One thing leads to another

Happy Friday!! I hope you all have a fabulous weekend...they are calling for a scorching week here :( not too happy about that...warm is good but NOT this HOT LOL

So I wanted to share a project I did late last night into this morning...it all started with wanting to color a seahorse for the daily marker 30-day coloring challenge...and one who doesn't know about that can find it here...

 so this little guy started it... I think the reason I love cardmaking/crafting is you get to use your imagination... I have stamps of sea creatures (sets I used  Hero arts-color layering waves and Photoplay-fish tales) but no plants or anything else to make a scene. so I had to think a little outside the box LOL I have a ton of cheapo stamps from Joanns so I pulled out a couple leaf ones and used them as seaweed and such...haha one thing leads to another and all of a sudden I was making another circle with another seahorse with lots of ink blending I mixed between distress oxides and plain distress inks...and a huge mess LOL Most of the supplies used came from my favorite crafty supply shop Scrapsalotllc.com

 Here is my first card...

 It's funny you start off with one idea and then you have thousands running through you head LOL...and here is my second card.... by the time I was done I had blue ink on everything!

So what do you think....was it worth the mess? I think so! I really love how both turned out! Thank you for coming by and if you read any of this post thanks for reading my rambling LOL 





Things I used from Scrapsalot shop
 ~Catherine pool~ Midnight ink
~Hero arts-color layering waves
 ~Photoplay-fish tales
 ~Hero arts stencil- mermaid seawaves
  ~Nuvo drops-crystal clear
~Distress Oxide-Faded jeans
~Distress inks-peacock feathers and salty ocean
 ~Craft Medley sequins

Day 6 #thedailymarker30day

Here is what I was playing with this morning...its a digital image from a funky blog called wonder strange arts (just in case you were curious)you can find some really cool freebies there...I think they work great in my art journal!

I'm really thrilled with how this one came out...I used alcohol markers and colored pencils to try and get the right highlights LOL as I said try...I'm pretty easy to please it doesn't look so much like a flat image it had a bit of depth to it so all and all I'm happy!
I did use some Nuvo drops seashell on her jewelry and clear her eyeglass lenses so they are shiny!

thank you for coming by!

Something magical

My first try at no line coloring using Ink on 3 Fadeout ink that I received in my design team package from Scrapsalotllc.com they always send the coolest stuff! ... I am also using a stamp set from ink on 3 called  Magical unicorn..such a beautiful stamp and I just love unicorns... so first impression was I couldn't see it LOL well duh but I have pretty bad eyesight so I really couldn't see it so I stamped it more than once to get a good clear image...

 So I did two different ones one in colored pencil and one in alcohol marker...I will admit it's going to take a whole lot of practice LOL heck I'm just getting used to coloring normal and now this LOL I will admit I like the colored pencils better at this point...I paired my Beautiful Unicorn with some pretty Rainbow papers from Honey bee stamps (also in the package)

 I used the colored pencil version in my art journal...LOve how that turned out!

Items used from Scrapsalot shop

Ink~Ink on 3Fadeout Ink
Catherine pooler Midnight ink
Stamp~Magical unicorn
Paper~Honey bee Over the rainbow
Embellishmenst~ Nuvo drops
Stencil~Honey Bee chevron arrows

Who's feeling Crabby?

I am so ready for the beach..well the lake will have to do LOL that's where the inspiration for my latest card for Scrapsalot came from...I decided to create a beach scene I wanted it to look like the little crab was walking down the beach...to be honest, it came out a lot better than I thought it was going to LOL I used a piece of computer paper as a mask...just cutting a squiggly line I made the sand darker towards the water and I tried to as some details with a white gel pen to the water. I colored the crab using colored pencils and some gamsol.

 you can find the stamps set and distress inks and Nuvo drops at Scrapsalot shop

List of items used from Scrapsalot
~Catherine pool~ Midnight
~Distress inks salty ocean and vintage photo
~Nuvo drops~ gloss ebony black
~Photoplay -fish tales