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

New stash

I was lucky enough to find a couple of core-dinations stacks going cheap the other day, as well as a couple of new stamps and bits. This is the first day I've had a chance to play.
While I was looking at the Sweet Pea stamps, I did a little detour into Ching-Chou Kuik's website.
There are a couple of freebie images that I downloaded. The angel policy states no selling on, but that's not the purpose I wanted them for. I wanted to try out a new way of colouring hair. This image seemed ideal for my purpose. Also I got to play with one of my new stamps :)

Next was to actually put these onto something. Following the sketch over at Diva Coffee Break Designs this little card was born. Another new thing for me - a DL sized card. Not sure if it entirely worked with the sizes here, oh well.

You can just see the sketchy in there
I'm entering this into that Diva Coffee Break challenge