Encaustic Art Mermaid Bookmark

Whilst attending a craft show at Alexandra Palace, I was really interested in the Encaustic Art stand.
By using special coloured wax blocks with an iron, the melted wax was spread onto a glossy card to make spirals of colour.  At first, you don't think it looks like anything special but when it dries you can really see a pretty cool background for your projects.

I watched them demonstrate some pretty cool pictures made purely out of this wax using an iron and would certainly look into going on one of their courses if you are looking for something different to inspire you.

https://encaustic.com/

On one of my make and takes that day,  I made this background which I decided was going to form my bookmark as it had a bit of an aurora borealis theme to it, perfect for my mermaid.

I stamped and coloured my mermaid on the rock using the Sheena Douglass By The Sea stamp set.
I stamped a little of the seaweed from the stamp set onto vellum and added some sea shell beads, pearls and sequins with some organza blue ribbon and orange netting to finish it off.

I thought it came out really well.

Happy Crafting

Stampendous - Mermaid Card

This card was made using a mermaid stamp by Stampendous and starfish stamp/ wording stamps from Sheena Douglass By the Sea collection.

Using Sheena Douglass watercolour card to stamp my image onto and a stazon ink pad.
Stazon is a permanent solvent ink formulated for use on semi-porous and non-porous surfaces. If  you are watercoloring with a watercolour brush or using a blender pen then this is the type of ink you will need to use. As it is alcohol based it wont smear or make your image bleed when you add colour to it.  Stazon does stain your stamps but this does not harm their performance in any way.

I used a mixture of Tim Holtz Distress Inks and Dreamees Dinky Inkies (water based). I masked the stamped mermaid so that I could ink the background. The mermaid tail has been shimmered with a Spectrum Noir sparkle clear overlay pen. The bubbles were made by hole punching different sized circles from remnants of the inked card that the mermaid has been stamped onto.

The sentiment and starfish are from Sheena Douglas By The Sea stamp collection. The starfish was stamped onto some ginger card (from my stash) and I inked the edges and moulded them to soften the shape a little. The sentiment was stamped onto acetate using stazon ink.

I sourced some coordinating backing papers, mermaid fin and grey shabby fence with these adorable seashell beads that I found at The Works. I knew they'd come in handy one day. Some small pearls finished the card of nicely.

Hope you like the card

Happy Crafting