Saturday Sketch and blog candy: Turtlely Awesome

YEAH!!!!

My Michael Strong sea turtle stamp

has finally crawled into my mail box.

This calls for a celebration!

I have one extra stamp (in the package there

are two stamps: the turtle and the seaweed)

for a give-away

How can you enter?

1. become or are a follower of my blog

2. leave a comment and make sure I can email you

3. any suggestions for turtle sentiments??

On Saturday August 3 I will announce the winner.

Now here is my first turtle card.

I made it for a sketch challenge

 on  the Friday Sketch challenge Blog.

Wondering about some of the techniques I used?

Here follows a description:

The background of the card is made with alcohol ink

and I used the colors citrus, pool and stream.

If you like this, but you don't have alcohol ink,

you can use my background.

by saving above picture to your

computer with a click of your right mouse button.

The seaweed on the alcohol ink background is

embossed with lime green embossing powder.

The sentiment is printed with the

computer in the font called skwirl

(you can find it free on www.dafont.com)

I stamped and embossed the turtle in black

and colored the image with distress ink in the

colors peacock feathers, broken china and 

mowed lawn by putting a drop on my craft sheet

and adding a drop of water.

To give rhe card some extra bling there

are a few sticky gemstones on his shield and

on the background.

Thanks for looking and leaving your comment.

Have a creative day!