2 shark-tastic birthday cards with Kaja

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I made two pretty similar card that are super cute!

Take a look at the first one:

For both of the cards I started by coloring in the cuties. I stamped a bunch of images from Jawsome, Under the sea and Shell-ebration stamp sets and colored them in using alcohol markers. As usual I used three shades of the same color family to make a nice shadowing for each color.

Take a look at the second card:

Then, I did the background. The first thing I did was a blue ombre effect, which I made using distress inks and water to get a different intensity of colors.

Once the background was dry I used a stencil called Underwater sun rays and a white ink pad to get the sun ray effect. I must say I really love doing this for underwater scenes.

For the first card, I die cut a gray frame with a new European window die. I decided to make the image and the frame a bit off-set for more interest. Then I glued the images in using the SK liquid glue and some foam tape.

Then, I added a sentiment which reads ‘have a shark-tastic birthday’ from Jawsome stamp set which I stamped on a gray card stock. I trimmed it down to a nice strip that I placed under the underwater image.

On the second card I went with a simple ‘Happy birthday’ sentiment that you can find in Cactus hugs stamp set. I decided to use this one since it’s smaller than the one used on the first card.

The last thing I added on both of the cards were some clear drops which really bring these two cards to life!

Thank you so much for joining me!

Kaja

SUPPLIES:

• Studio Katia – SHELL-EBRATION
• Studio Katia – UNDER THE SEA
• Studio Katia – JAWSOME
• Studio Katia – CACTUS HUGS
• Studio Katia coordinating dies – SHELL-EBRATION
• Studio Katia coordinating dies – UNDER THE SEA
• Studio Katia coordinating dies – JAWSOME
• Studio Katia dies – EUROPEAN WINDOW
• Studio Katia stencils – UNDERWATER SUN RAYS
• Studio Katia – GLUE
• Studio Katia – CLEAR DROPS