Santa Jaws

Here comes santa jaws, here comes santa jaws..... I now have that stuck in my head and can hear myself humming the song as I am typing this lol. 

I had an idea for the background and one I used earlier in the year, however I could not find the alcohol ink paper in my disaster of a craftroom so I used good old fashioned glossy photo paper and I love how it turned out. Sometimes a disaster turns into a revelation lol.

I am writing this post at the end of November and I am hoping by the time it publishes that the virus numbers have started to fall and the tiers have been lowered and we can spread some christmas cheer.

Edited : as this published I was surprised by the optimism of my post and realised hindsight is a wonderful thing, sending big hugs to everyone affected by the situation here in the UK and the rest of the world too 

Ingredients

Image: santa jaws from Avery Elle

Dies: mft blueprints

Inks: peacock feathers, blueprint sketch, salty ocean, tumbled glass

Friends with Fins

I have been trying to use older stamp sets during the lockdown and this is one of those sets. I intended originally in just making the shark card but once i had made the background and decided on the design I realised I could cut the background into four and make four cards at once.

I wish I had kept the die in the horizontal orientation but they all still work ok.

The background used a technique that I learnt from Stephanie Klauck at an MFT retreat, I used alcohol ink cardstock and ink smooshed distress oxides onto it, drying between layers and once it was dry it was really chalky and dull, the magic happens when you add the distress glaze over the top and wipe off the excess, it brings all the layers to the top and makes it look like water.

Ingredients

Image: "friends with fins" from MFT stamps

Sentiment : from creative stamping

Dies: Rectangle peek a boo and a2 stitched rectangle stax both from MFT

Distress oxides: blueprint sketch, salty ocean, peacock feathers, tumbled glass and mermaid lagoon