Splashes of Watercolor

Ocean's Beauty - a Beautiful Mermaid!

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Hey, y'all!

I've got a beautiful new little mermaid, Ocean's Beauty, to show you today from the March 2013 A Day For Daisies Club Kit.  I've created a journal page of her underwater world, and added some fabric to be able to play along in the eclectic Paperie Get Altered Challenge - Altered Fabric.

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I started with my blank journal page, covering it completely with Studio gesso.   I painted it yellow and the added strokes of green up from the bottom.  That's the seaweed!

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I added some mixed teal/blue/gesso for the water, by stroking down from the top using a wide flat brush.  I also brushed a little up from the bottom of the page.

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I used my Mini Chevron template and watered down gesso to paint on some "motion and reflections" and I used my Mini Peacock Feathers template to create more seaweed and some bubbles!  Then I used some Viva Paint Pens to add more bubbles and motion.

I printed my Thine Own Mermaid sentiment from A Day For Daisies onto some white cardstock, cut it out with a circle die, attached it with foam mounting tape and then painted it into the scene.

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For my little mermaid, I printed her onto white cardstock and colored her with my Copic markers.  I also printed her again onto a piece of copy paper, used paper tape to add a piece of fabric, then printed her again to get her "outfit".

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This is where the fabric came from - some faux silk curtain swatches:

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I added some sequins and popped little miss "beauty" up onto the page, and I was done.  What fun!

The Studio paints that I used are: Dab of Yellow, Landscape Green, Sky Blue, and Classic Teal.

Here's the full page again:

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And some closeups:

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You can click on any of the photos to see them at full size.

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That's it for my eP Get Altered Challenge - Altered Fabric.  Come and play along with us at the eP blog!

Also, please stop by to see all the gorgeous creations from the A Day For Daisies DT using all the gorgeous mer-people from the March 2013 Club Kit!!

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Arielle
Broni
Danielle
Kadie
Sherry

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Thanks so much for dropping in today!  What plans do you have for the weekend?  I have my 2 older grandsons and we're going to see Oz - the Great and Powerful (can't wait!) tomorrow.  Then on Sunday my youngest grandson is singing the national anthem (with his school class) at the Charlotte Checkers hockey game, so we're all going to see that.  It'll be a busy and fun-filled weekend!  I hope you all have a great one!

 

Words Can't Express - Color Throwdown #227

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Hi there, everyone!  Are you ready for the latest and greatest edition of the Color Throwdown?  Lynn is our hostess this week and she's chosen a very beautiful and very versatile combo for us.

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I decided to go a different route this week from the usual Valentine's Day cards to a Valentine/Love inspired altered journal page. 

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The sentiment is stamped in Archival Coffee ink, and I also used Distress Crushed Olive, Frayed Burlap, Spun Sugar, and Worn Lipstick inks.  You can see a complete list of the products (most from eclectic Paperie) at the end of this post.

There are a lot of layers and techniques to this page.  I won't go into all the details today, but I'll be hosting the eclectic Paperie blog this Saturday, February 2nd, so stop by and I'll have some detail shots as well as some instructions at that time.

Be sure to check out all the gorgeousness the Color Throwdown girls have created for you here:

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And we certainly hope you'll be joining us in this fun color challenge!  Check out all the details and link up your creation at the Color Throwdown blog.

Until next time, thanks for dropping by!

 

Cotton Candy Happy!

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Hi everyone!

After being on vacation last week (it was wonderful and relaxing, by the way), I really missed coloring the A Day For Daisies images.  This week I'm really excited that I got to choose an adorable little girl holding a HUGE cotton candy!!

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I missed the first week of this month's challenge "Anything but a Card", so I decided to play along this week!

I've been wanting to do another page in my art journal so I pulled it out and started applying some of my paper tape (from the Target office supplies section) to a blank page.  When it was done, I decided that maybe the color of the tape was too bold for the sweet little image that I was using, so I painted over the entire page with a watered-down mixture of gesso, using a foam paint brush. 

While that was still wet, I stamped on the page with the larger chevron stamp from the Every Heartbeat stamp set from Our Craft Lounge.  I used it dry (no ink) and it took some of the gesso mixture off the page.  It's a very subtle effect.  Then I applied a strip of the teal colored tape in a ruffle across the page, and used the Wonderful Words die and stamp set for a caption.

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My little sweetie's cotton candy is partially coated with some Daiquiri Ice Sparkly Fluff and she has Twinery bows in her ponytails!

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There's still time to play along in the Anything but a Card challenge at the ADFD blog and Tammy Thompson has even generously provided an image for you to use!

Check out what all the other DT members have created with these "sweet" images:

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Alice Wertz
Arielle Gordon
Lori Boyd
Shelly Mercado
Tracy MacDonald

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Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you all have a great Summer weekend!

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Inspired by Disney... and it's so hard to say goodbye!

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It's with great sadness and a heavy heart that the entire E-Team begins this, our last, blog hop.  Alas, our fearless leader, Daisy, has embarked on an exciting new adventure in the realm of Disney.  Although we are all SO THRILLED for her to begin her new dream job, we're so sad that our journeys along this creative path will no longer be concurrent.   This is a fabulous team with SO MUCH talent and enthusiasm for their art.  I will miss working with them SO MUCH!!  Love you girls!

Here are the blog hop details:

• Visit each E-Team blog participant and leave a comment. Comments can be left from Wednesday, June 27 - Sunday, July 1.
• There will be a winner chosen from each blog, and Daisy will have an extra special prize at the eP blog.  Winners will be posted on the eP blog on Tuesday, July 3.
• Here's the blog prize I'll be giving away:

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To honor Daisy, our theme for this blog hop is "inspired by Disney".  We were to choose one quote from all of Walt's wonderful quotes throughout the years, and use it to inspire our journal page.

I chose a quote that is probably Walt Disney's most famous….

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***If you can dream it, you can do it.***

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I think the sadness of this finality had an effect on my creativity.  Although I had a great time creating this page, I felt a little underwhelmed in my enthusiasm.

I started by using Claudine Hellmuth matte multi-medium to attach a book page to my journal page.  Next I stamped the beautiful image from Donna Downey's She Said stamp set.

**You can click on any image to see it full size.**

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Next I painted her skin with a mixture of Studio paints - traditional tan and modern red.  After that dried, I painted art masking fluid onto her entire image to protect it for the next step.  You can kind of see the yellowish film in the photo.

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I took several more Studio paints and randomly painted the entire page.  I did create some circles by holding my brush in one place and simply twisting around in a circle.  I knew I wanted to do some doodling!

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When the paint was thoroughly dried, I took an eraser and starting rubbing the edge of the dried masking fluid.  It peels off for the most part, but I did use the eraser to be sure I'd removed it all.

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I know it looks like a mess in this photo, but after all my doodling and more painting, it turned out just fine.

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So here's my final page showing a girl with all of her colorful bubble dreams.

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Can you find the Mickey Mouse silhouette?

Now I'd love for you to check out what my creative and wonderfully talented E-Team sisters have created today:

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Don't forget to leave a comment as you visit each blog for a better chance at winning some of the blog candy!  And please let Daisy know how much you've enjoyed these fun blog hops when you get to the eP blog!

I hope you'll come back to visit soon!