Motherhood Mermaid

I have made a card for the Crafty Challenge #6 at Emma's Cards. The sponsor for this challenge is the fantastic  Kanban who are offering a £15 voucher to the winner. The theme this month is "The Sea", which seeing as it was my suggestion, I thought I'd better come up with a card.

I love mermaids and I love Selina Fenech so I knew I wanted to use one of her designs. I downloaded the decoupage sheet and writing paper from Selina's shop. The image is called "Motherhood". I wanted to stay with the shell-like colours in the image, so I started by colouring my 8"x8" card blank with Distress Inks: Antique Linen, Milled Lavender and Spun Sugar. I edged it with Dusty Concord.

I stamped the music sheet with a La Blanche stamp and Dusty Concord ink onto a piece of card I'd coloured with a mixture of Distress Inks. The mat behind the sentiment was given the same treatment before being die-cut with a Spellbinder and edged with Dusty Concord. The sentiment was created in MCS.

I flipped the stationery paper in MCS before printing it and inking the edges. I tied ribbon around it and attached a double bow. I tried not to cover the paper too much so as not to cover the ghosted image on it.

I made up the decoupage and matted it onto card edged with Dusty Concord. I do think this is one of the most beautiful mermaid images. I took a Cheery Lynn leaf die and cut off the leaves, then chopped it into sections. I finished off with some shell die-cuts from Marianne and used the Distress Inks to colour them.
The challenge doesn't finish until the end of the month, so you've still got time to join in.

Moon Mermaid

This is another image from Selina Fenech. It's available as a decoupage download from her shop.  I would like to enter this card in  Challenge # 2 at Emma's Hints, Tips and Crafty Inspiration   The theme is Ribbons and Bows.
I'd also like to enter this card in the Ribbons Galore Challenge at LEJ Designs.

I started with an 8"x8" blank and inked the edges by blending Tumbled Glass and Shaded Lilac Distress Inks. I then layered with silver mirri card. I made the backing paper by cropping a section of the image in MCS and enlarging it. I also created the sentiment in MCS. I coloured die cut branches from the MCS Quintessential Country Garden paper pack in dark green and arranged them to look like seaweed. The flowers are from the same pack. The decoupaged image of the beautiful mermaid has been matted onto silver mirri.

I hunted around in my extensive stash of ribbons for colours I thought would compliment the image. I twisted the thin ones whilst sticking them down. The intention was for them to also represent seaweed. Two bows hide the ends.

I also placed three strands of wired ribbon behind the sentiment. I finished with a few dots of Cosmic Shimmer in black and pearl on the flowers, in corners and in the mermaid's hair.