mermaid – Stamped Smiles

Slimline Waving Hello🧜‍♀️

Hello there friends! Hope you’re having a wonderful week! Just wanted to stop in with a Slimline style card I had made with a fun underwater scene. (I’m thinking a magical place like this would be great to be in right now! How about you?)

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These slimline cards are really great for creating scenes like this on and I was also having fun being able to “experiment” with my different products too!

I’ve the stamp set called Sea You Soon along with the background paper (mermaid skin) and the Lilac Shimmering Sand Paste were all items from a past card kit.

I created my underwater scene basically using the mermaid skin paper as the background. Although it has a cool texture and smoothness to it, I was able to take the School of Fish stencil and add that Lilac sand paste over it. Love that extra texture and purple hue it gave! I also took the silhouette images from the stamp set and heat embossed them over this paper with black EP.

I stamped and colored the rest of the images from the stamp set with Copic markers and then fussy cut them out to arrange for my scene and popped some up with foam tape and then lastly added some clear acrylic bubbles over it.

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You can see now that it’s lying flat how the color shifts and changes on the paper!

I’ve used some stitched wave border dies to help create the scene using some Kraft cardstock where I’ve also fit in to arrange the sand castle image that I colored and cut out. I used Copic markers and gel pens to help fit the borders and image together.

I cut out the background paper with the Trinity Stamps Slimeline Stitched Card Panels and Windows die set. I layered it over a piece of blue paper that was included with the kit and then layered that over a Slimline style card base measuring 8.5″ x 7″ folded in half from a piece of Aubergine Cardstock. The sentiment was actually stamped from the Merfriends stamp set using black Ink.

You can see parts of the images with shimmer on them which have been colored with metallic gel pens. I’ve also covered the mermaid tail and jelly fish with a Spectrum Noir Glitter Brush Pen.

The bubbles are looking a bit white instead of clear because my glue wasn’t quite dry enough when taking my photos, so my apology on that, but it took a couple of days to completely dry up clear for some weird reason! Those babies aren’t going anywhere though!! LOL!

Hope you’ve enjoyed my magical underwater slimline card today! Thanks so much for joining with me today and I’ll SEA you again soon!😁

Challenges:

Just Us Girls – #544 Trend Week: Long & Skinny
Crafting Happiness– #57 Anything Goes
Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2028 Anything Goes
Mod Squad – Slim Line Scene
Little Red Wagon – #558 Fantasy
Papercraft – Fantasy
There’s a Stamp For That FB Challenge – #2 Summer and/or Slimline
Not Just Cards – July Anything Goes

July 16, 2020August 3, 2021

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Oceans of Love for Digi Doodle Studios

**(This is my second post for today. CLICK HERE to view other post or scroll down please.)

Hello again my friends! I’m back to share this card I made using this adorable image from Digi Doodle Studios:

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Isn’t she adorable with her little underwater crab friend?! This is the Nixie Mermaid digital stamp from the Digi Doodles Studios “Under the Sea” collection. There have recently been a couple more new ones added to this, so go check out the entire collection of these cuties! I thought she was so cute and I actually had her colored up before I ended up hurting myself and had to leave. I finished out the card when I got better.

I have also used some fun digital papers and a sentiment that work well with this particular image. The pretty pink patterned papers you see in the background come from the Digi Doodle Studios Summer Breeze Card Making Paper collection. The sentiment came from the Digi Doodle Studios Mermaid Sentiments set. I printed out the sentiment and cut it out with a ticket die, sponged around the edges with the turquoise ink color and layered it over the same turquoise colored cardstock I’ve used throughout my layout.

The layout idea came from a sketch challenge that I’m entering for below this post. I have several layer panels including the fun turquoise sparkly paper that I’ve used that was cut with a wave border die and then sponged with some white ink. I added some pearls to each corner of the image panel, wrapped some white organdy ribbon around the card front base, tied a bow and added a silver bow where I have attached some silver string and a starfish charm to it. The entire card measures 5.5″ square.

Here’s a closer view of the coloring that I’ve done on this mermaid image. Mainly colored with Copic markers, but I’ve used a gel pen to color the sprigs next to the flower in her hair and the braclets around her wrists. I took a glitter brush pen and covered her entire fish body and the bubbles in the water with. (Of course it looks so shimmery in person!) I then took some glossy accents and covered the little crabs eyeballs with and then some liquid pearls to dab a dot over the pearl inside the oyster. This mermaid image panel was popped up with foam tape over the card front.

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I hope you’ve enjoyed my underwater mermaid card today! Please be sure to join with us over at the Digi Doodle Studios Facebook Group as there is a couple of fun challenges going on right now with a chance to win something! There is also monthly blog challenge to join if you’d like another chance at winning a prize! We’d love to see what Digi Doodle Studio projects you’re working on! (CLICK HERE to see this page for all challenge options to join with!)

Thanks so much for stopping in today! I’ll be back tomorrow with something fun!

Challenges I’d like to enter this card for:

Cheerful Sketches – August Challenge
The House That Stamps Built – A1419 Tic-Tac-Toe (I used first row down)
Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP1933 Anything Goes

August 20, 2019August 19, 2019

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Sending Smiles Mermaid Style

Hello friends! Well it feels nice to get back into the swing of things here again! I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the awesome welcome back I recieved from you guys! Wish I could reach out through the screen and give you all a big hug! 🙂

Today is August 1st AND it’s on a Thursday too, so I wanted to share the card I made for the Whimsy Stamps August Digital new release as well as a brand new Cute Card Thursday Challenge too!! Whimsy Stamps is our sponsor this week and it’s an easy “Anything Goes“, so please be sure to stop by the blog to see the wonderful inspiration from the rest of the design team and play along with us!! We look forward to seeing what you’re working on!

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Oh aren’t these Sylvia Zet images just as cute as can be?! I so enjoyed coloring her up! (See the close up photo and details below.) This is the DIGITAL version of “Goldie” just released from Whimsy Stamps this month. You can still also purchase the rubber cling stamp HERE, but now it’s nice to be able to have the option to choose either one!

Since her name is “Goldie“, I had to use the orangish color palette for her! When looking at the image, I immediately saw “bubbles”, so I thought it would be fun to make a circle easel card design with her! This actually turned out to be a “non-traditional” circle easel card with the circled image going askew from the main area…which makes it seem more like several bubbles underwater!

I have cut several different sizes of circles, one for the main circle card base and several others with some old SU! bokeh looking papers from my stash. I used a stitched scallop circle die set to cut out the layers behind the circles. I sponged all circles with some blue ink for more depth. I’ve added a strip of blue glitter cardstock on the main card front layer as well as some ribbon to attach to the front. I arranged the circles where I wanted them and added some foam tape here and there to pop up the layers.

To hold up the card front, the inside of the easel card has another strip of that blue glitter cardstock and I stamped an anchor image over one of the circle panels using an older Whimsy Stamps clear set. I used some foam tape to pop that up so that the front card panel would prop up.

I’ve taken the Whimsy Stamps Everyday Mini Sentiments stamp set to stamp the sentiment under the image panel with black ink. For the accents on the card, I’ve used some clear acrylic bubbles randomly and glued them in places. For the fish, it was a wood veneer from my stash that I heat embossed with some cool orange metallic embossing powder.

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Here you can see the details from the side view of the easel design and how it’s propped up with that anchor circle holding the front card panel in place. to mail this card, you just unfold it and lay it flat as shown in the last photo below.

Here’s a closer look at this really sweet image. Below are the list of Copics I’ve used to color her in with:

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Fins, flowers, Bubbles – Y38, Y35, Y32, BG000
Hair – C8, C5, C3, C1
Skin – E21, E11, E02, E00, E000, R20
Snail – W5, W3, W1, E33, E31, R20

Wink of Stella used for mermaid body, clear glitter and 2-way glue pen used for the bubbles. I used a black gel pen to dot the center of flowers.

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Here’s what the folded and closed circle card looks like. She will not quie fit into a regular A2 sized envelope because I arranged the circles differently, but a nice 5×5 size would work great. I do have an envelope creator which is handy for those odd shaped designs that I can custom make.

Hope you’ve enjoyed my card today! Please be sure to check out the full August Digital Release over at Whimsy Stamps and don’t forget to play along with us this week over at Cute Card Thursday for your chance to win a nice prize from our sponsor, Whimsy Stamps too!!

Here are the products and affiliate links to the products I’ve used today:

Challenges I’d like to enter this card for:

Sweet Stampers – Summer (digi and stamp used)
QKR Stampede – #358 Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps & More – #352 Make Your Mark
Little Red Wagon – Digital Stamps
Crafty Gals Corner – 3+ layers

August 1, 2019August 1, 2019

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Paper Nest Dolls Guest Design Spot with Fishy Kisses!

Hello friends! Happy Memorial Day and I hope you’ve been having a great weekend! I would like to take a moment on this day to stop and give thank you and remembrance to all of the U.S. service men and women who’ve served our country. Your service will never be forgotten.

I am very excited to share a card I made with an image that Christine sent me to play with from the Paper Nest Dolls! (CLICK HERE for Digital.) I’m sharing my card as a Guest Designer for her and I’m thrilled to be apart of it with her adorable images! Be sure to follow along and check out their blog for lots of inspiration too!

I am using this CUTE image called Mermaid Ellie with Seahorse for my card. (CLICK HERE for digital format.) Isn’t that little seahorse she has her arm around adorable?! She was so much fun to color too!

There is just so much shimmer/shine and sparkle on this…so I hope I can capture it all for you! For the card, I’ve used the Tonic Basic Oval dies to cut her out with, but I’ve used the “Out of the Box” technique and cut out her tail before cutting the rest of the oval. You can see in the photo below how I’ve slightly curled her tail upwards.

The background of the card was done with a stencil and ink blending. I thought it was so fun as it reminded me of the scales! I cut this piece out with a square stitched rectangle die and then layered a piece of aqua colored mirrored cardstock that I’ve also used as an oval layer behind the mermaid image as well as a strip at the bottom.

For the strip at the bottom, I’ve wrapped around some linen thread and tied a bow with it. I’ve also wrapped around some ribbon to the layered stencil and mirror cardstock panels and then attached them to a 5″ square top folding card base.

I’ve taken a sentiment and heat embossed it with some “Mermaid Tail” EP and cut it out with a word banner die and sponged around the edges of it which I slipped under the first layer of the oval cut mermaid. I’ve added some burlap and a few of the sea shell sequins behind the oval image panel and popped her up along with the sentiment banner with some foam tape. Lastly, I added some half-back pearls randomly over the design.

Here’s a closer view of the image and all of the shimmer and sparkle details. I’ve colored her up in the following Copic markers:

hair – 100, W9, W7, W5, W3, W1
Mermaid shells – BG13, BG10 (covered with glitter brush pen)
Mermaid Tail – YG25, YG13, YG11, BG000 (pointillism with darkest and blender 0 and also green and white gel pens. The fin at the end was also covered with a glitter brush pen.)
Mermaid Skin – E21, E11, E02, E00, E000, R20
Seahorse – V17, V15, V12, R11, R00, R000 (pointillism with V colors and blender 0)
Shading – BG000

It’s hard to see it from the other angles of the card, but it looks like the sentiment heat embossed with “Mermaid Tail” shows more of the shimmer in it as well as the ribbon.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my card today and please be sure to stop by the Paper Nest Dolls website and check out these adorable images! Please let Christine know that I sent you over there!

Challenges:

Cheerful Sketches – using sketch
Tuesday Throwdown – Stenciling
CCEE Stampers – CCEE1921 – Use a die
QKR Stampede – #349 Anything Goes
Cupcake Inspirations – CIC471 – mermaids

May 27, 2019February 17, 2022

*Vicki* from Stamped Smiles15 Comments

Traditional Mermaid Christmas

Hello friends! Although it still feels a bit like Summer outside where I’m from with the temps in upper 80s and 90s all week long, I enjoy creating Christmas and snow-themed cards any time of the year! Besides, I know that once Fall hits, it will soon be time for Christmas to come along right behind it! I have used this adorable September release from Whimsy Stamps once again to inspire you with a more traditional Christmas themed colors and design this time:

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I have used this gorgeous Christmas Mermaid digital stamp by Crissy Armstrong for my card today. She is an amazing image for the coloring enthusists for sure!

My last card with this image showed her in more soft pastel tones. (You can see that post by CLICKING HERE if you don’t remember it.) This time I went for a more traditional Christmas color theme. I found some really cool green with white splatter pattern paper to use, so I worked around that by coloring the mermaid outfit in reds with gold trimmings. I took inspiration from the gold ribbon, bells and buckle and added in more elements with some gold on my card as well.

I was almost too scared to try this, but after coloring the image, I took some white Shimmerz paint and a paint brush to add some white splattering effect over top of her to give the appearance of snow and to also coordinate with the pattern paper in the background. I didn’t get too carried away, but just enough and then I cut her out with the Whimsy Stamps Hand Stitched Nested Rectangles die set and took my ink foam blending tool and went around the edges with some Pine Needles distress ink. I then took some gold cord and wrapped it around the two corners and then added a double bow with some red jingle bells on one end. I also glued some cheese cloth on each corner before I added some foam tape behind her to mount her on the card design.

For the card design, the base is a red top folding 5.5″ square design with the green splattered pattern paper over it. I took some chunky glitter and glued it around the edges and then prehaps you remember this “oldie but a goodie” border die from Whimsy Stamps along the edge of the image panel? I cut it out with mirror gold card stock and then wrapped some gold silk ribbon over it and attached to the card. I placed the foam taped image panel over top and then added the finishing touches over the image:

Here’s a closer look at the image where you can see all of the glitter and shimmer on her. Before I splattered it, I covered her outfit with a clear glitter brush pen and went over her gold buckle and the jingle bells with a gold metallic gel pen. I went over the tiny holly berries with a red metallic gel pen. I then took some liquid glue and added some clear glitter to her hat and outfit trimmings along with the tiny creatures hats.

After she was splattered, I added some gold sequins and then some gold Stickles in the centers of each one.

Those tiny creature faces just make me giggle every time! 🙂

I know she has tons of shimmer and sparkle, but she is a mermaid after all and I do love adding a little bit of this and that as much as I can! Do you like lots of bling?

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog, I truly appreciate your time! I’ll see you again very soon!

Challenges:

The Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge – Anything Goes + Christmas
Crafty Creations – Anything Goes
The Merry Christmas Challenge – Anything Goes + Christmas
Winter Wonderland – Use Ribbon and/or Twine
Little Red Wagon – Bling It On!
CRAFT – Christmas
Crafty Gals Corner – 3+ Layers

September 18, 2018September 17, 2018

*Vicki* from Stamped Smiles25 Comments

Whimsy Stamps September New Digital Release is Here

Hello friends! I’m excited to be sharing with you my creation for one of the newly released images for this month from Whimsy Stamps! Yay!

Every first of the month Whimsy Stamps will come out with a new release and the 1st day of the month begins with their digital release and the products become available for purchase as soon as they’re announced! You may have seen my creation on the Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Blog along with all of the newly released images and inspiration from the rest of the design team! So be sure to follow along over there so you don’t miss all of it! 🙂 – CLICK HERE to check out the entire September digital release in the store!!

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Now what a cute and clever idea from Crissy Armstrong to come up with a Christmas Mermaid image, don’t you think?! I love all the different possibilities with this one! I thought it was a good place to start with the amazing release this month!

I kept her very soft and femine with the pink and teal colors. Not sure if you can be underwater with snowflakes…but it seemed like the perfect accent to add and I’m pretty sure that’s why the little critters have a surprised face! LOL!

For the image, I have used an oval die and cut around the areas that didn’t fit inside the shape. I think it makes her look like she’s in a bubble of sorts! I also layered her onto another teal glitter oval shape and I have also die cut a sentiment that went perfectly with the image. I’ve paired her with the Whimsy Stamps Christmas So Soft digital papers and some mint colored cardstock. They seemed to go well with the coloring I did on the image. I popped the oval image panel up with some craft foam and added some fun tinsel ribbon in the strip behind her. Then attached some snowflake sequins.

Here’s a closer view of the coloring I did on the image. I kept the colors more soft with pink and mint/teal. I’ve used a gold gel pen to color in her gold bells and belt buckle. I’ve also added some Nuvo clear Crystal drops on the “holly berries” the critters are holding and then went over all of the fur trimmings with a shimmer brush pen.

To get the “texture” in the mermaid’s tail area, I just took my “0” Copic blender and dotted it which also helped to blend in the colors. Super cute and fun image to color!

Hope you’ve enjoyed my card today! Thanks so much for dropping in!

Here are the Whimsy Stamps photos/links I’ve used on my card today:

Challenges:

My Time to Craft – Christmas in August
The Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge – Anything Christmas Goes
QKR Stampede – Anything Goes (Challenge#311)

September 2, 2018September 1, 2018

*Vicki* from Stamped Smiles22 Comments

Crafting Retreat Hang-over Plus ICAD Week 7

Hello friends! Oh no…It’s been a week since my last posting! I have a “crafting hang-over” if there is such a thing! LOL! There were so many things to get done after my 3 day crafting stint and I just couldn’t get it all in! I ran out of steam!

For my 3 day crafting event, it was a local friend who puts together 3 days full of classes, prizes and food! They mostly get involved with painting because there are 3 of them there (including my mom) that are very talented advanced tole painters. This is something that I’m slowly learning how to do with the help of my mom. It’s fun to be able to spend time with her doing something she enjoys and I get to learn a new craft too! Don’t worry, I am still a true blue stamper to the end! 🙂 But since it was mostly painting, I brought my painting supplies with me and not my stamping supplies. I even taught a class with my mom and here’s my version of the mixed media sample we taught for class:

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There are several people that enjoy making Halloween projects there, so mom and I came up with this fun altered mixed media bottle with a glow-in-the-dark window and green ooze bubbling out the top with some flying bats coming out!

Mom had her idea all mapped out and sketched on a piece of paper and was having a hard time getting going with it. So I asked her if I could take her sketch of what she wanted and give it a try. At the time I started it, I had a Jack Daniels bottle to alter and went with that to follow her sketch. The advantage that I had compared to everyone else is that I had four flat sides which made it a tad bit easier to attached items to it. These girls were tough and creative and made it work and made it fun! The window that I put on even glows in the dark with some special glow-in-the-dark embossing powder! I then covered it with some glossy effects for a “window” look. Of course my mom had special glow-in-the-dark paint and that’s what everyone in class used for their windows. They are all so cool looking and I loved seeing all the different results!

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A closer look at the bottle and turned to the other side, you can see all of the texture that I attached to the bottle with the flowers, embossing paste, gears, bats, etc. I was going for a steam punk look for the bottle portion (which is why I went over the texture with just a gold metallic texture paste.) and I thought it would be cool to make the green goo coming out at the top, so that was fun to paint with a metallic green. There were lots of little tips and tricks everyone learned along the way. It was funny because everyone didn’t understand why they were painting over everything they worked so hard putting onto the bottle. LOL! After the texture paste, there was the excitement!

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This is just another side view of the bottle with the added texture I’ve put on it. I was able to collect some unique items for everyone’s bottle through my husband’s work in a manufacturing setting that had little metal pieces…no idea what they are, but it was something fun and unique to add texture to the bottle. And of course I had gears, buttons, stencils with embossing paste, flowers, etc. The windows and bats were all cut out with some dies that I had. That window die is actually from Lawn Fawn! The tiny bone sticking out on the window is of course Tim Holtz.

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Here are some of the girls having fun with their bottles in class. They are very intently working on getting their bottles just right! 🙂 Of course it’s hard to get everyone together at one time in a photo, but there were a couple more people there including myself not shown.

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Here’s a look at the bottles from class! I think everyone enjoyed this concept and I even had an additional bottle that I made they really enjoyed the other sample that I made too. So I made a different theme on this one:

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For those that are not Halloween fans, I showed them a completely different look with the bottle. This is my “Mermaid bottle” that I’ve made with Patina Effect Texture Pastes and copper metallic paints. I used some sea shells that I have along with some rope, beads, texture paste, cheese cloth and lots of other little tid bits I had on hand. I got a cork and used it for the top of the bottle and added a gem on top. I really like how texturized the paste made the bottle look.

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Turning the bottle around, you can see more detail on the bottle along with the charm and tiny jar I have hanging down around the cork at the top. I painted a silver mermaid charm with some Mermaid Sparkle metallic paint of course and then touched up the edges of it some copper texture paste. For the bottle, I had a package of tiny bottles and I filled one with some blue sequins and made this tiny tiny label over vellum and attached it to the bottle. It says “Mermaid Tears”.

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On the back side of the bottle, you can see that I’ve made a little “path” for the beads and sea shells to flow all the way around it. I have taken a mermaid die cut and cut it out several times to create a dimensional look by adding several layers of cardstock together. I had her sitting on top of one of the stone pieces I’ve attached to the bottle along with some gems above her for a “bubble” affect. This mermaid die along with some of the stones, gems, pebbles, mermaid charm and the gem on top of the cork all came from a past card kit.

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And here is just another angle of the bottle before we come back to the front of it. It just gives you a better idea of what all the dimension is on the bottle and how I’ve highlighted it with copper metallic paint. I even had a little toy compass to attach to the front. I had a piece of decorative paper from an older paper collection that I cut of piece of to attach to the front of the bottle and then wrapped the rope around it. I gave it a bit of a white wash over it with paint so it fit with the theme of the bottle….old looking.

I also shared another mixed media project with them that I had done, but they wanted me to do it for class next year…so I guess I will be sharing it with you all then whenever we get together for that class! LOL!! I’m sure I’ll be making another version of it in the meantime! 🙂

And finally, yes, when I got home I realized that I was behind on chores around the house as well as my ICAD challenge! So I sat down yesterday to try and catch up with those so that I don’t get too far behind! I’m happy to say that I’m all caught up and there is not many left to go either! Another 2 weeks and it will be complete!

So here are the results of Week 7 ICAD:

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With the theme and prompts given this last week, I didn’t expect mine to be as colorful as they are, but some of them turned out very colorful! I also enjoyed playing with some things I rarely get out to play with!

So now you know what I’ve been busy with this past week and maybe you’ll excuse me not being around so much! 🙂 Hope you’ve enjoyed my mixed media projects. I’d love to know what you think! Have you ever tried mixed media? Do you like the concept of it? Just curious how many of you out there enjoy it! Thanks for stopping in!

Challenges I’d like to enter my bottle(s) for:

A Inky Mess – Just For Fun (mixed media)
Creative Artiste – Anything Mixed Media Goes
Altered Eclectics – Anything Mixed Media Goes (no cards)

July 20, 2018August 3, 2021

*Vicki* from Stamped Smiles20 Comments

Shello

Hello friends! Hope you had a great weekend! I’m so tired! I forgot how much work it takes to put together a garage sale! We had a nice day for it and it was a great turn out! We are happy to have gotten rid of those big items in our way around the house. We ended up donating the rest that did not sell. Thinking of this, I probably need to go through my craft stash and do the same…but somehow, it’s just so much harder to decide what to keep and what not to…the pile ends up changing eventually! LOL!

If you remember, I have also been participating in the ICAD 2018 challenge which I have been going into my craft studio each day and creating at least once a day. I can share with you the results of that each week as go, so be looking for that soon!

Today I have some fun “underwater” items to share:

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Along with a fun painting retreat that I had went to in April this year…it was all the kick start I needed and then came the inspiration to blog again! I am happy that I did as I missed sharing my art and communicating with my fellow crafty friends here! 🙂

For the card above, I wanted most of the card to look underwater and that’s where I’ve used vellum and die cut out a wave at the top of it. I stamped the shoe image from above, the fish and underwater background stamp and colored with Copics. I added the sentiment banner and the awesome two toned pearls over the top. The edges of the vellum were sponged with blue ink and I added some blue sparkle on the waves.

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Next, I have this really cool Jumb Tag that I’ve decorated with contents from this same kit! I’ve used this cover die and instead of die cutting with it, I’ve used it for embossing. Before I used the die, I covered the background with some distress inks and splashed some water dropplets over it. I colored the images with my Copic markers, fussy cut them out and attached to the background.

Here’s closer view of the images colored up. Hard to see in the photos, but I have covered the mermaid’s eyes as well as the fish eyes with some glossy accents. You can also see how cool looking those fish scale flat backs are…love the different shimmery colors in it! And to give you an idea of the size of the tag, it’s 4″ x 8″!

Hope you’ve enjoyed my underwater creations today and I’ll see you again with more of what I’ve been crafting! Have a great day!

I would like to enter mermaid tag in following challenge(s):