Sunday 28 April 2013

Aquarium

The new letter in the dictionary challenge is A - it took me ages to find a word - there are a lot of boring or unsuitable A words it seems! Anyway I decided on aquarium and a plan soon came to mind....

I used the appropriately named Aqua colour paint dabber on the background; I then found a plant stamp suitable to use as a fish tank plant and stamped that in Mowed Lawn and Forest Moss distress ink. I stamped the two fish - one is Paper Artsy the other is Inkadinkado. Then I drew some bubbles with a fine liner pen and then used clear gloss to make 3D and more like water. I used a craft nib to colour in the fish with barn door, spiced marmalade and salty ocean distress inks. Finally I used a little peacock feathers around the edge.


Here is the link to the Craft Barn

17 comments:

  1. Oh super duper page and word, love the fish. I have 4 words to choose from for special days and can't quite decide. Ho Hum BJ

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  2. Ohhhhhhh what a great choice of word and such a great picture too, my mind always goes blank when it comes to choosing my word. xxx Annie

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  3. What a good choice - my dictionary had very few suitable A words, too!! Love your fishes....

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  4. Great word choice and that's an awesome fish on the right.

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  5. Loving your choice of word... wonderful 'A' pages. Like how you have stamped your aquarium plants :)

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  6. Great choice of word and colour scheme - those fish are lovely and the plants look so realistic!

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  7. Lovely pages, love the bubbles and that colourful fish on the right

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  8. Wonderful fish images and a beautiful marine background

    Love Chrissie x

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  9. Great pages, the fish images are beautiful.

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  10. An aquarium inside your dictionary!...Well, it looks more like an art journal book, but I just couldn't help imagining turning to the page and finding an aquarium inside a dictionary!

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  11. What a brilliant word to choose, I love you pages Vicky. The fish are delightful and your seaweed was inspired, fab job.
    Hugs x

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  12. Great idea - love the bubbles in 3D and the fish look very happy to me...

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  13. This is such a fun word and you have illustrated it beautifully. The fish look awesome and the bubbles are very cool. The stamp for the plants at the bottom works so well.

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  14. Fabulous page, love the fish and the plants at the bottom:)
    Val x

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  15. Great page , love your aquarium with the fish and the bubbles.

    Sylv xx

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  16. Love the plants swaying in the water. Fab page :)

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  17. oh this is so cute. Well done
    Thanks for playing with us at the Craft Barn
    Izzy

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