Friends and Secrets

Hello crafty friends!  I'm here's today showing off Christopher Kerry's new mermaid package.  They are ALL beautiful images, but this one is just too cute.  It's called "The Secret".  Even mermaids have secrets that they need to tell their best fishy friends.  Christopher's images are just beautifully detailed and drawn.  This image is a free image: The Secret....so grab this cutie.

The image is colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  I had different color schemes in my head, but the hot pink really just needed to be done.  I saw a black cherry car and decided my tail needed something to that effect.  As you can see, the images are beautifully detailed.  I loved coloring this.

This smaller image was colored for a card.  I added a touch of pink with the ribbon, but kept it sea worthy in the colors.

Found the perfect sentiment from Unity for the inside of the card.

I colored the image a 2nd time, but bigger.  It's slightly different, because it's easier to add details and more color in bigger areas and sometimes you see things and want to make it different. (I did lighter details on the tail on this one, but the light pink didn't show up too well).

Check out Christopher's online coloring classes: Color Academy Ink.  He will release the mermaid images from class later on, if you just want the images and/or an image.  Christopher is an amazing teacher and has the background in teaching.  Even if you think you know how to color, you can still learn new techniques.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter this cute card in the following challenges:

• 613 Avenue Create - #181 Anything Goes
• Alphabet Challenge - H is for Hand Coloured Image
• Aud Sentiments - #157 Under the Sea with Sentiment
• Cardz 4 Galz - #24 Summer Fun
• City Crafter - week 316 Let's Go to the Beach
• Craft Your Passion - #316 Anything Goes
• Crafting with an Attitude - #16 Anything Goes
• Crafty Gals Corner - #76 Summer Fun
• Crafty Girls Creations - #21 Anything Goes
• Crafty Ribbons Challenge - #156 Anything Goes
• Dream Factory - Fairytale Special
• DRS Challenge - #231 Inspired by Color  
  
• Ellibelle's Color Linky Party - #10 Let's Color
• Glitter 'N' Sparkle - #193 Anything Goes
• Inspiration Destination - #90 Anything Goes
• Just Us Girls - #348 Colour Week 
  
• Left of Center - #135 Tic Tac Toe (LOC with mermaid)
• Lemon Shortbread - #17 Anything Goes
• Little Miss Muffet - #140 Anything Goes
• Ooh-La-La - #207 Sun, Sand & Sea
• One Stitch At A Time - #264 Layer It Up
• Really Reasonable Ribbons - #143 Sizzlin' Summer Colors
• Retarte: Stampart Papel - #79 Anything Goes
• Simon Says - Animal Magic
• Stamping Sensations - Feature a Creature
• That's Crafty Challenge Blog - In The Pink
• The Corrosive Challenge Blog - June: Lots of Layers
• The Crafty Addicts - #17 Anything Goes/Summertime
• The Cutie Pie Challenge - #100 Splish, Splash, Splosh
• The Pencil Case - V=Variety (Anything Goes)
• The Ribbon Girl - June: Anything Goes
• Through the Craft Room Door - June 14-20 Anything Goes
• Unicorn Challenge Blog - #10 Inspired by a Nursery Rhyme/Fairy Tale/Children's Story (Little Mermaid)

stamps: Christopher Kerry: The Secret, Unity: A friend loves you just the same
papers: Bazzill, Glitz It Now: rebel teal distressed
embellishments: gauze, 3 Girl Jam: cherry lipstick ribbon, bead gallery, traditions:seashells, ribbon from a friend