Under Sea Mixed Media Card

My cousin and his lovely wife had their baby a few days a go. They both love the sea so I thought I'd do a sea theme card for their  new baby Cadan to welcome him to the world. 

I started with a small piece of scrap mount board, then I randomly placed dry wall tape. 

Homemade texture paste was used next to help adhere and set a 'broken' frame and a few of the big shells so they disappear into the background. After that came one of my favourite mediums, Garcia Glass Beads. I love these for sea themes! :)

(Excuse the compass, decided the piece looked better without it)

Then I applied the rest of the sea bits and began to spray paint using Prima Colour Bloom Sprays in Colbolt, Tangerine, Lime Wedge, Soft Teal and Glistening Waves.

Here's the result of that:

Very shimmery and a big mess of colours, but it did look stunning in certain lights. 

Next came the knocking back bit. Without a shadow of a doubt PaperArtsy Chalk Paints in Nougat and Snowflake are my favourite for this technique, cannot fault them. I did go back again and add some more intensity of colour and knock back gain. You just keep going until it looks right :)

Then to add some sparkle to the top layer, more glass beads and some Rock Candy Distress Stickles. Shame you can't really see it in the pictures though.

Here's a close up of the end result:

Voila - done :) xx