I can’t believe it’s been a month since my last blog post, I’ve being having some back pain which has meant less crafting and no inclination to photograph anything I have made.I have to admit it hasn’t stopped me increasing the craft stash though. My big sister Marie at Baileyrosy.com has been nagging me to update my blog and who I am to refuse.

Marie bought some Tim Holtz dies and having seen what she created I thought I’d buy the same and have a go, since this time she was mean and had hers sent to herself in Greece rather than to me.
Firstly I got some alcohol inks (or alcoholic inks as Marie prefers to call them) and had a great time using Pinata inks and some cheap metallic alcohol inks I bought on Amazon on some coated card-stock. I added some some alcohol blending solution and set to creating some interesting aquatic colours using my air puffer. I used the same method but on acetate to create an ocean.
Once dry I ran the Tim Holtz angler fish and clown fish through my Big Shot and then layered the pieces together. This was such fun, seeing how I could make interesting looking fish from my inking session as I never know quite how things will turn out.
I cut the Waffle Flower Crafts under the sea panel die from cream cardstock and then layered the acetate “ocean between a piece of plain cardstock and the panel die. I added some foam circles under the fish and popped them onto the card and using some clear flat back dots from my stash I added some bubbles. Finally I stamped and cut the sentiment from Purple Onion designs and affixed it to the card.
Mabel of course wanted to be involved, she’s loving the fame and who can blame her, she’s more popular than me!

I’ve decided to enter into the following challenge
https://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/2022/05/hls-may-anything-goes-with-dies.html

and also
https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2022/05/challenge-62-anything-goes-with.html

and finally https://mynbus.blogspot.com/2022/05/nbus-challenge-38.html

Why not pop over and see what all the other lovely crafters are up to.
Thanks for stopping by, I’m off to create some more mess!
Love Kal X