Shell shaped card

Good Morning all

A while ago a friend sent me some large shell die cuts and a couple of shaped card bases which i knew would be ideal with the Pink Ink 'shell nymph' stamp

The base shape is die cut from a lovely cream pearl cardstock, onto that i matted the gold solid layer and then the fancy top layer which was also die cut from cream pearl card - sorry i don't know what brand the dies are my friend used.

I stamped the image, watercoloured with derwent inktense pencils and cut her out, i gave her body a bit of shape and attached her to the card front with pinflair glue gel.  I added a stamped seahorse, starfish & shell plus 3 real shells.  Clearly besotted stamped sentiment, Glitter glue & glossy accent hightlights to finish. 

Showing it stood up side on

Just a little close up, i picked 3 little shells from my collection.

Items Used

Pink Ink stamps 'shell nymph'

Clearly besotted sentiment stamp

Starfish & seahorse stamps (old craftstamper mag freebies)

Derwent Inktense pencils

Ranger glossy accents

Ranger stickles 'crystal & frosted lace'

Thank you all for stopping by.  Hugs Emmax

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Shell Nymph

Good Morning everyone

I was honoured to be invited to be a guest designer at creative mixed media challenge

........  I got this lovely pink ink 'shell nymph' stamp for Christmas and decided to make a little wall art with her.  The idea to do an alcohol ink background onto the glass of a picture frame came to me in the middle of the night - I love the effect so think i will be trying it out again. 

Frame approx 7x5"  I first stamped and watercoloured my image with inktense pencils and cut her out and sealed with glossy modge podge.   I then took the glass out of the frame and used alcohol inks on the back of it with colours to co-ordinate with my image, adding some blues and green that you find in the sea.  I stencilled some seaweed onto the front of the glass with 'diamond' cadence dora paint which has an amazing shimmer finish when it catches the light. 

I put the decorated glass back into the frame and started building up my scene, adding shape to the nymph and attaching onto the glass with glue gel.  I then dug through my collection of beached combed items to add some shells, sea glass and small piece of driftwood, i also added a couple of stamped shells from the stamp set.

Too finish i added touches of glitter glue to her wings and tail.  I now think this will make the perfect present for my eldest niece when her birthday comes around. 

I added white paper behind the glass in the frame to really help the alcohol ink colours pop

this is the glass once decorated with the alcohol inks on the back and stencilled seaweed on the front.  This dora paint is really sparkly but hard to capture in the photos

and just showing it in the frame before decorating.  The recess of the frame is nearly 2" deep so a good platform for my little scene.

Items Used:

Pink ink stamps 'shell nymph'

Foliage stencil

Ranger alcohol inks

Cadence Dora paint 'diamond'

Derwent inktense pencils

White posca pen 

Shells, driftwood, seaglass

Please do pop over to https://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.com/ to see the gorgeous design team creations and join in.

 Thank you all for stopping by.  I hope you all have a lovely Easter weekend whatever you get upto.  Hugs Emmaxxx