As promised, I’m getting back to my colouring and card-making now that all the new furniture has been delivered and organised. I’ll give you a little tour of my new office/craft space soon, just need a couple of little extras to get it fully organised *cough* Ikea trolley I’ve been admiring for months *cough*.
For now, here’s one I DIDN’T create earlier! The second card to be completed in the new house. Whoo! Several others were completed over the weekend, and I’ll be sharing them in due course.
I’ve been on a bit of a The Greeting Farm (TGF) stamping/colouring binge. They were one of my first character stamp loves, and I have been making some time to play with them because they just make me happy.
The Card:
I wanted to create a little scene with the adorable mermaid from the TGF Magical Beans kit. My first thought was to use some of the Make it Crafty scene stamps, but my lovely friend Delphine did that so beautifully that I wanted to go for a completely different look. I created a blue Distress Ink background over which I stamped the new SCACD Stamps Kelp Forest Background stamp in Archival Ink and painted with Lindy’s Stamp Gang Magicals in a few different colours.
I stamped one of the sentiments from the kit on the background in Archival Ink, and used a Wink of Stella clear glitter pen over the black banner area. I also used the Wink of Stella pen on my black mat layer for additional interest.
Look at how gorgeous and sparkly the seaweed background is! Love those LSG Magicals.
Marker Info:
In Other News:
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Oh Elaine. I love the vivd pops of colour from this lovely card too. Have a fab weekend x
Beautiful colouring as always Elaine. Enjoy the break from FB… It can get a bit much! Hugs Xx
Oh she is just fintastic hunny, awesome work! Hugs xx
Oh WOW WOW WOW!!! This is jaw dropping gorgeous E!!!!! I love it so much!!! It needs to be framed!!! You are amazing – just amazing!!! Thank you very much for your super kind words too ;)! MWAH!!! xxx
Omg I LOVE this soooo very much! !! What colors did u use on her hair?
Thank you Heidi! I will have a look through my notebook and see if I wrote them down. If so, I will actually add the info in to the blog post, so check back and see in a few days. 🙂 I will try to start adding some marker info into my posts again.