Friday 21 January 2011

Under the Sea


In A Sweet Pea Dream challenges set the challenge of "Under The Sea". I am trying to stock pile a few birthday cards for those "in a hurry" times. The stamp is the only mermaid one I have from SweetPea and although I used it a few weeks ago, I have changed both the colour scheme and layout.

To emphasise the "Under the Sea" of the challenge, I have used a recessed window in which to site the main image.
She is coloured primarily with promarkers with just a hint of pearlised paints to highlight.








The main BP is from the Mint Choc Chip Muddle set of Crafty Chaos' delicious papers. (Slightly digitally changed to get a colour I wanted better). The lines are so similar to the tail of our mermaid, it screamed "Use Me".
The two octogons were cut from half a sheet of a DP recieved in a RAK so do not know the origin - sorry. These were backed with some holographic miri as was the sentiment. That was stamped in green stazon on a scrap left over of the main BP.

The recipe I followed was that over on Sparkles Forum Challenges. 5 Gems, 4 Brads, 3 Flowers, 2 Buttons, 1 Ribbon/bow. The buttons are used in the middle of two of the flowers (all home made)

The whole thing was then finished off with some wavy line peeloffs.

The challenges I am entering this into are on
In A SweetPea Dream - the theme "Under Water"
Sparkles Forum - The recipe
The City Crafter are wanting to see our hand made flowers - well there's 2 different sorts on here so I' entering that challenge as well.
Pixie Dust Studio are also wanting a button or few for their challenge this week. My buttons are on my flowers.
2 Sisters Challenges are having a flower request so am entering this into that challenge

9 comments:

  1. Beautiful Card,

    Love the image, coloured beautifully, recipe is perfect.

    Thanks for joining us at SFC, good luck.
    Huggies Angel

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  2. This stamp is so pretty and the colours are gorgeous!

    Thanks for joining us at sparkles forum challenges!
    Dazie
    x

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  3. Lovely handmade flowers, thanks for playing along with us at CCCB!

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  4. This is so pretty and your sweet little flowers are lovely ... thank you for joining us this week at CCCB

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  5. What a beautiful card.. Your coloring is perfect.. Thanks so much for playing along with us at CCCB!

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  6. she is gorgeous and I adore the layout!!! Bravo!!
    Thanks for joining our challenge this week and hope to see more of your wonderful artwork in the future!!

    KymKreates
    DT Sweet Pea Stamps

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  7. So very lovely! Thanks so much for joining us at CCCB!

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  8. Lovely card thanks for joining us at SFC this week good luck.

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