hi everyone is Keren here with a water-filled shaker card tutorial enjoy
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I loved into graphic stock and went directly to the illustrations tab I
really wanted a small cute animal and I typed in seahorse and picked one of the
images and that had a lot of different sea animals
it's a fallen marine seamless pattern and I just downloaded it press download
button and it downloaded directly into my computer then I went back to
illustrations and this time I put wave because I wanted to have something
maritime so again I put wave and I started searching so there's a lot of
different types of ways I specifically illustrations because I wanted something
colorful and more graphic I didn't want a photograph and there's so many
different choices to choose from so you just have to scroll down and I just
continue going until I found the one I really liked and when I pick this and I
knew that I could create like a background to a card or to a scrapbook
layout so this is great because you can download these and use them for any type
of projects so once I picked mine and press download and then it went into my
file and then I could resizes and resize it any way I want and to make it fit my
card
for the maritime images I colored only the ones that I wanted I actually flip
the image so I could get the seahorse facing the other direction I wasn't sure
which direction I wanted the card so I kind of played around with all the
different elements I took a water brush from Prima and some
of the Patel dreams watercolor confections from prima as well to color
in the animals so all I did is just use darker and lighter tones and pick the
colors that I wanted to kind of color one of the seahorses I actually edited
the video to just show the actual images that I use in my card and how I painted
them and I cut all the other edited all the other ones that I had painted
because I wasn't really sure which ones I was going to use then I actually took
another palette the tropical palace from the watercolor confections as well and
use the darker colors to color in a few different elements and images like the
sea as you can see as if color some other fish on this paper but I ended up
not using something to show you how it colors and but I basically use the same
technique it would have been great if I would have had this Zig color clear
markers because they have such a small tip and it would have been really easy
to paint these inside and color them in with the water like watercolor
techniques but I didn't have those so this was what I chose to do and as you
can see here I'm painting the mirror image of it and I'm actually painting
the fish which is the one I actually used for the car
I am linking all the products below in the description area as well as I will
also link this big clear markers because those would have been perfect for this
but I just don't have them I think I'm going to order myself a stair because
I've written it up here at that sorry because I really wanted to have these so
I can color it into Chris design as you can see I can resize the graphic stock
images to any size I want and I printed these on bristol board strap North
Bristol mixed-media Boheme paper which is a really thick kind of bristol board
and that helps when I added the watercolor so it wouldn't damage the
paper I just want to point out that this watercolor filled shaker card is not my
original idea I thought it's done online and I felt like I needed to create one
as well I really love the idea I thought was ingenious so what I did is I created
my own cheeky card kind of added my own twist to it and added my own elements
but the idea of putting water is not my original idea if somebody else did it
I'm not really sure soon but I just thought you examples online on YouTube
and I just really felt like I wanted to create this really fun card finally
although I don't show it on this video I ended up Suffolk cutting around all the
images I wanted and I got to cut around xq extra ones just to make sure because
I really wasn't sure how I wanted to design the card itself for the front end
of the card I took some Neenah white card stock this is the 90 pound and I
cut a circle out of tonic Studios nesting circle and then I measured out a
circle using watercolor cold pressed paper so I could create the bubble
behind the shaker card and using the blue color of the water colorful
sections the pastel green I painted inside the
circle that I had drawn with a pencil because that was going to be my
background behind the shaker card so I just went around and kind of created a
blue bubble inside the circle later on I realized that I had it was better if I
would have gone beyond the circle so I did paint a little bit more extra I took
a small Ziploc bag that stays perfectly in the center and then some 3d foam tape
and basically when I just measured with the back you see where it will bow and
then took a speedy foam tape and put it around the bag so it would kind of seal
the area where I was going to put this back so it wouldn't move and then I
actually put some more foam tape just so to raise the card and have it all even
once I had that area ready I took some of the spicy crab seaweed and basically
added in two different sides of my bubble and use some art glitter glue
which is has a really fine tip and it's a great for the steps project and I just
glued it to the background and this dries clear which is great I try to
think what sentiment would be good for this card and I figure that we just make
this a happy birthday card so I took my Fiskars the stamp platform
which is really great because you can put the stuff and I put the stamp
anywhere you want and then you don't have to press on it you can first the
check where it's going to go and then you press and I use my powder tool to
clean the area where I was going to stamp and then using my Versamark ink I
just think the stamp and then stamp it then I took my super fine ranger
embossing powder and just added it to my stamped area this was the embossing
powder is in a ball it was very easy to add there and then I heat set it this is
a thumb pendous and and of course with the links below in the description area
as well originally I thought I would put the station off the water bag but then I
decided to put it in the background behind so the water would kind of be on
top of the fish I also ended up adding an extra seaweed on the sides because I
thought it needed a little bit more for the composition
then I took the bag and I filled it with a little bit of water and also added
some sequins in blue color turquoise color from dress my craft because I want
to see pieces to kind of float in the water around the fish and I thought they
made it look really cute I added some more and then I made sure I feel the bag
really well making sure that I let some of the air out then I went ahead and
took off all the backings from my foam tape and set the front part where the
sentiment was on top of the back I did not glue the bag to the background
because that was going to be sealed in the back so I just folded the back of
down and then I took some scotch tape and just sealed it to the back really
well because I wanted to have the opportunity to be able to fill it with
more water if I needed to then I took the seahorse and I stuck it to the front
of the card and I thought it looked really cute right there on the side
finally it was time to assemble the card so I took some white cardstock and fold
it in half I cut the card to a bit smaller than stick by sticks and I also
cut around my graphic soft image and I was able to use to have a trim around it
so you really don't even need to have two layers you can just cut a trim with
the white because you can print it on white paper I just printed on anemic
cardstock as well for now I found one I wasn't able to use my tape runner on the
white paper because it was watercolor and it was very sick so I ended up using
glue and just glued it on top thank you so much for watching if you like my
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