Under the sea Art Board

Back in May during our crafting retreat we had a session on making an art board.  I had put it to one side for a few months and last week finally got to finishing it.

I started by using gesso the board to prime it and then adding some pan pastels. I sealed the pan pastel surface and then stamped the Jelly fish, seahorses, turtles and fish. 

I used Crackle paste through a stencil over the background to give an impression of bubbles.

I stamped the jelly fish and one of the turtles again on card stock coloured and cut them out.  I added Vintage Beeswax embossing powder to give more of a 3D effect for the images and also with the Jelly fish I wanted a liquid effect. The jellyfish tentacles are a mixture of black fine liner, white fine liner and ART Alchemy blue gold acrylic paint.

I also used the encrusted jewel technique on the remaining sea horses and small turtle.  The embossing powders were all from Emerald Creek. I used a mixture of their Baked Textures and the Allure embossing powders.

I glued the shells to the board using a hot glue gun, gesso them and used some Art Alchemy paints in black, blues and gold. Once dry I used a versamark pad to smoosh over the edge of the board and the shells and added some embossing powders.

I'm entering this for the following challenges

Craft Stampers anything goes

Emerald Creek the great outdoors #ECAUG2018

Moore mixed media anything goes (optional brights)

Paper Artsy 14 Baked Textures

Card Recipe
Stamps: Local King Sea life (5), Visible image Dare to swim, Katzelkraft Seahorse.
Paper: Art Board (7X8)
Ink: Ranger archival
Accessories: Sea shells, Carabelle stencil, Ranger crackle paste, Emerald creek embossing powders - Dirty Sand, Weathered Wood, Burned Copper Leaves, Patina Oxide, Ancient Amber, Banff Slate, Charred Gold, Northern lights, Art Alchemy acrylic paints sparks- Raven Black, Dragons Eye, Magical Pond, Opal Magic- Blue gold, Glitter, sequins, prills.
Techniques: Mixed media art board