Make it Mondays - BLUE

Here is my latest little backwards canvas as shadow box project - using last week's GoMakeSomething.com's Make-it-Monday's theme of BLUE. Check out the weekly challenge and links to other cool art here.

I used a beautiful beach babe with a blue towel from the collage sheet collection "By the Sea" at Ten Two Studios. Even the crab came from the sheet!

The canvas is 5" by 7". I covered the whole thing with a juicy teal dye ink pad. I now have juicy teal finger tips - it just won't wash off! The background is a printed piece of paper with the paint brushed on and wiped off so the pattern is very subtle. The whispy clouds are done in white felt pen. I used a blue felt pen to create the stripes around the edge of the canvas.

Another scrap of paper created the sand dune - sprinkled with gold micro beads, some texture paint and little shells. The beach babe was cut out of the collage sheet and attached with a cardboard tab to create the depth or "shadow". Both her and the crab are edged with dimensional glue to create some glossy texture. A few random stickers, shells and a bow finish it off.

Please check out my art and other challenge art at the flickr group.

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