"Under the Sea" Twinchie

This is my first ever Twinchie for a grungepaper swap for the All Things T!M group. Cutting the grungepaper on my little tonic guillotine cutter was a little tough, but worked. I cut the squares then sprayed with purple and blue shimmer mists. Then I rubbed edges with my fav dewdrop Pearlescent Olive and blotted Platinum here and there and smudged these in with fingers [fingers were quite blue after this] and grungepaper held color mists well. Then I fed these through my cuttlebug with the Shell Collage embossing folder and the twinchies began to come to life. I rubbed raised parts again with the Pearlescent Olive and set them aside to dry while I embarked on die cutting...The sea horse and starfish are cuttlebug die cuts out of leftover scraps of gloss paper handpainted with alchohol inks. After adhering the seahorse, I smudged on versamark all over, then applied clear E.P. - then something unexpected HAPPENED! The embossing powder stuck to everything. The seemingly dry backgrounds - obviously not DRY. So I rubbed off some of the embossing powder to get a more bubbly look. I didn't want it everywhere. <> Then I heat set all of them and finished off with a fairy skirt of blue shimmery tool from the Dollar Tree [LOVE THAT PLACE] and a small shell and some plastic netting I've been hoarding for god knows how long. Voila! Sb