Under the sea at City Crafter Challenge

Hi there~

I have three cards for you today, and I am submitting one to City Crafter Challenge blog. The theme is under the sea. 

I recently acquired the Avery Elle stamp set Sea-prise!  I had fun coloring this sweet birthday shark as stamped. I used my laptop and printer to make the sentiment. (use a word processing program to write out your sentiment - highlight it in black and change the font color to white before printing. the size of your font determines the width of the highlight)

I wasn't done playing with him, this time I went darker and took away the party hat. I added some clouds as well.  This one I am submitting to City Crafters, its not quite cutesy and not nearly as sinister as the next one.

Lastly, I went completely off book and hand drew my shark taking the Jaws movie poster as my inspiration up to a point. I drew a rounded rectangle with no bottom and two hill shapes for the mouth. Back to triangles for the teeth, and circles for the eyes. He was colored gray and then inked over with mermaid lagoon distress ink. I added water droplets several times to the teeth and blotted it with a paper towel to get up some of the blue inking. I wanted the teeth to stand out a bit.

Isn't it amazing how turning the shape of the mouth upside down changes it from something cute to something much more sinister?

Thanks for stopping by.