diving with my son in Mexico. After we arrived he said “I’m so excited, oh and by the way it’s hammerhead mating season!” When I asked why he didn’t tell me before, he said he was afraid I wouldn’t go. Luckly we saw a seal, eel, puffer fish and a lot of other cool stuff, but no sharks.

When you combine the cool stamps in this set with the even cooler dies you can come up with some pretty amazing cards. I plan to use it in my scrapbooks as well.

Here is a list of supplies used.

Stamps: Friendly Fins

Ink: Coastal Cabana, Basic Gray, Gray Granite, Momento Black, Daffodil Delight and Calypso Coral

Stampin’ Blends: Shaded Spruce

Paper: Coastal Cabana, Thick White and Basis White card stock. Watercolor paper.

Accessories: Stamp Cut and Emboss machine, Friendly fins and Deckle Circles dies, So Swirly embossding Folder, Specialty plate, Water painter, Acrylic blocks (H&B). Foam adhesive strips or Stampin’ Dimensionals, Tombo glue, Tear & Tape, Paper snips, Paper trimmer, Simply Scored, Sponge daubers.

Instructions:

1.     Cut card base of 5 ½” x 8 ½” and score at 4 ¼”. Emboss card front with the So Swirly embossing folder using the Stamp Cut and Emboss machine and use the Specialty plate instead of the clear plate. Cut water color paper 3 ¾”x x 5”. This gives you two card fronts out of one sheet of our Fluid 100 watercolor paper.

2.     Add Coastal Cabana ink to you H block by pressing the ink pad directly on the block. Drop several drops of water on the watercolor paper and do a wash with just the water. Using the largest Water Painter add 2 = 3 drops of water to block and mix with ink. Color on paper with brush in a long seeping motion leaving the very top white. Set aside to dry.

3.     Cut an inside panel of white card stock 4” x 5 ¼” and wiping most of the water off the brush do a light water color wash, make sure not to use to much water and do less coverage than on the front. Set aside.

4.     Die cut the Coral Reef, two plants, two rocks and three small fish. Make a wash of the Calypso Coral in like you did the Coastal Cabana. Take the water painter and dip in the ink that does not have water added and color the three small fish, set aside. Using the watered down ink, water color wash the coral reef, leaving the coral on the top right side. If you accidently color it do not worry, the Stampin’ Blend with cover it. Water wash the rocks with Gray Granite ink.

5.     Water color the two plants and the coral left blank with a Coastal Cabana without watering down much to get a deeper color, or color all with the Shaded Spruce Stampin’ Blend.

6.     Stamp the hammer head outline and the Three fish using Momento Ink. Stamp two step stamp with Gray Granite for the shark and Daffodil Delight for the fish. I also added a light wash of gray Granite on the white portion of the shark. Die cut out using dies from the die set.

7.     Stamp sentiment on inside of card and stamp shark same as the front of card. Die cut out bubbles on the inside and panel and the front panel.

8.     Using a distressing tool (retired) or scissors rough up the edges of the water color paper. Add Coastal Cabana ink to the edges using a sponge dauber. Also sponge the edges of the card front.

9.     Glue inside panel and Water color panel to card. Using Foam Adhesive tape or Stampin’ Dimensionals to coral reef. Glue the rock on the right side down and pop up the one on the left. Add a small amount to glue to tip of one plant and tuck between coral and rock. Glue two Coral fish under the reef and one on the reef. Glue the second plant down tucking behind the reef on the left side. Glue the three Daffodil fish above the reef. Note: using the smallest water painter brush carefully add a light wash of Coastal Cabana between the fish to cover the white area. Wipe off most of the water from your brush before coloring so ink will not bleed onto your fish. Using Stampin’ Dimensionals pop up the shark and admire your artwork!