A Wonderous Friendship

 Hello Crafty Peeps,

It may be Spooky Month but MerMay flew by quickly, and I didn't get anything done outside of my design team commitments. Maybe I will change it to MerTober for a while!

I have been slacking in using the newsletter freebies from Sweet November Stamps, but I had to do something with this super sweet duo "Dolphin Hugs".

I made the shaker part ready to go on a card but my daughter said I should put it on my gallery wall, so I grabbed a canvas and did a mixed media piece instead.

I used Graphic 45 Voyage Beneath The Sea papers and embellishments, so I kept all the other colours to that scheme..

I usually do greyish-blue dolphins and wanted to do something different this time, so I Googled and decided on a Common Dolphin. I love how it turned out.

For the shaker, I used a waves die-cut, which I wove a strip of patterned paper through then added the acetate on top. My shaker pieces are tiny beads and die-cut shells.

The base layer is Distress Inks & Oxides to give all over colour to the white canvas. 

On top of that I used Neon Lunar Paste through a mermaid scales stencil.

You just can't get the amazing shine from this front-on photo, so I've added more below to show you how it looks in the light.

 The final touches are 'water' droplets, pearls, cheesecloth and starfish.

Thank you for stopping by today. Your kind comments are always appreciated.

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{Crafty Hugs}

Products used:

• Michaels blank canvas
• Distress Inks - Dried Marigold, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade
• Distress Oxides - Lucky Clover, Cracked Pistachio, Broken China, Mermaid Lagoon
• Srizian Mermaid Scales stencil 
• Waves die-cut paper (Given to me already cut. I don't have the die)
• Graphic 45 "Voyage Beneath The Sea" papers, ephemera & chipboard embellishments
• Cheesecloth
• Recollections Micro Beads
• Assorted Shell die-cuts (Given to me already cut. I don't have the dies)
• Dress My Craft Water Droplets
• Papermania Pearls
• Dried Starfish
• Recollections Ribbon
• Eyelet Oulet Screw brads
• Cuttlebug Acetate
• ProMarkers - *
• Prismacolor Pencils - *

* Apparently I've taken so long to blog this that I may have accidentally binned my lists for these. 

I am entering my canvas into the following challenges:

1. Passion For Markers - WK762 Make It Cute
2. Crafty Calendar - October ATG
3. Crafty Catz - #680 ATG
4. Crafter's Cafe - #313 ATG/Fantasy
5. Pammie's Inky Pinkies - #2242 ATG
6. Allsorts Challenge - WK803 Patterned Papers
7. Anything Goes In A Card Free Zone - 5th Oct-1st Nov "Name Game" (last name Gold - I used Distress Inks/Oxides and image "Dolphin Hugs")
8. Monday Greetings - ATG
9. Tuesday Colors - 1st October to 4th November ⤵
10. Outlawz - October Linky