Crafty Calendar Challenge - Love Is All Around

Good Morning

It's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar Challenge and this month our theme is Love Is All Around.  We're sponsored by the fabulous Hannah Lynn Art and my card uses the digi image Ladybug Love:

I coloured the image using Colour Soft pencils blended with baby oil.

Spellbinders Wonky Rectangles die.  Co'redinations Card.  The backing paper came free in a magazine. The ribbon was recycled from a Chocolate Reindeer!  The heart charm and buttons are from my stash.  The butterfly is made using paper clay which I bought from Create and Crafts months ago but have just put to good use.

Please do pop across to the challenge blog to see all the lovely creations from my fellow design team members.  I do hope you'll be able to join in our challenge this month.

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Tuesday Morning Sketches - Sketch

A Creative Romance  - Show Us Some Love

Crafty Hands Challenge - Shades of the Same Colour

Winter Wonderland - Use a Digi

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Love/Valentines

Today is my birthday.  To celebrate, I'll be putting some candy up on my blog in the next few days.

My Little Mermaid

I couldn't resist this gorgeous new stamp from Lili of the Valley.  I've always been fascinated by seahorses, such unusual creatures.  My card follows the sketch over at Tuesday Morning Sketches:

A5 card blank

Image stamped in versafine and colour with a mixture of Cosmic Shimmer drawing inks and coloursoft pencils, blended with baby oil.

To get the 'water effect' around the image I used Tumbled glass and Faded jeans distress inks, applied using bubble wrap.

Shell backing paper from stash and core'dinations card embossed with D'vine Swirls.  Ribbon from Joanna Sheen ruffled across the join in the backing papers.

Marianne die used to display the image (the edges looked a bit like scales!)

I die-cut some scalloped circles and attached them to a length of bakers twine.  I added a seahorse charm to the centre circle, and shells to the other 4.

I would also like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Little Miss Muffet Challenges - Texture

Hanna and Friends Challenge Blog - Pets/Animals

Cute Card Thursday - Girls Only

Lili of the Valley Thursday Challenge - Anything Goes

Stampin' For The Weekend - Texture

Thanks for visiting my blog today.