Good morning and Happy Monday! I’m popping in to remind you that Free Shipping Days have begun over at Colorado Craft Company and that the giveaways are still available for a few more days! I’m also sharing two more cards I created using the newest Anita Jeram release ‘The Way of Water.‘
I love those adorable seagulls from Seas the Day and wanted to feature them in a card! I stamped them with copic friendly ink and colored them with copic markers. Then I die-cut them with the coordinating dies and colored around some of the edges to match my background!
For the background, I blended abandoned coral, dried marigold, and scattered straw distress oxide ink for my sky and chipped sapphire, salty ocean, and tumbled glass for the water. I left a little white in between the two for some contrast. I splattered the panel with shimmer spray and water and then stamped a sentiment on the top right corner. I adhered my seagulls with foam mounting tape and added a few accents with a white gel pen to help them blend into the background!
My second card was definitely a little more labor intensive but I think it was worth it! I started by stamping the Mermaid and Penguins image onto distress heavystock cardstock with versafine and heat-embossing it with clear embossing powder. I stamped it a second time onto masking paper. Then I fussy cut the masks and placed them over the mermaid, penguins, and sea grass. I blended chipped sapphire, prize ribbon, uncharted mariner, and peacock feathers distress oxide ink over the panel on a diagonal. I dried the panel with my heat gun and then splattered it with water, shimmer spray, and silver opaque ink. I let it dry completely and then carefully peeled up the masks.
I colored the images with copic markers and then started to add some fun sparkly details! I used a shimmer pen to color the bubbles which lightened the distress oxide ink (I didn’t mask those) and also added sparkle. Then I applied nuvo crystal glaze to the bubbles, and parts of the mermaid’s tail and sprinkled it lightly with chunky and prisma glitter. I didn’t apply it fully over the glaze so you can see parts of the glaze around the glitter! I also added some accents with a white gel pen and finished the card with a sentiment from Mini Walrus!
And that’s it! I hope this gives you some inspiration for the new ‘The Way of Water’ release and you can see my first card using this release HERE! Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful week!
Giveaway 1:
All designers will be giving away a stamp set from this release (your choice) to a lucky winner that we will draw from all the comments left on their social media hangouts. Leave a comment, follow or like and be sure to join their email lists too.
Giveaway 2:
We’ll be giving away a complete bundle of this release to one randomly chosen winner that has placed an order using your favorite designer’s affiliate link. So many chances to win! We will randomly draw a name on February 2nd. I’d greatly appreciate if you’d shop the release using my link HERE!
Giveaway 3:
We’ll be giving away 3 sets to 3 randomly chosen winners on Instagram. To enter visit us at: https://www.instagram.com/
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Dear Jessica – I love both of these. I am partial to aquatic scenes and you’ve knocked it out of the park, so to speak, in both of these cardfronts. Gorgeous! Love the background of the gull card as well as the gull images themselves. The mermaid card is dreamy and ethereal……
TFS –
Lori S in PA
I love the mermaid and your sunset background!
Such beautiful cards! Love the designs in this release!
Lovely cards! I love your mermaid with a little bling on the tail. Such a gorgeous stamp!
This is gorgeous, I love the sparkly details of the mermaid tail. Where exactly is the giveaway and until when? I cant seem to find that information and not sure if its just here I have to comment to participate or someplace else.