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Wow, this was fun, or, hmm… well it was something.It taught me a lot, but it was not without it's frustrations and I'm not really satisfied with the results but I just don't have the stamina to try it again without a long vacation first. LOLFirst I stamped the frog and coloured the frog, then I masked the frog and stamped the fish bowl.Then I made masks for the fish and starfish and placed them inside the bowl, placed a mortise mask( I think that's what it was) around the outside of the fish bowl and sponged in the water using broken china distress ink. The fish and starfish were clear stamps so I thought it would be easy to line them up and stamp them in the places left blank in the fish bowl but, not quite as easy as I'd hoped. One side of the star had a halo which I sort of hid when colouring, by colouring outside the lines. Then I stamped the snorkeling cat. I made a mask for this cat but decided that the only way I was going to get this lined up properly with all the parts like his hands and snorkel etc. was to make the mask see through, so I would know where everything was underneath, so I stamped it on an acetate sheet with Stayz On and cut it out.Cutting this out of a clear sheet, with all kinds of distracting stuff showing through from underneath was …interesting. Put the masks back on the cat, and the frog, and the bowl, and scribbled in the blue and beige background stuff with Copics markers. Even with the masks on, some of the ink seeped under in places on the cat.I cheated and used a white chalk pencil to go over those spots and it did a pretty good job of hiding the misplaced blue. I coloured in the cat using more chalk pencils and added some clear shine to the top part of the bowl with a Spica pen. It doesn't show at all in the picture but does just a little in person. Then I went back with the Copics and touched up some spots where the blue did not get up as close as I wanted to the cat or the bowl.All of this is in picture one, and here ends my work for Daniel's challenge. As per Daniel's challenge guidelines “Your project may be a card, atc, tag or other item.” this is an “other item”.I then took that “other item” and turned it into a card which does not qualify for this challenge because it includes layered embellishments. That is picture 2. What I did wrong or wouldn't do again:I stamped the frog in green and that was a mistake..this is a nice stamp with fine detail but stamping it in green meant that when I coloured it in, and surrounded it with blue background that detail didn't give enough contrast and just disappeared. Next time I'd stamp everything in black. Using Copics for the background may not be the best, they tend to bleed a bit (on this paper at least) and you need to apply them by scribbling back and forth I think an up and down sponging technique wuld work better with the masks.
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