Teddy Bear Mermaid

There are times when you colour an image and are just not happy with it and this is one of them for me.  I think it is because with the way she has turned out she looks so scared.  However, I tend to go ahead an make a card or something with my poor colouring, maybe I should throw it away and redo it lol but I enjoy the challenge of trying to bring the disaster into something.  In this case I had the perfect sentiment and, for me fitted my coloured image perfectly.

So to make this card I coloured the image with Polychromos.  The background was coloured with Pan Pastels and then I used my embossing folder and hammer so I could emboss only the background and not the image.  For my base mat I embossed a piece of card with a Spelllbinders folder of shells and then used a few shades of Brusho and spay water to get lots of texture and movement.  Both the image and the base mat were mounted on orange card to tie in with the underwater plants.  Next I used a tree branch die from Memory Box for more seaweed and the Large Ringlet die also from Memory Box for bubbles.  To finish off I added a few pearl strands, some small bead shells around the sentiment and then some very precious shells collected by my daughter and grandson on a wee outing they had walking along the beach.

Ingredients:-

• Image - Concetta Kilmer's Teddy Bear Mermaid 
• Colouring Medium -  Faber Castell Polychromos, Pan Pastels and Brushos
• Dies - Memory Box Woodland Branch and Large Ringlets
• From my stash - shells, sentiment stamp, pearls, Frantage

Challenges entered:-

• Colouring in Scrapland - M, 1st Monday, E2, No digital colouring - (September) Under the
• SeaWhoopsi Daisy - M, SIO - (September) Add Embellishments
• Crafting with Dragonflies 2W,1E, Cards only (W2) under the sea
• Crafty Friends Challenge 2W,(W2) - use a sentiment 
• Creative Craft Cottage Digi Creations (2W, P1/15, E3) #32 Include a Sentiment
• Dream Factory (M,P15) #23 The Little Mermaid
• Lunagirl (M, P1, E3) Fairies and Mermaids 

Happy Himalayan

Happy Himalayan

Sweet Pea Stamps are sponsoring the As You Like It challenge and on behalf of the Sweet Pea DT I have created this candle :) :) using the fabulous image Happy Himalayan by Concetta Kilmer which is available as a digi.

The theme for the AS YOU LIKE IT CHALLENGE is 

'Use either alcohol markers or DI inks (either markers or painting with reinkers)'

I thought it would be such fun to do this wonderfully cool cat for my sister who is a real pussy cat lover.  I love cats too lol but alas at the moment don't have a furry friend in the house although that will change when hubby and I return to the UK from working overseas - something to look forward to.  Decorating candles is so much fun and I do get carried away with them as I find they make great gift and are a lovely change from making cards with the digis.  With fire safety being an issue I have spent a lot of time hunting out safe items to use to avoid any accidents, would so hate to be the cause of a fire in a house.  The only part of my candle that is unsafe is the bottom where I tend to use lace or ribbon but this is so far away from the naked flame that the candle would be throw out long before it became an issue. I tend to use large candles as I find them so dramatic when finished, this one is about 11 inches high.

 The image has been coloured with Promarkers.  I generally use coloured pencils to colour my candle wrappers as Promarkers are a bit difficult to work with on tissue paper but this challenge requires alcohol marker or DI inks so Promarkes it is, just as we all love a challenge don't we :) :) :)

And here we have the finished candle.  If you are interested in how I do my candles I have a wee video tutorial you can watch, it is easier than me explaining every step each time I publish a candle :) - Candle Wrapper Tutorial

Ingredients:-

• Image - Happy Himalayan by Concetta Kilmer
• Colouring Medium - Promarkers
• From my Stash - IKEA candle, candle varnish, gold wax trim, gold pen and ribbon.

I am entering into the following challenges:-

• Crafting for all Seasons - 2W, 3E - #99 Animal Magic (Week 2 of 2 )
• Crafty Creations - 2W - #286 Anything Goes No Foolin'  (Week 2 of 2)
• Crafty Creations - 2W - #286 Anything Goes No Foolin'  (Week 2 of 2)
• Creative Moments - 2W, 3E - #65 Anything Goes/Anything But A Card (Week 2 of 2)
• I love Promarkers - W - Must use Promarkers - #264 Ink It Up
• Wonderful Wednesdays -  W, SIO -  Always Anything Goes
• ColourQ - W - Colors* #286

• All Crafts Challenge - 2M, 1st Monday of the month every other month, NO CARDS - (Apr/May) Anything But a Card
• Crafting from the Heart - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes
• Craft Your Passion - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes
• Digi Sketch Challenge - 2W - (Week 2) Sketch* and/or Furry Friends (FURRY FRIENDS)
• AAA - W, 3E, CAS - Game 36 - Easter Colors
• Catch The Bug w,3E,SIO anything goes 

Thank you for stopping by today and hope you have a happy crafting time ahead of you :) xx