Seagulls

Yay, it's sketch challenge Wednesday on SCS! Here's the link to today's sketch from Roxie. I like it!!

The awesome seagull image is one that my friend Janice brought along this past weekend for us to play with. I'm sorry, I don't have the name of the stamp, but it's by Inkadinkadoo and I believe she said she found it at AC Moore. Thanks Janice!!

The image was colored with a combination of copic markers and prisma pencils. The prisma pencils were blended with gamsol and stumps that I FINALLY bought at the stamp show this past weekend. Up until then, I had been using baby oil to blend prismas...either product works just fine, but I think I like the gamsol just a little more now that I've tried the two ways. Oh, and the gamsol that I bought from Inky Antics at the show does NOT have any odor or fumes. {smile}

I stamped the image twice so I could use one for the base image and one for popping up on dimensionals. The larger white base layer is sponged in creamy caramel, and then I used the speckle stamp from the Itty Bitty Backgrounds set stamped in Basic Brown.

The edges of the inside panel are sponged in Creamy Caramel, and then I stamped some starfish, sand dollars, and shells in So Saffron and Basic Brown from the Crafty Secrets Seaside set.

Recipe ~
Stamps: Inkadinkadoo Seagulls (not sure of exact name), SU Itty Bitty Backgrounds, Crafty Secrets Seaside
Paper: Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, White, Real Red
Ink: Versafine Black Onyx, Copics
Accessories: Prisma Pencils with Gamsol and stumps, White Brads, Real Red Striped Ribbon, Dimensionals, Horizontal Slot Punch, Sponge
Technique: Gamsol, Sponging

Happy Hump Day!