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Sunday 3 June 2012

Magical and Mystical



The topic of Magical or Mystical was chosen by me at Fashionable Stamping Challenges, it is for two weeks so plenty of time to find the right stamps, maybe in the back of the cupboard or drawer. It can be anything you wish as long as it can be considered to be Magical or Mystical. I have recently bought the Stampendous Mermaid stamp, so this was my immediate thought. I prepared my background with a sheet of copy paper covered with Starburst Stains, the blue and green ones from the Victorian Bouquet set, available from The Stampman. the sheet was scrunched up when wet into a tight ball, this helps the mica within the stains to hit the peaks and land in the troughs. Once the paper was dry, I then started to decorate, with stamped shells, real small shells form an old shell necklace, pieces of blue, green fibres, a stamped treasure chest from a pirate set from Tandastamps, the anchor from Creative Expressions Coast set and of course the mermaid, which I coloured with Promarkers apart from her lower body, which was coloured in the same way as the background paper. please do pop over to the main blog for the Design team have such a variation on the theme, which I am sure will help to inspire you. Thanks for visiting and for any comments, which I do appreciate. 
P.S. I forgot to say the gravel, pebbles etc are crunched egg shells, painted with mica powders.

10 comments:

  1. Hi Caz, This is gorgeous, love the image and the little scene you have created. Beautiful background.
    Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
    Avril xx

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  2. Beautiful card Caz, love the background and all the sea treasure you've added. Sue C x

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  3. Absolutely gorgeous Caz! Amazing background and I just love that beautiful mermaid! xx

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  4. Brilliant! I definitely recognise some of those techniques - it looks really good, so many elements of interest. Hugz, Jan xx

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  5. Caz, this is a stunning piece and what a great theme you did pick! Love every inch of this and the touch of seashells is fabulous! This brought out the kid in me! Have a great evening!

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  6. Hi Caz...wow, a really stunning piece! I LOVE the colours and all the texture layered on top. The pebbles look amazingly real, and frame the whole scene beautifully.
    A real treasure of a card Caz...
    Dot x

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  7. Fantastic card, great images and texture.

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  8. Caz, this is AMAZING!!!! LOVE all the fabulous embellishments--and the texture from the tissue paper! OH MY WORD. It's seriously gorgeous--gonna have to PIN it! :)

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  9. Blown away by this. Such a clever idea to use egg shells as they are light weight.
    Jocelyn x

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