This is my take on Disney’s the Little Mermaid movie:

When I was craft shopping in Holland I found these fish brads, which I thought would be fun to use for water themed card for a child. As my godson’s fourth birthday is coming up soon, I made his birthday card this weekend. I bought the “Mermaid Emma” stamp by C.C. Designs a couple of months ago (have not gotten around using it yet), but as this card is for a little boy, I thought why not use a boy mermaid stamp?  So I headed straight over to The Greeting Farm Web Shop and ordered the digital stamp “Mer Ian”.

"Mer Ian", The Greeting Farm

This is the first time I’ve ever used a digital stamp as well as digital images (the other images are from the HelloKids website), so I was bit concerned that it would smear when using my Copics on the printed images.  However, it worked out surprisingly well; no issue at all with the darker colors, just needed to be a bit careful with the lighter colors.  For once I haven’t used any Design Paper, but just plain paper and cardstock. The sand I created by crumbling up some plain white paper, which I went over with distress ink (tea dye & vintage photo), then I sprayed it with Glimmer Mist (iridescent Gold), and finally I added some Stickles (Cinnamon). I haven’t done heat embossing in ages, but for this card, I stamped with a bubble stamp on some blue paper and then embossed it. It’s a bit hard to tell from the photo, but all images are placed on 3D cushions/foam.

Challenges
Sophisticat – #30 “A Card for a Child”
The Pink Elephant – #64 “Aqua”
A Spoon full of Sugar – #101 “3D”
Everybody Art – #88  Song Title: Under the Sea, the Little Mermaid
Papertake Weekly – “Do Something Different”
Crafty Creations – #65 “Make your own Paper”
Fab’ n’ Funky – #21 “No Design Paper”
Allsorts - #50 “Animals”

Card Recipe
Digital Stamp: “Mer Ian”, The Greeting Farm
Copics: Hair: R29, YR09, YR04, YR02, YR00
Mermaid: G29, G16, BG13, BG11
Crab: R46, R29, R17, R24, R22, R20
Corals: YG03, YG11, YG00

Here’s a little “Cheer Up” card I’ve made for a colleague.

I wanted to use vibrant “happy colors, so I cut into my new Imaginisce papers that I bought when we were in Holland about a month ago. Green is my absolute favorite color at the moment, I think it goes well with almost any other color! I decided to use my Flutter Anya stamp from the Greeting Farm, so that I could join in with The Roses on Paper Challenge, which this week is this sketch:

Roses On Paper #36

I also found a few more challenges I could enter this card into:
Simon Says – “Things with Wings”
Raise the Bar - #15 “Color me Happy”
Allsorts - #49  “Butterflies”
Anya Ink -#2 “Pink & Sparkly”
Our Creative Corner - “Blooming Blossoms”
Roses on Paper – #36 Sketh
Magical Crafts – #13 Something for the Girls

Card Recipe
Sentiment Stamp: Stampin’ Up!
Stamp: “Flutter Anya”, The Greeting Farm
Copics: Pink: R85, R83, R81 Green: G85, G82, G40
Hair: E59, E37, E35, E33, E15
Papers: Imaginisce & Anna Griffin, “Eva”, Basic Grey
Embellishments: Ribbon (Hobby Craft) Pearl Swirl (Zva Creative)
Pearls (the Hobby House) Mulberry Roses (Wild Orchid Crafts), Prima Flowers

Many Thanks for looking!

Here it; no 14 – this year’s last Easter card. Next year; remind me to get started with the Easter cards as soon as Christmas is over …and yes speaking of Christmas, I’ve now promised myself that before next week is over, I will have made my 1st Christmas card…

Back to this card; I used this week’s sketch from Sketch Saturday. It’s quite a simple sketch and I chose to use only one paper and ribbon & raffia instead of another layer of paper (s). Nonetheless, I spent a lot of time on adding details. Here are some close ups:

I think by now I must have entered every single Easter/Spring challenge there is out there in blogland , but I did manage to find at least one, except for the sketch challenge that I could enter this card into:

Your Next Stamp – Challenge #13 Purple
Sketch Saturday – Sketch Week #97

Card Recipe

Stamp: Easter Anya, The Greeting Farm
Sentiment: Computer generated. Font: Freebooter Script
Paper: “Sprout Collection”, Memory Box
Punch: “Frond Branch”, Martha Stewart
Embellishments:
Mulberry Flowers (Wild Orchid Crafts) Ribbon & Raffia (HobbyCraft)

Sketch Saturday Week #97

Once in a while when making my cards, I tend to flip out a bit and go for something unusual like very bold colors.  I love to make cards using subtle pastel colors and cute images, but sometimes it’s fun doing something on the wild side – it keeps your creativity alive!  “Nobody puts baby in a corner…” I think the Anya stamps are perfect for this purpose; not that they aren’t cute, they most definitely are, but they are somehow “tougher” in their appearance.

So, I finally got around to inking up my Easter Anya Stamp; when I bought it thought it’d be the stamp I’d use the most for this year’s Easter cards, but no my new Bunny stamps from Motivet and Wags’n Whiskers, as well as the Aurora stamps had the upper hand. For this card I followed the Sketch from Club Anya & Friends, and this’ll be the first time I’m entering into one of their challenges!

Stamp: “Easter Anya”, The Greeting Farm
Copics: Skin:  E00, E51, E000, R20 Hair: YR02, YR04, YR09
Dress: R85, R83, R81 / YG03, YG11, YG00
Ears: C3, C1 /RV34, RV21 Basket: E59, E57, E35, E33, E51
Paper: “Pink Egg Border” Crea Motion/ Beatrix Rose House of Art
Sentiment: Computer generated. Font: Freebooter Script
Embellishments: Ribbon (American Crafts)