Magical Mermaids with Brutus Monroe

Hello everyone!  Hope everyone is doing well and summer is on its way for sure!

Today I'm sharing this fun new stamp set from

Brutus Monroe
Magical Mermaids

This stamp set is so adorable and I just had to make a slim line card using it!

There is so much room on a slim line card that I used quite a few elements from

this big stamp set!

I started by stamping out all of my elements with alcohol marker friendly ink.  Next 

I decided to make my background.  I did this cutting a piece of hot press watercolor paper

measuring 3 3/8" x 8 1/2" and taping it to my surface covering 1/8" all the way around 

my paper.  I used Periwinkle, Delphinium and Blueberry Metallic Aqua Pigments.

I used a 1" brush and went back and forth horizontally using Periwinkle at

the top, blending in Delphinium and blending that into Blueberry.  Once I felt

just a hint of resistence, I stopped and let it dry completely.  Then I did a

second coat over the first.  I set this aside to dry.

Next I colored all of my stamped images with Copic markers.

Copic colors used:

Sand Castle:  E51, E50, E31, E33

Puffer Fish:  Y02, Y15, Y35, Y38, E53

Mermaid Skin:  E21, E31, E33, R11

Pink Hair:  RV02, RV34, RV04, RV06, RV17

Purple Outfit:  V01, V04, V05, V09, V17

Blue Hair:  B60, B63, B66

Turquoise Outfit:  BG11, BG53, BG19

Stars:  Y15

Sentiment:  B21

I fussy cut all of my elements out leaving a narrow white border except for the 

sentiment which had no white boarder.  I trimmed mybackground piece that 

had dried very flat and adhered it onto a 3 1/2" x 8 1/2" side

folding slim line card.  I made some bubbles by taking a damp brush and making dots of various sizes on my background.  I foam taped all of my elements onto the card.  I applied

crystal glaze to the eyes of one mermaid and the puffer fish and let those dry.

Then I went in with a white gel pen and and added white dots to the mermaids' hair,

outfits, jewelry, the puffer fish, eyes on the mermaid, black fish and sea horse, and on the

sentiment.  Then I added sequins, pearls, dewdrops, and gems.

And that finished my project!

This was so much fun to create and color!  And there were more elements to the

stamp set that I didn't use.

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Betsy

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