Calee CT - Seahorse Plaque

Hello ,  this week I have  a bit of a different  project to share . A small wooden plaque , just before these  gorgeous stamps and papers were released I was on holiday by the sea and saw lots of sea themed decor. So this is my home made souvenir 

My first step was to choose a catalyst paper to cover my plaque. I did this by tracing the shape of the plaque onto the paper ,cutting it out then gluing it down . For this I use gel medium , but PVA glue or Matt medium would work just as well .

When the glue was thoroughly dry I sanded down all of the excess paper from the edges .For this I used a combination of an emery board and a small file.

Next I gave my board some texture using  Dinkable from set 15 and some white texture paste ,using up the rest of the paste randomly on my plaque .

I then added to my background with some of the worker stamps in the Doodle Art Seahorse set using Distress inks Blueprint Sketch and Picked Raspberry and some stencilling with a Dinkable from set 2 and Mowed Lawn Distress ink .

Next I created some sea weed using the leaves from the Journaling Essentials #7 stamp set . I didn’t want the white card to show through my stamping so created an inked background adding Distress oxide Twisted citron to my combination of inks ,then stamped the leaves over the top using Blueprint Sketch .

The leaves were then cut out  and added to elements from both  Doodle Art Seahorse and Fishes stamp sets  ,which had been previously coloured with a combination of Ecoline watercolour pens and distress inks .

These elements were then added to my plaque some glued down and others raised slightly with some double sided foam tape , to build the dimension .

Finally to finish my plaque I added  the sentiment from the seahorse set and some real sea shells and sea themed beads ,which I think go well with the design but I also think the design would  work just as well with out them ,I just can resist adding more bits and pieces !

I’m really pleased with how my plaque turned out and it will definitely remind me of my sea side holiday.

Thank you for taking a look ,I hope you found this project interesting .

Happy crafting 

Calee

The products used to create my plaque were :

Papers - Rainbow Boards catalyst collage 

Dinkables set 2 and 15 

Distress inks - Mowed Lawn 

Blueprint Sketch 

Picked Raspberry 

Distress oxide Twisted Citron 

Stamps - Art stamps journaling Essentials #7 

Doodle Art Seahorse 

Doodle Art Fishes 

A small wooden plaque , some white texture paste and an assortment of sea shells and beads .