Altenew • Stamp Focus. Painted Jellyfish

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Hi there! I was on Altenew blog the other day sharing three cards using a new stamp set – Painted Jellyfish.Can we have a moment and talk about this stamp set? I should admit that sea life images are my weakness. I’m instantly sold when it comes to stamps of this theme. But these jellyfishes … they’re so perfectly realistic and cool. Oh boy, I cannot believe this set is real 🙂 Jellyfishes maybe not very pleasant creatures to meat walking along sea coast.

BLACK AND GOLD

The moment I saw this set I knew I’ll do it in black and gold. I recently got addicted to black and gold card designs (you can see them here and here) and this set I just had to do this was as well.I stamped the bigger jellyfish onto a white panel, stamping the bottom layer using Jet Black ink and the middle and top layers I embossed in gold, using two different gold powders of different shades. I have unhealthy amount o gold embossing powders in my stash. Got them while was looking for my perfect one. I know found the ONE (it’s a Hero Arts Gold Powder), but still  have all others. They come handy when I need different shades of gold 🙂The part of the sentiment then was stamped in black below the jellyfish. Then I adhered the panel onto another one, made out of Gold Mirror Cardstock, which in turn was adhered onto a black card base. I added the second part of the sentiment white embossed on a stripe of black cardstock and several sequins to finish off my card.

I really like combination of gold and black and double embossing I made for the jellyfish. In fact – you’ll see layered embossing in the following two cards as well.

WHITE EMBOSSED ON VELLUM

For second card I went for more so to speak natural design – jellyfishes in their undersea environment.
They were white embossed onto a vellum and then die-cut using matching die.  Here I also used white embossing powders of different colors, I did the same for the vase here. Which is maybe hard to see on the photo. Although using only one powder would work as well, it adds some relief anyways.Onto a white panel I created background by covering it with several shades of Distress inks (Tumbled Glass and Broken China). Then I splattered it with water using my beloved Distress Sprayer, Distress inks reacted with water and moved, I then blotted them off with paper towel to dry. When my panel was completely dry I white embossed the sentiment and foam mounted it onto a white card base.Finally I adhered the vellum jellyfishes onto the panel and added several clear droplets of different sizes.

LAYERED CLEAR EMBOSSING

For the third card I also went for undersea scene, but this time I wanted to recreate a more realistic look of these creatures, which are transparent. I did this by layering clear embossing and inking the background between layers. I once showed this technique here. Now I’m thinking maybe I need to make another video, with voice over and using jellyfishes..First I slightly inked a white panel with Worn Lipstick and Mermaid Lagoon Distress ink, let ink dry completely and clear embossed the outline images of jellyfishes. Then I inked over with the same Distress inks again. I clear embossed the bottom layer of the creatures and again inked over with Distress inks. I skipped the middle layer and clear embossed the top one. And again I covered the whole panel with Distress inks, this time using Picked Raspberry in the spot I used Worn Lipstick before. 

Then I splattered water, let the inks move and blotted them off to dry. I white embossed the sentiment and foam mounted the panel onto a white card base. And again clear droplet were my embellishments of choice.I really like how the these turned out, with different color for each layer. I think it replicates to some level the look they have in real life.Hope you like my cards and got ideas of how you can use this amazing stamp set.

SUPPLIES

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