Explore the Ocean Clear Card

Hello friends! Today I have a clear card to share with you made with gorgeous stamps from my friend Nicole Wright. I am so happy for Nicole, who has designed two stamp sets so far and I am sure there are more to come.

The stamp set is called Upstream, and made by Emerald Creek. I just love these Koi fish and had fun making a card where they are placed in their natural environment, water. We had some of these fish when I grew up, and the stamps also made me remember a big dam that one of our relatives had, which had really big Koi fish, but they were hard to spot. We used to stand and look for them for a long time.

Here you can see all the six stamps in the set. I didn't use the swirly wave ones to the left. The fish were stamped on the smooth side of Ranger's watercolour paper.

I smeared Distress Inks on my craft sheet, misted with water and watercoloured them. Ripe Persimmon was a great colour for the fish, and I used Spiced Marmalade and Candied Apple here and there for variety.

The background is a folded piece of acetate, embossed in Tim Holtz Bubbles folder. I love the look of embossed acetate. The sentiment comes from the Adventure Words Script set.

At the bottom of the card, I placed a piece of vellum, embossed in the Dot-Matrix folder (my all time favouite embossing folder). To make it look more like sand, I tore a piece of kraft-core cardstock and placed it behind. The sea grass was die cut with the Holiday Greens set, from two different shades of kraft-core. They were carefully sanded and inked.

 

The big fish was adhered with foam dots.

It is hard to photograph transparent cards, you can see the effect better here. I really like the flowing/moving shapes of the fish in this set and it also makes it possible to can fit more stamped images on a card, since they can swim around each other. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Happy stamping!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Stamps: Nicole Wright/Emerald Creek: Upstream

Tim Holtz Sizzix ADVENTURE WORDS	Tim Holtz Sizzix HOLIDAY GREENS Thinlits Die 658759	Tim Holtz Sizzix WAVES & BUBBLES	Sizzix Texture Fades Embossing Folders 2PK - Dot-Matrix & Gridlock Set	Tim Holtz Distress Ink CANDIED APPLE
Tim Holtz Distress Ink RIPE PERSIMMON	Tim Holtz Distress Ink SPICED MARMALADE	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD GATHERED TWIGS	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK	Ranger WATERCOLOR PAPER Inkssentials
Tim Holtz Core'dinations KRAFT CORE NOSTALGIC	Worldwin Papers 48 LB VELLUM 8.5 x 11	Tim Holtz Idea-ology CHITCHAT STICKERS	Tim Holtz TINY ATTACHER Stapler	Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger
Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS	Tim Holtz SANDING GRIP	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Sizzix MINT Standard Cutting Pads	Sizzix PRECISION BASE PLATE
Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET	Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 4 x 4.5	Ranger MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS	Hero Arts SMALL BLOCK TRIO CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCKS

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