I'm an American girl through and through, so had a fun idea to take this darling mermaid from the new Fin-tastic Friends set on a red, white and blue adventure in honor of the approaching Independence Day holiday. Sometimes it's fun to think outside the box with stamps. The beautiful Fin-tastic Friends set has some fabulous sentiments, but it does NOT have a sea to shining sea sentiment. I saw all the pieces and parts I needed in the set.
I used a water based marker (don't try this with Copics 😄) to ink and stamp just the portions I wanted. First the sea from seas the day, and then the to from to say. Next I used the shin and then the ing from the fishing you well sentiment to make the word shining, and I finished with sea again. I often forget how easy it is to modify sentiments this way, but it's super fun and easy.
Next I stamped my little mermaid and colored her in with Copic markers, adding a little scale detailing on her tail portion. I wanted her to shine, so added some streaks in her hair with a crystal clear lacquer pen and then dusted it with glitter.
The papers are from last year's Land that I Love collection by Pebbles Inc. I cut a few coordinating panels and arranged them to highlight the red white blue and America portions on the background panel. A few die cut star accents with rhinestones and more lacquer and glitter add even more shine. I loved how it turned out so much, I decided to make it the Mojo Monday 519 Sketch Challenge.
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