Beneath the Dark Waters

This collage is my submission for Grungy Monday # 02  over at  Studio L3. These challenges celebrate the techniques and products of the fabulous Tim Holtz. This week's topic was using "Distress ink with Studio Multi Media" and  we watched the technique as a video. Its  so wonderful to hear Tim's voice telling you what to do!
This is a collage instead of a tag because I needed  a much bigger surface for all my ideas. LOL. We are to make it our own and I always do... making it my style of  "pretty grunge". So after making foam stamps from some underwater die cuts of shells and seahorses, I stamped them using Studio Multi Medium. On top of that I stamped a french script stamp and  shell stamps from Cavallini, dabbed on Distress inks  and the background was done. The central image of the piece is a vintage sea beauty from Artchix Studio.(see my side bar). The kelp was fun and was made using distress inks, markers and  Fiskar scissors. There are also layers of sea shell images, my swimsuit cutie, rhinestones and some transparent coral and shell images too. The sentiment says  "She saw the future that lays beneath the dark waters."  The finishing touch was a  tiny green "sea" tag  and a glittery glass star fish.
So what does your future hold beneath the waters?
Till next time, gerri

"She saw the future that lay beneath the dark waters."



"Dark Water Details"