This is for MIX73 - Round and Round. I really didn't think I'd get anything going with this when I started out to follow Lydia's instructions. I sprayed some watercolor paper with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and then did a basic wrinkle-free Distress technique using several other shades of blue. I did my rough circles using watercolor pencils in three colors, and then used a wet brush to pull them out. Then I inked two glue stick caps and a mini mister cap with black ink and stamped my black circles, and added in highlights using a white prismacolor pencil. Surprise! It didn't look half bad. I already had these fish sitting around and thought they would work with the BG, so glued them to rectangles of thick mulberry paper for some texture. I also cut some turquoise vellum into strips using deckle edge scissors and xyron-ed them down. Three sequins for embellishment. A layer of DP behind the main layer, everything tilted and that's all she wrote.
Lydia, you always come up with the most interesting challenges!
Thanks for looking.
Date: Friday, June 20, 2014 GMT Views: 776
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Registered: July 9, 2008 Location: Stars Fell on Alabama Posts: 74759
Fri, Jun 20, 2014 @ 10:51 AM
Oh, what a nice background you achieved. I like your ocean water look. Pretty fish on the mulberry paper, too.
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Registered: November 20, 2007 Location: Northumberland, UK Posts: 13285
Fri, Jun 20, 2014 @ 10:57 AM
Great background for the fishy images and those strips of vellum work really well over it! Love the bronzy toned sequins to tie in with the kraft base, too!
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 131551
Fri, Jun 20, 2014 @ 11:02 AM
Your background has a wonderful watery bubbly feel with the blues and circles. I love the use of the mulberry paper - and the fine check background. A great guy card.
Registered: August 15, 2007 Location: Twin Cities MN Posts: 50476
Fri, Jun 20, 2014 @ 12:05 PM
First off those fish are fabulous..I would use them anywhere and everywhere! I like the aqua tones to your bg and I wondered where those sunburst type shapes came from..colored vellum silly me..great idea! Love the tilt (Robin where you obsessed with the Tilt-a-whirl as a child?) and the b/w tiny check and those sequins...perfect (I think I have some of those in 3 different colors....) ;)
Registered: August 1, 2006 Location: Missouri Posts: 26794
Fri, Jun 20, 2014 @ 2:24 PM
This is awesome. I love how you used the fish with your circles. I thought they looked like bubbles and after I finished my cards I thought... "wish I had used them with fish" instead I used butterflies, which is so incongruent.
Registered: March 31, 2008 Location: Eastlake, OH Posts: 22598
Fri, Jun 20, 2014 @ 5:14 PM
I love what you did with this Robin! That fun background and your circles are the perfect backdrop for the fish! Love the hand made papers too! What a fantastic take on this challenge!