View From Tintagel

Hi everyone! Melissa here with a 12 x 12 layout for Gina's Designs.  I remember when I took this photo I was thinking how beautiful the view was.  This is where,according to legend, King Arthur built his castle. 

There are a lot of stories about mermaids in the ocean around Cornwall,both here on the north shore, and on the southern coast.

Gina's Designs has a variety of pieces you can use in your beachy creations. I thought the shells and mermaid fit the theme of the page.

All the chipboard is coated with gesso. I put on a layer of modeling paste on the mermaid with a palette knife. I smoothed it out with my finger until the paste looked streaky. I wanted it to look as if streams of water were going by. I painted her with a mix of Lindys Stamp Gang,Twinkling H20's, and regular watercolors. I dry brushed on layers of silver, gold, and blue Lumiere acrylic paint to pick up the texture. I patted on perfect pearls.  

The sand dollar on the upper right has on gold mica powder mixed with a drop of water.

The rest of the items have modeling paste on them.

The sand dollar to the left of the photo is painted the same way as the other one. 

The scallop has a mix of  a Lindy's pink and a little yellow color, some blue on top, silver mica powder, and gold embossing powder. The starfish is the same, but I didn't put the gold on.

The background is watercolor over gesso and modeling paste. I tried to show water moving with the curves of the stencils, and  the pearl flourishes. I put on crackle paint, micro beads, dry embossing powders, and distress glitter to add more texture.

Thanks for looking, and have a great day!

Gina's Products Used:

Mermaids Shape Set

Beach Shape Set

Other:

Papers by My Mind's Eye, Prima,and Graphic 45

Luminarte Twinkling H20s

Perfect Pearls

Lindy's Stamp Gang

Winsor and Newton Watercolors

Prima Pearl Flourishes

Distress Crackle Paint

Swarovski crystals

Stampendous Embossing Powder in Jeweled Gold

Distress Glitter

Ranger Distress Embossing Powder in Linen