Heading to the Sea

Hi crafty people.  I’m not exactly headed toward the sea shore, but I am headed to the coast…the left coast…you know the coast where CHA will be happening this weekend.  Yep, I’m excited to see my girls and all the new crafty stuff that will be on display.

While I’m away, I’m not sure if I’ll be posting or not because for the first time, I’m leaving my laptop at home, and traveling light with my iPad. I haven’t tried posting to my blog from my iPad before so I’m not sure how well it will work.  But, I couldn’t leave without sharing a little sneak peek of another wonderful stamp that will be revealed at the Stampendous booth beginning Sunday.

I began with a green card base and layered white beneath a layer of Garden Café Patterned paper by American Crafts which was a light blue color with this great white embossed pattern.  I added Mustard Seed and Peeled Paint inks to the patterned paper and the white resisted, leaving me with a great background for this fanciful mermaid that more closely matched the colors I wanted to use.

I stamped the Stampendous Mermaid (CRP157) onto white cardstock and colored her with Copic Markers

I used a Copic Multiliner pen to draw a base for the mermaid and then proceeded to add glitter, gold glitter glass and some of the Sage Fragments to the base.  You are going to love the new colors of Fragments that Stampendous has for you.

Here you can see the varied colors I used to shade the Mermaid.  To give the Mermaid tail a bit of shimmery shine I added some pearl colored Smooch.

To the sea floor I added lots of texture by adding, Fine Crystal Snow (GX901F) and Gold Glitter Glass in addition to the Sage colored Fragments.

For more embellishments I added a few self-adhesive pearls, jute twine, jute netting and three pearl brads.

That’s it for today.  I hope you are looking forward to seeing even more wonderful surprises that will be coming your way from Stampendous and CHA.

Thanks for stopping by.  Until next time, stay crafty and I’ll see you in Anaheim.

Copic Blending Cardstock by X-Press (pack of 12)	Bazzill Basics-Kraft 12 X 12	Bazzill Rainforest Green Cardstock	Creative Impressions Jute Twine	Tuxedo Black Ink Pad (Memento)	Ranger Mustard Seed Distress Ink
Ranger Peeled Paint Distress Ink	Smooch - Pearlized Accent Ink - Moonlight	Copic Markers	Quickie Glue Pen	Fine Crystal Snow Glitter	Stampendous Champagne Crushed Glass Glitter
Creative Impressions Pearl Mini Rounds - PF

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