We are thrilled to have Tina Krauer joining us for a special series featuring the Sea Friends stamp set. Welcome to day 2!

Tina is sharing a different way to use the Sea Friends stamp set each day, for 4 days. The best part is, one lucky commenter will win the set!

Leave a comment on any of the Sea Friends posts on the YNS blog or Tina’s blog by 5/9/19 at midnight est for the chance to win the Sea Friends stamp set. The winner will be announced on the YNS blog on 5/11/19.

I stamped the whale from the “Sea Friends” set and colored it with aqua marker pens. The tiny dot details are made with an edding pen called „Pastel Pen-Soft white“ it is not as bright compared to a posca pen. The edding pen stays a bit translucent, I really like that effect.

I cut out some water fountains by hand from a piece of vellum and adhered it to the blowhole… I love adding details like that 🙂
My ocean on the background panel is made with distress oxides – this time I used blueprint sketch, cracked pistachio and wilted violet. But first I heat embossed the fun sentiment “get whale soon” with white embossing powder.

Maybe you are interested in how I created those waves, so I made step by step photos of the process. Beside the oxides you need a wave stencil, a water sprayer, white pigment ink, a permanent white pencil and that edding pastel pen I used on the whale. 

First, I spritzed some water on the whole panel to create some splashes for more texture. Let this dry completely before you continue with the next step. Your heat gun might be helpful getting your panel completely dry very quickly. So here comes the waves. First, I stenciled some white pigment ink onto my panel. Then I used the white pencil to brighten up the area even more and make it kind of “sealed”. Next I used the pastel pen marker to draw little dots along the wave shape and this one is wet again. If you use it without the white pencil in between, the white dots would absorb completely the color of the distress oxides; this can be pretty, but I wanted them to stay soft white. I hope this helps you recreate the look.
The final step was to adhere my whale and my card was done! 🙂

Now head on over to Tina’s blog for a close up look at her card. Plus leave a a comment there too for another entry in to the Sea Friends giveaway. Then, stop back here tomorrow for card #3 featuring the Sea Friends stamp set.

Happy Stamping!