Connie-"The Shore"

Winter has hung on too long here so today I am showing you

how I deal with the cold and snow.

I played with an image from Sweet Pea's Plate #103 by Terra Bidlespacher

titled "The Shore."

You can find this image (as well as others just as 

delightful and fun) by going to

Sweet Pea Stamps

I stamped her with Memento black dye ink onto white glossy.

Then I ran a pc. of wax paper through my 

Cuttlebug to emboss.  I sandwiched the wax paper between

2 pcs. of white glossy (one being this stamped one and other

being blank).  

TIP:  Using 2 glossies with gloss facing each other and wax paper between

will yield 2 background pieces!

I added some text paper above and below and ran a hot iron

over it all until wax had melted and transferred to my glossy pcs.

I then inked a brayer with variegated dye ink pad and

rolled across until I was satisfied with the blending of colors.

The ink will resist where the embossed design melted

onto the glossy....perhaps giving my pretty mermaid a case of measles??

I colored it with Copics, added some netting to represent a fishing net,

some small brass charms and some acrylic alphabet

squares by Scrap Essentials.

Papers are by Anchor Paper.

The netting and charms are from my stash.

Thanks for stopping by!

Connie