Sunday 10 March 2013

Alpha/Dictionary Challenge - Ma-Me

So this fortnight over at The Craft Barn the chosen letter is M but there is a slight twist this time as we have to chose a word between Ma and Me.  To find out more about the challenge pop over to The Craft Barn blog HERE

 I did struggle a bit to find a word I liked but in the end I chose MERMAID:




So to start I masked the definition of mermaid then I used a mixture of white and tan acrylic paint mixed with water to lay down a base on the pages.  Once dry I dry brushed on two different shades of blue acrylic and once dry I dry brushed white over the top.  I then spritzed the pages with dylusions in purple, turquoise and yellow, I closed the dictionary and opened it and then blotted the pages with kitchen roll.  I then used some sequin waste to create a positive and negative stencil with a snowcap paint dabber.  I drew some rocks along the bottom of the pages with a black micron pen and stamped on some plants which are from a stamp set by Lindsay Mason.  I then stamped on the musical score which is a stamp by Papermania.  I uncovered the sentiment and added some dots around it to highlight it. The mermaid is a digital stamp from The Octopode Factory which I printed and then coloured using distress markers.  The colours I used on her were dusty concord, barn door, spiced marmalade, tattered rose, tumbled glass, broken china, faded jeans and spun sugar.  I then fussy cut her and stuck her onto my pages.

I hope you enjoyed my pages, thanks for stopping by and please feel free to leave me a comment - I love to read them!!

Claire x


12 comments:

  1. A gorgeous background, fabulous colours.

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  2. Terrific page and a great mermails image to chose

    Love Chrissie xx

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  3. Hi Claire, the mermaid image is gorgeous and I love how you created your fabulous layered background - love the colours you have used. Wonderful pages. Hugs, Anne x

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  4. Cool pages! I love the background!

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  5. Fab pages Claire, loving the mermaid stamp. Your background is superb too.
    Hugs x

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  6. Great pages - your mermaid definitely looks like she's in the depths of the sea!!

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  7. Gorgeous Mermaid page Claire

    MaggieH

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  8. Fabulous background, love the mermaid, great pages.

    Sylv xx

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  9. ooo I love the background you have made for your pretty mermaid! Thank you for joining in again over at The Craft Barn x

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  10. Beautiful mermaid - fab background!

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  11. Your background is fabulous..and so is that cute mermaid...wonderful M pages.

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  12. This is such a funny Mermaid :D
    Thanks for playing with us at the Craft Barn.
    Izzy

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