Nicecrane’s Little Mermaid

Hi everyone, and today I am using this beautiful image from Nicecrane Designs of the Little Mermaid. If you are a fan of giving & collecting ATCs, he has a choice of designs available from his on-line store, but he is expanding his range to include digital images, and this particular one is an example of his work.

I did not want to over complicate the layout and embellishments on this card, so that the total focus would be on this wonderful mermaid untangling her golden locks. I chose to use the sketch over at Sunday Sketch & Stamp, as it seemed to fit my criteria to a ‘T’.

I coloured the image with Promarkers, though I used chalks around the top edge of her oval mat. The background paper is a digi design on a CD from Create & Craft, which I chose as its design undulates like the sea and the scroll-work pattern reminded me of tossing seaweed. Onto this paper I dotted the tiniest gemstones I could find to represent the glistening sun on the waves. The border mat lying horizontally across the card has been sewn using the sewing machine, into stitched waves in the palest of blue - and then pearls dotted randomly either side of the image hopefully echo the sea theme.

I hope you all like my card for Ignacio over at Nicecrane Designs as I anticipate that I shall be creating more cards using his digis and ATCs in the weeks to come.

Challenges for this card:

Sunday Sketch & Stamp – design layout

Crafty Cardmakers – glitter and sparkle

Stamping Royalty – rhinestones and pearls

Cupcake - digis

Crafty Emma – anything goes

Daisy Doodle – anything goes

Bee Crafty – use a digi but anything goes

Stamping for the weekend – anything goes.

Tine :)