“U” is for Underwater

Animals, Doodlebug, Holidays, love, masculine, Ocassions, Thinking of You/Miss You, Tim Holtz/Ranger, Valentine's Day

Hello friends!  It’s already closer to the end of our first month for 2025 and I hope you’re staying warm and/or cozy where you are!  

Today I’m excited to share that I’ve joined the Alphabet Challenge design team!  I’ve been playing along with the challenges for a few years, so this will be a fun one!  Please be sure to check out the challenge blog to see how to play as we go through the alphabet letters every-other week (fortnight) for each new challenge.

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For this challenge, we are at the letter “U” for Underwater and here’s what I’ve come up with:

Now how cute are these smiling underwater critters?!  It was hard to believe that going through my stash that I didn’t have much of any underwater critters besides mermaids, but last year I saw this adorable Doodlebug Sea Life stamp set on sale and decided to add it to my collection.  This is the first time I’ve used it.

For the background:  I’ve taken my Distress Oxide inks and ink blended the colors Salty Ocean, Mermaid Lagoon and Blueprint sketch over some Bristol Smooth watercolor paper.  I sprayed it with water and blotted it up with a paper towel.  I used a stitched wave die cut border at the top and another wavy landscape border die for the sand at the bottom with kraft cardstock.  I’ve used markers and gel pens to create “dots” for the sand and then attached it to the ink blended panel.  Once I had it all attached, I cut out the entire panel with a stitched rectangle die and then attached it to an A2 sized top folding kraft card base.

I stamped several of the images and colored them with Copic markers and die cut them out with each coordinating die.  The “seaweed” was part of the coordinating die set that I inked over in green Oxide inks and then attached all of the images to the underwater scene.

Lastly, I white heat embossed a sentiment from the stamp set (it says:  “with oceans & oceans of love”) in the top corner of the card base and stamped some blue solid hearts from the set for “bubbles”.  I couldn’t resist adding some googly eyes to the crab too.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my card today and hop on over to the challenge blog to play along with us!  I look forward to seeing your underwater creations in the gallery!

Thanks so much for dropping in and I’ll see you tomorrow for my monthly Art Journal Page!

Challenges:

  1. Allsorts – Close to Nature/Anything Goes
  2. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2503 Anything Goes
  3. Little Red Wagon – #791 Can You Feel the Love Tonight (love theme)
  4. Critter Crazy – Anything Goes with Featured Creature
  5. Crafty Animals – #90 Anything Goes with Animal(s)

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22 thoughts on ““U” is for Underwater”

  1. Brilliant underwater card, Vicki! Gorgeous background and great use of dies. Love your critters and I am a fan of googly eyes.

    xxx Margreet

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  2. The smiling faces on those underwater fish just make me grin and I really like the cool blue waters. Congrats on joining the DT and you’re out of the gate with such a fun and creative card. I love the little crab with those googlie eyes too. It’s been quite cold here this past week but we’re supposed to get above freezing this weekend. I know it’s been bitter cold where you are too, so stay warm and happy crafting my friend. Take care.

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  4. I love it when I am “able to use stuff I have never used”” these sea creatures re adorable – especially the crab with the google eyes – I use google eyes as often as I can – they just seem to make the card. Still cod here but warm trend expected this weekend. My friend is home from CO.

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  5. Very sweet Ocean inspired creation and the google eyes a fun finishing touch, perfect for our Close to Nature theme at Allsorts, many thanks for joining us.

    B x

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  6. Super cute – I totally love this! It’s always fun to break out a new stamp set in your stash that you’ve never used… I find those quite frequently and I am committed to using stuff I already have in my stash also! Congrats on your new challenge team gig – they are lucky to have you!

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  7. Vicki, what an awesome card. That blue background of water caught my eye right away! Fun little fish too. Just delightful and beautifully put together. LOVE IT!

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  8. That under the sea card is great. That crab with the google eyes is quite cute and eye catching. Have a super weekend. hugs-Erika

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  9. Fabulous card, your sea creatures are adorable and lovely background, like those heart bubbles! Glad you shared it at All sorts challenge!

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  11. What a delightful underwater card, Vicki! The smiling critters and the vibrant background create such a cheerful scene. I love the use of Distress Oxide inks and the added details like the googly eyes on the crab. Congratulations on joining the Alphabet Challenge design team!

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  14. So very cute Vicki, I love the textured water and all those fun little fish and the crab with his googly eyes stole my heart, so fabulous and fun..

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  15. Congrats on your new DT! How fun! Love your underwater card- and the cute smiles on the fishes- and the eyes on your crab! How very fun!

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  16. This is so cute!! I love all the adorable little critters you used, specially that crab with his googly eyes!! Thanks for playing with Critter Crazy Challenge.

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  20. Tee hee….I’ve glanced at this title several times, and kept seeing ‘underwear’ – time to get my eyes checked! What a darling little scene you have created! Thanks for sharing it with your fans!!!!

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  21. WOW! Fantastic card! I love the blue of the sea and how wonderfully it works with the craft paper. These underwater animals look wonderful and I love the moving eyes of the crab.

    xx

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