A little mermaid

For this weeks sketch challenge over at Karen's Doodles UK Challenge Blog.

The mermaid digistamp from Karens Doodles is painted with tinkabella inks and then glittered. The background is tapestry card which I coloured with inks and stamped around the edge with a HOTP swirl and eggplant versamagic. I made the 'sea' border using glossy card and my brayer (with Barbara Gray's fab scrunched paper water technique) and then tore a strip off to make a wave, added crushed glass glitter to highlight some waves. I used some paper flowers from my stash and added some tiny shells around the flowers and one in the mermaid's hand. I finished off by adding some bubbles made from clear microbeads (they are really twinkly but don't show up too well on the scan)

This card is also for the following challenges:

Craft calender: Flower power

Colour Create: Your choice of pastels

Thanks for looking

Claire xx