Sea Life Display Dome - Simon Says Stamp Blog Hop

Hello! Welcome to my post for the Simon Says Stamp blog hop featuring six new coordinating dies to match six of our favorite Tim Holtz Stamps.

If you are hopping in order, you came from Mindy Eggen's blog and will be going to Barb Engler's blog after this. Thank you so much for taking a few minutes to check out my makes with the stamps for this release. I appreciate you!

 

HOP ORDER:

Simon Says Stamp Blog 

Nina-Marie Trapani

Cheiron Brandon

Heather Hoffman

Nichol Spohr

Emma Williams

Barbara Tarayao

Kath Stewart

Tina Smith

Mindy Eggen

Tami Bastiaans

Barb Engler

 

For today's hop I made these Idea-ology Display Domes featuring the Sealife stamps and dies as well as Moth Study. These little cuties were pretty easy to make. And if my explanations below aren't clear, I do have a video tutorial coming soon!

I used Sea Life and Moth Study for these domes.

I stamped the seahorse from Sea Life in Crackling Campfire and Ground Espresso onto Mixed Media Heavystock. You can see from right to left that I merely changed up the amount of each color I put on the stamp.

Color in any blank spaces with a waterbrush and a coordinating color of Distress Ink before die cutting.

One last touch was to add some darkspots with a dark brown marker, I also added some white stripes and white speckles here and there as well. The coloring was inspired from a picture I saw of some sea horses and I liked the Nemo feel to this one.

Once all of your images are stamped and colored, then find the coordinating die and cut them all out.

I used memo pins from Tim Holtz Idea-ology to attach to the back of each piece with Distress Collage Medium.

Here is the view from the back.

Put some Distress Grit Paste Crypt on the top of the cork base. Then gather the items to start assembling. I used some green moss from the floral department to fill in any little gaps and cover up problem areas.

Begin assembling the piece by pressing the focal stamp (in this case the seahorse) in the middle of the cork. Then build out from there, checking now and again to be sure it all fits under the dome.

I pressed the pieces with the memo pins into the cork. Then I cut the second piece of seaweeed in half so I could go in front of the seahorse without covering too much. Just enough to cover the part of the pin that was showing. I added a little collage medium to the base and stuck it in the Grit Paste, then used moss to help hold it up until it dried.

Add some moss around the rest of the pieces on the base and you are almost finished.

Here is a side view to see the space between pieces.

I cut a 1/2" strip of the water looking paper from Tim Holtz Palette Teal to go around the bottom lip of the glass dome. Then I added a sentiment die cut strip with Tiny Text stamped on it. The strip with postage stamps went around my second dome with the Moth Study elements.

Here is the finished seahorse die. 

Isn't it such a fun little vignette?

I love the colors and all the seaweed.

That is it for today's Sea Life Display Domes.

Thank you for visiting and enjoy the rest of the hop!

Tami

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