Carnation in May

I've used Ching chou Kuik's 'Carnation of May' for this card, not your traditional carnation colours though lol. I though these mermaids would look good in green and turquoise

The main image is coloured with promarkers with some stickles for highlights, dusted with green ink around the edges, stamped with a HOTP swirl and matted on some black card. I've used a piece of coredinations whitewash card which is cuttlebugged with the swirls folder and sanded to show the green a little, this layer has some black lace and green velvet ribbon around it. The bps are from Crafty Ann and K&Co. The sentiment is from Elusive images and I added  a couple more grungepaper roses (fabby tutorial here on Lynne's blog), glimmer misted with various shades of green and added some lime stickles to bling them up.

I started making this one for this weeks challenge from Sweet pea stampers but was too late (I always do that lol) but I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Paper Jewels: Monochromatic

Donna's Den: Green

Passion 4 Promarkers: Green

Papertake weekly challenge: Sketch

Craftalicious : Make your own flowers

Thanks for looking, I hope you've had a good weekend.

Claire xx