Eleganza with Rick St Dennis

Good morning everyone.
I have the honour of being on the GDT team for Cute Card Thursday today via Rick St Dennis.
The theme for this week's challenge is dies and punches. Well, I have a few of them in my collection now, but which to choose? Also which image from the extensive collection of Rick's?
The Mermaid Eleganza caught my eye a while back and she was screaming for some colour......who am I to argue?
Soft teal tones - almost like those you find at sea - came to mind.

Now to get her onto a card

A few different makes of dies and punches here teamed with some DCWV DP that I airbrushed with stencils and the same promarkers that I'd used to colour our gal.

Some pearls and a little mother of pearl starfish I found in my stash,

Then a BIG OOOPSS 

I almost forgot - this is supposed to be a CUTE card. Well, those that know me will know I don't do cute really but, in deference to the hosts, I placed a couple of mother of pearl sequins on the image for the photo. I think I saved it.

Anyway - my fellow teamie Karen made a fabulously cute card to counteract my boob. You can see the two together on the Sparkle and Glitter blog and of course over at the hosts of the challenge - Cute Card Thursday.

The Duck challenge

.... yet another mermaid tilda!! Now you girls should know by now .... I don't do Tilda. BUT I was challenged by another dear friend to do a Tilda card AND blog it. Well I couldn't do an 'ordinary' one! Could I? She is coloured using water colours and sparkling H2O's, although the glimmer is hard to photograph. I just couldn't bring myself to colour her pink. Green she had to be! The weed is a die cut and the shells are decoupage. The "anchoring strip" is made by stamping bubble wrap onto paper. The backing papers are from the 'fragrant mint' selection over on Crafty Choas.
You ready for this **evil laugh**


What did you expect?
I am however going to enter this into the Tuesday Taggers watery challenge this week.