Under the Sea Dream Wedding

My Aunt and Uncle were married on the beach in Hawaii.

My Aunt had a hard bound book of their wedding photos created 

online from Walmart. While she was happily showing around her wedding book

it began to fall apart. She had only had it a few weeks. This made me sad.

So I immediately went on her face book page and started downloading

her wedding pictures. I ordered prints online from Costco, and am now

ready to begin creating their new wedding album. 

Now it just so happens to be the start of a new challenge at Aurora Wings,

and the theme is: Dream Wedding.

I'm pretty sure that a wedding on the beach in Hawaii is a dream wedding.

I'd like to have a vow renewal (next year is 20 years) on the beach somewhere.

Just me and my husband, and the officiant. No one else. No shoes either.

A girl can dream...   

I decided to use this adorable Aurora Wings image called,

"The Gift". Seems perfect for the very first page of the

wedding album. I colored the cute Mer-couple using Copics.

I went with vivid hues since I love using bright colors on

fantasy images. No rules. I love it. 

I've been collecting beach themed dies and embellishments for this project.

I used some TH distress inks and paint to color the TH sand dollar

and seahorse die cuts. I used Frantage on the "love" die cut to make 

it fancy, and stand out against the sand dollar. Added the starfish brad 

and the gold dew drops for more interest. And cheesecloth. Ya gotta have cheesecloth

for many uses, but especially for an ocean netting embellishment.    

I popped a teeny half pearl in the clam shell. It fit perfectly.

I also Stickled bubbles using crystal Stickles, along with punched circles of glittered

and pearlized papers to represent bubbles, too.

I think I got my point across. Gotta have lots of bubbles.

  

And here it is! I am liking where this is going. 

Mitzi has a bunch of other ocean/sea inspired images that will be just

perfect for the rest of this album. I'll be sure to share my progress.

I hope to have this done by their anniversary in September.

Thanks for dropping by. Be sure to check out all the other

wonderful inspiration samples on the Aurora Wings challenge blog.

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

    Going Grey with Scrap-Creations - Anything Goes

Inky Chicks - Pearls

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes 

All Crafts Challenge - Anything Goes

Not Just Cards - Anything Goes

They're no Fiji Mermaids, but....

... they're gorgeous and magical just the same.

I have recently become smitten with the technique of

"no-lines coloring". Contrary to it's name, there are lines,

but they are printed very lightly so when the image is colored they

show very little, or not at all.

I used #560 Kiki Mermaid from Dilly Beans for this journal page.

These images lend themselves quite well to the 'no-lines' technique.

I created the background using spray inks and some white acrylic paint.

I also managed to catch a rainbow in the upper left corner of this photo. 

Cool.

I also colored #559 Nina Mermaid for the second page.

Her hair was fun to create using a dot technique. Curly hair always

throws me for a loop as far as coloring. 

"The seaweed is always greener 

in someone else's lake."

                           -"Sebastian" from The Little Mermaid.

I have to work on my lettering. I completely ruined two pages by using 

a correction pen as a white pen for my sentiment. Way too runny,

and not much control. I'm open to suggestions...

I chopped up some green weave ribbon from May Arts

to look like seaweed. I like all the layers with the spray inks,

acrylic paint, Stickles, and seaweed.

The challenge at Dilly Beans this week is...

MERMAIDS!!!

Drop by and check out more underwater beauties, and

maybe even join in to win some free images from Dilly Beans. 

Hannah Lynn at Crafts and Me

A new favorite stamp/image company of mine is

Crafts and Me.

They have some awesome artists with incredible images.

This is my first Hannah Lynn image from C and M,

called, "Mystical Pond".

I am not going to say how long it took me to color

this gorgeousness, but it was one of my longer

coloring stints. Lots of details and I even referred back

to the original art on Hannah's website to make sure

I was coloring leaves and not flowers.

I have a few more of Hannah's images just

begging to be colored so keep an eye out for

more to come. I am a big fan now, and am

anxious to keep coloring while I have the mojo

flowing. 

I finally got to use one of those cool, sparkly, dangle, things from

Wild Orchid Flowers that I just had to have. I like it!

I am entering this card in the "Birthday" challenge at

the Crafts and Me challenge blog, and

for the "Anything Goes" challenge at Birthday Sundaes.

  

Mmmenacing Mmmermaids Mmmacabre Mmmonday

I'm a day late for my Wicked Wednesday

installment of this week's Macabre Monday challenge.

"I want to see Menacing Mermaids!", shrieked the

Masterful Mistress. And the Minions made it so.

I remember a few years back, I took my son to see 

a Peter Pan movie. They had Mermaids in that movie.

Some of the scariest freaking Mermaids ever! My son still

talks about those, "nasty fish chicks".  

I had the recent pleasure of doing business with

Teresa, from Crafts and Me.

She is an awesome lady, and a stellar business owner.

There was a hold up with her stamp manufacturer for the

new Jasmine Becket Griffith images, and as a thank you

for my patience, she gifted me some digital images from her shop.

I chose the "Columbine" image with this week's challenge in mind.

I think she's a bit on the menacing side. Did ya check out her ears?! 

This gorgeous image was a bit challenging to color, but I am happy

with how she turned out.

I used some Sweet Pea webbed ribbon I got on clearance at

Hambo Stamps. All of their May Arts ribbons are 50% off!!

I also used my new Spellbinders Fleur de Lis rectangles

and some crazy ass, Dee Gruenig paper I've had forever!

Please drop by Haunted Design House and see what the 

other Minions have created. Maybe even join in on 

the fun if you dare!