Connie-Distressed Sea Dragon

This adorable seahorse image is by

Jennifer Nilsson for  

Sweet Pea Stamps

and is titled "Sea Dragon"

I began with a distressed

water background on which I stamped the dragon.

Colored him in with Copic markers, added Stickles on his wings?

and put some small bubble gems for air bubbles.

"Macarena Corner" die by memory box and

layers cut with SB "Matting Basics" dies.

Customer Gallery Submission: Sarah-Louise Mitchell

Sarah-Louise shares her beautiful cards today.

Brigid Ashwood's Zam:

Jennifer Nilsson's Sea Dragon:

Meredith Dillman's Blue Fairy:

ching chou kuik's The Dragonfly:

Sea Dragon

Hi everyone and a Happy New Year! In last weeks post I had mentioned that I was totally out of sync coloring and I decided to really 'play' with the Copic colors. I had not had a chance to play with Jennifer Nilssons beautiful images from Plate #80, in particular this adorable little Sea Dragon:

I just let my fingers pick the colors and for once didn't worry about getting the shading right (because I never do, lo). For the background I also used Copic YR01 then went over it with the Blender pen pushing the colors towards the image.

Unfortunately I cut into the fish and the tail but salvaged the image by adding rhinestones.

I'm not particularly fond of these rhinestone 'strips' because of the glossy panel they come on but it sure is easier on the fingers. I used up some old adhesive backed ribbon and paired this image with one of the sentiments from Simply Vertical, cutting it apart in an attempt to achieve some balance.

Thanks for stopping by and check out the rest of the gorgeous images that come on Plate #80.

Gem of The Ocean.....

One of my favorite places on the earth is the OCEAN so when I got the chance to showcase this magnificent creature I was so very pleased!!!  You can get this fascinating stamp at non other than Sweet Pea Stamps. It is one of our new artists' Jennifer Nilsson's "Sea Dragon".  You can purchase her as a single stamp or with 3 others and a sentiment.

I colored the stamp with copics and added stickles to give it some sparkle.  I took some photo paper and brayer-ed it to give an ocean like feel. The sea weed was made with punchanella ( what is left over after punching out sequins).  I cut a few sea shells on my Cricut and added a crinkle seam binding bow and a computer generated tag.  Last but not least a few gem stones were added for additional sparkle.  Working on this wonder makes me miss my opulent ocean and has me counting the days till I visit it again!!!  I hope you enjoy!

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