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Hope you had a good week.

More newly released stencils from A Colorful Life Designs.  

The owner, Mary Kay, had been coming up with so many new and innovative designs.

The two stencils I used on this card are called Overall Shells and King Tidal Wave.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock and laid the King Tidal Wave stencil over it on my Make Art Station. 
• I inked it up with some of my favourite colours of Distress Oxide inks:  Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio, Salty Ocean and a hint of Blueprint Sketch.
• I removed the stencil and added a faint bit of inking into the white areas to make the fish more solid with some of the Peacock Feathers still left on my blending brush.
• I splattered it heavily with water to lift off some of the ink, then set is aside to dry.
• Next, I cut another piece of white cardstock and placed the Overall Shells stencil onto it.  
• I sprinkled some Brushos onto my non-stick craft mat, sprayed with some water to activate and then used a baby wipe to dab the colour over the stencil.  The Brushos are highly pigmented so you don't need much to get intense colour.
• While that dried, I stamped the sentiment onto the fish in my Misti.
• I glued the shells bkg onto a heavy white A2 card base, then pop dotted the fish over that.
• I pop dotted the strip sentiment under the sentiment.

Here are the stencils I used:

King Tidal Wave

Overall Shells

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

** I want to sincerely thank all of you that leave me such heartfelt comments.  I so appreciate them.  At the same time, I feel as though I owe so many of you an apology for not getting around to visit your blogs.  I want to do better with that.  My life of working 10 hrs with my 5 little ones is very time consuming but I want to try and better keep up with it all.

Cross your fingers for me!! lol**

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- SOMETHING FISHY GOING ON

Seize the Birthday- FAV TECHNIQUE (stenciling)

Simon Says Wed.- BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL

Supplies

Stamps- Mermaid for You (Lawn Fawn); Simple Strips (TE)

Inks- Distress Oxides, Versafine Clair, Brushos

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- stencils (ACLD); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

Make Art Station (Ranger)