Pretty Little Mermaid

I love the combination of these stamps, the mermaid is from the now closed Sweet Pea stamps and was designed by Elaine Cox. The net behind the mermaid is a Kaisercrafts stamp and the mermaid tails in the background is a Stamp Press stamp.

The first thing I had to do was create the background for the net so it had time to dry off before I stamped onto it, I used the shaving foam and ink method, after a few minutes it was safe enough to stamp the net in a mid green ink.
Next I stamped the mermaid onto a piece of white A7 card and coloured the image using Promarkers in various colours, finally adding a touch of shimmer using a clear Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen.

Finally I stamped the mermaid tails onto a piece of 6x6 green card using versamark ink to give it the watermark finish.

Something to make you smile

This stamp set is the main reason I wanted to get the Visible Image range in at work.

This is Harley the Jester and he is totally cool. I needed to make something with this stamp set but I wasn't sure where it was going but I'm really pleased with the end result.

I stamped the background card using the four playing card suits, using red for the heart/diamond and black for the spade/club. I then added the wide red and narrow black ribbons around the background card.
I mounted this onto a piece of black card and then a piece of red card, then finally mounted the whole lot onto a white 6x6 card.

I stamped Harley onto a piece of white card using black memento ink and coloured the image in using the following Spectrum Noir pens:

DR1, DR2, DR3, DR6, FS1
IG5, IG8, IG9, IG10, CR2
CT4, EB3, Black

Next I stamped the greeting onto white card using a Kaisercraft clear stamp and black memento ink, because this stamp is new it didn't stamp out very well so I was going to throw it away, but I think it fits in with the distressed look of the background stamps.

I am entering this into this months Spectrum Noir Challenge

Thinking of you

I am such a fan of the Gorjuss Girls images from Scottish artist Suzanne Woolcott. I have a lot of these stamps but The Collector is a definite favourite because she is so simple and clean.

Firstly I stamped the image onto white card and coloured it in using the following Spectrum Noir colours:

IG1, IG6, IG7, IG8, IG9, IG10
BG1, BG5, BG6, BG7, BG8
FS1, FS2, FS3, FS4, TN1
GT1, GT2, GT3

I used the Die'sire Embossalicious Rococo Frame folder on a piece of 6x6 green card and added a copper finish with gilding wax.

I stamped the 'Thinking of You' using a Kaisercraft mini clear stamp onto white card and mounted a metal frame from the Madame Payraud range from DO Crafts.

I am entering this into this months Spectrum Noir Challenge