I had already made my sample for the TLC challenge this week which you can find HERE, but then I offered to make a card for little Miles whom Jen referred to in her upload for the TLC last week. I couldn't do a super-hero card, but since green is the colour for liver cancer, I could make a green crocodile.
For my background I used an old jumbo wheel with bubble wrap on it. The waves are cut from a very, very old scrap of textured painted paper, I think it was textured with a comb. After fussy-cutting the croc, I embossed him with an ef and added Glossy Accents to his eyes. The linen panel seemed a bit bare after I'd assembled the card and I was wishing I'd stamped grass on it first, so I just drew on some reeds with markers. Added a couple of little fishies swimming in the water, edged it with a blue marker and called it done. Posting it on the way in to work today.
Date: Sunday, July 23, 2017 GMT Views: 1476
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Sun, Jul 23, 2017 @ 9:11 PM
WOW! and then there's the clever water from big embossed rickrack. Love your little embossed alligator and colorful fishies... Very cool, hand-inking your grasses edging your water...another CLEVER idea! :-)
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Mon, Jul 24, 2017 @ 5:48 AM
Cute scene and you get bonus points for that fussy cut croc. Awesome.
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Mon, Jul 24, 2017 @ 1:28 PM
I love the rickrack shape for the water! Great fun!!
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Mon, Jul 24, 2017 @ 2:15 PM
Very cute...great dotted bg and the ric rac water is perfect! I didn't see any crocs on my vacation but floated above many fish....also saw a water snake, a loon, eagle, hawks, woodpeckers, deer, many robins, cardinals, and tons of mean nasty flies who attacked us at every opportunity! Grrr...I'll send ya some pictures soon.....we had fun!