Under the Sea 'Sunken Ships'

To make this project you will need:-

Several Sheets of white card

Brusho's 
Pause By Patty A5 Stencil Ship Wreck
Pause By Patty A6/ATC Ship Wreck
Pause By Patty A5 Ships Wheel

Glossy Accents
Black Pen
White Gel Pen
Katie Skilton's Under the Sea Dies
Distress Ink - Peacock Feathers
Distress Ink - Wild Honey
Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
Distress Oxide - Walnut Stain
Purple Acrylic paint
Bleach
Be Creative Wonder Sheets
Nuvo Crystal Drops - blue Lagoon

 Lets Begin

Begin by liberally wetting sheets of card and sprinkling them with Brusho, you want one with variation or red and oranges, one with greens and yellows and a blue. If u are wondering where the speckled effect on the red came from...I was doing this outside and the red was nearly dry when it started to rain, the speckles are raindrops ...cool effect though.

Attatch wonder sheets to the back of all 3 colours.

Using Katie Skilton's Under the Sea Dies, Die cut, many fish from the red

Many waves from the blue ( I did 8)

Loads of Seaweed from the green.

Add Glossy Accents to the fish and put to one side to dry. That's all the foreground prep completed, now to build the background.

Tear a piece of card in a wavy line and spritz with temporary adhesive.....fix to a second piece of card just over half way up. Liberally spray the top of the card with water and sprinkle with blue and green Brusho's. Allow to dry.

Once dry remove the 'stencil'

Using the A6 Ship Wreck stencil and very small amounts of thin bleach, stencil a ghostly image onto the Brusho'ed area.

Use the other half of the torn card and cover the ghost ship, using the distress inks, add a soft layer of Peacock feathers, a deep layer of wild Honey drawn down the card and edge with the vintage photo.

With the A5 Ship Wreck, create another ghostly image using bleach, dab dry with kitchen paper.

Apply a loose layer of Peacock Feathers over the bleach once the bleach is dried

Add in broken areas of purple acrylic paint to bring the ship into the foreground.

Use the same combination of inks and torn card to start creating sand dunes coming towards you.

In the closest dunes it is no longer necessary to add the blue depth.

Using Distress oxide - Walnut stain and hints of vintage photo, stencil the A5 Ships Wheel into the foreground.

With your black and white pens, apply light and dark shading to the when to make it more prominent.

This is the scarey bit, trim away the edges and base of the card as desired...don't be afraid to chop off bits of ship and wheel. Your Background is now complete and ready to be decorated with the die cuts.

Separate your seaweed die cuts into lights and dark and begin to build the foreground, removing the yellow backing from the wonder sheet and sticking the darker cuts down initially.. don't be afraid to go over the edge, the excess can be trimmed away.

Layer in Fish and waves

start adding the lighter seaweed for an illusion of depth

Once happy, Trim away the excess.

Now add in as many or as few fish as you desire, overlapping for depth.

Use the Nuvo Crystal Drops to create bubbles and let them dry...they will become slightly clear when dry for an amazing water look.

The finished picture...I hope you have enjoyed this blog.

Playing with Powertex, Steampunk style Memory Book

Good Morning, another roasty toasty day today which is great for drying out powertex projects....i havent taken many pics of this in progress as i got seriously caught up making it and forgot....as Leonie Pujol says 'Sos'. The cogs are a Sissix bigz die, the background is lead powertex and i have used some of their texture medium in this project, the feature of the book is the rust powder which gave the cogs that lovely rusty look...and the book a slighty vinegar stink lol. A big thanks to Hochanda for introducing me to the lovely media i used for this project.

TOP TIP: Personally i found that mixing a quantity of rust powder with powertex and storing it overnight in a tub so it can 'go off' gave great rust, you will have to stir again before use but its worth it. Also after experimenting white vinegar mixed with water produces fab results. I sprayed the area i was working on and left it, once it looked vaguely dry i sprayed again, repeating until the rust was the colour i wanted...then i varnished.

Peeping inside the book, the inside cover has a faint rust to it and the pages are made from random papers, alot of which came in my secret santa bags at xmas lol.

This is the back of the book and only has 1 layer of cogs.

The Book Spine

This is the cover of the book which has a second layer of cogs, these were painted with gold powder mixed with varnish and then rusted.

So there it is...one of the reasons why im a rubbish blogger lol, too easily distracted. With hindsight the book is quite stiff and difficult to open, if i was to work on a similar project i think that covering the card book base with crumpled tin foil and rusting that will retain flexibility, then the cogs could be added as panels. Its a hefty peice but i love it and i hope you enjoy it too.