52 CCT August Theme Challenge

This was a fun challenge-Under the Sea!  

I knew right off what I wanted to do.

Now Santa goes everywhere delivering packages, but what about the Mermaids who live down below in the deep sea?  

So I imaged Santa diving down deep to deliver.

My card is about Santa swimming in the deep deep blue.

First I colored up the image from Kit and Clowder with Prismacolor Pencils.  I won't tell you how many hours it took me to color. 

 Let's just say, to do my next step was a heart stopper.  

You ever have these big plans towards the end of your creations and your plan could literally destroy everything you just did?

I had no idea if you could water color over pencils.  I had this fear something would smudge and of course I wanted until the last minute to get this card done.  Nothing to do now but to jump in with both feet.  I grabbed my Shimmery LuminArte pots and spritz them with water.  

My plan was to color side to side to give a sense of being underwater.  I used the colors Blue Ice along the bottom, Sea Breeze in the middle and blended in Sage to the top.  After swiping the color across, I dabbed with a paper towel.  After it dried, some of the prismacolor pencil coloring had dulled so I took a few of the Prismacolor Pencils and quickly went over the corals to bring the color out.   

The image of Santa was something I had in my computer so I printed him out and popped him up.

The card came out like I planned.

Perfect card for someone living in Florida.

Now come join us over at https://52cct.blogspot.com/ and hopefully you will get inspired to give this challenge a try.

Thank you

Netta