Cullercoats Charms and Curios

Stamperia Seaworld Mixed Media Canvas PIER 9 I used a canvas from an acrylic painting I did at an evening wine and paint group. Great fun to do with friends but not much learnt about actual painting!!.   I used acrylic paint to create a rust effect around the sides of the canvas.  I then covered the front of the canvas with scrapbook paper that had a rust effect. I distressed the edges and coloured with rusty hinge distress ink.  I then used stamperia  scrapbook paper. I punched out one of the portholes and layered it onto card to create a raised frame. I die cut cogs and painted them with rust paint.   I cut out three images of the diver from stamperia paper and decoupaged him to create depth.   I stencilled some rust paint through an industrial looking design onto the paper.  I then layered up the cogs, die cut plants and the diver. I used elements from the stamperia papers to create a frame around the picture.  These were layered...

 July 2024 ATC Challenge Theme: Marine    I had already made this mermaid card for another group challenge and there is a tutorial for it in an older blog.  I had stamped out extra mermaid images in momento ink but had not coloured them so thought I could use them for the marine theme for July's ATC Challenge as each mermaid fits nicely onto an ATC sized card. Coloured the mermaids using alcohol pens.  Then fussy cut them out. I used some sea patterned paper I had left over from another project to create the background. I had some die cut sea plants and some stamped shells.  These were arranged to create the seascape to place the mermaids on   I added some wording and a pearl to the shell one of the mermaids is holding. I also used some cheese cloth coloured with green distress ink in the background.  Unfortunately due to poor lighting the individual photos are a bit washed out.