A while ago I made a sea turtle puzzle that has been super popular, mostly because it has the cutest baby sea turtle pieces in it! Since then, I’ve been running the idea of making earrings out of them through my mind, but I wanted to add a bit more than just the shell pattern, and trying to add swirls like I did for my hummingbird earrings didn’t turn out very nice. Then I spotted some hibiscus flowers and realized they would make the cutest cutouts on the baby sea turtles!
I also used a silly hack I saw on TikTok for backgrounds, pulled up a photo of the beach on my tablet and took the photo of my cute turtle babies laying on the screen with my phone. Really surprised that worked so well, although I had to do some moire blurring.
And did you know sea turtles eat jellyfish? Plus they are just so cool, so I set about designing a predator/prey pair of sea critter earrings
But you shouldn’t have wooden jellies, that is far too boring. I need color! So I splattered a bit of alcohol ink on before cutting these out, including some awesome glitter alcohol inks for the tentacles.
@PrintToLaser I’ve worked for a couple of years with alcohol ink on mirror acrylic, so changing to white acrylic has a bit of learning curve! Mostly saturation, the more diluted for the white the better. I haven’t tried frosted acrylic, I’ll make a note of picking up some next time I buy acrylic!
I don’t, and the alcohol ink stays on as long as you don’t use rubbing alcohol to clean it, such as on the metal to sanitize. I made a pair for my sister, mailed them to her, and she promptly dropped them into rubbing alcohol to clean them before putting them on
They are now ghost jellies!
You can wash with soap and water, just blot to dry instead of rubbing.
