Mermaid fun with Make it Crafty

It's a party weekend with Make it Crafty over at Passionate Paper Creations and along with a discount code this lovely mermaid is on offer for $1 this weekend only. Make sure you pop over quickly to pick her up at this bargain price.

Here's what I created with Siren of Pearls. I gave her a fishy friend.

Here's her close up. I had fun playing with this colour combo and using the blender pen to give her scales.

I coloured the sky using the techniques in Zoe's Fun Techniques for Colouring Skies Ebook. Who knew sky techniques could double as underwater techniques!

I used my Copics, but also used some Wink of Stella, Cosmic Shimmer Watercolours and Sakura Tiara pens to give it some shimmer. It is as always challenging to capture on camera.

The sentiment is one I typed myself using the font Bellwethers.

Copics used:

Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, with R20 Cheeks

Hiar - Y11, Y13, Y15, YR24

Tail - RV63, RV55, V17, BV08, Blender

Sea - B000, B00, B12, B14, B18, B21, B24, BG53, BG57

Cosmic Shimmer Watercolour Paints, Wink of Stella, Sakura Stardust

I hope you'll come across and join in the fun with Make it Crafty over at Passionate Paper Creations 

New Angels at KennyK Stamps

It's time for a new release at KennyK Stamps and wow I love these new Christmas Angels! They're called the Christmas Angels, but I can see myself using these at all times of years. They work in Christmas colours and other colours too I think. 

This lovely is Angel Seraphina. I've coloured her in Christmas colours to go with the Club KennyK Challenge of Christmas in July. I've added some beautiful Petal Lu flowers for the Petal Lu Challenge

She's a dream to colour. It's hard to capture but I added some Wink of Stella to her wings and dress to give her a subtle shimmer.

Here are the beautiful flowers from the Petal Lu Lucky Dip box. I added some Wink of Stella to them too to add some shimmer.

I hope you'll love the other two fairies Angel Aurora and Angel Regan

I hope you'll come over and join us at

Club KennyK Challenge for Christmas in July

Petal Lu Challenge - Anything Goes

Out of Focus Challenge with Make it Crafty

Well here's a post I really didn't want to write. The wonderful Make it Colourful Challenge is coming to an end and taking an extended break. This means it's the end of my time as a MIC Gal. 

Being part of the Make it Crafty DT has been like a dream come true. It's been an incredible challenge and has really really pushed my colouring & imagination skills. At times I've literally lost sleep wondering how I'll achieve the challenge brief, but each time I've gone for it and often been amazed by the results. I feel like my colouring has come on leaps and bounds through meeting the set challenges and I'm incredibly grateful for that.

One of the most amazing things has been the people. Zoe is an absolutely incredible person and my fellow MIC Gals are the nicest bunch of people ever. I truly feel honoured to have been part of the DT for the past 10 months. Thank you so much Zoe for having me.

So lets make the final challenge go out with a bang. It's a stonker of a theme it must be said - but doable. All you need to do is make part of your creation 'Out of Focus'.

I had great fun playing and getting messy making the backgrounds for these cards! I used a technique I've seen online dropping drops of Copic Refill Ink and Rubbing Alcohol onto pieces of card. It's very hit and miss. I had some that turned out nicely and some that weren't so successful but oh it was fun!

My first card features Cockatoo Digi stamp

I love how it turned out!

Here's a close up of Cockatoo. It's hard to see but I used W2 & W3 to add some shading to him. I kept it subtle as he's such a lovely bright white.

I used Dream from the Doodle Dream Word Chipboard Set and coloured it with green Copic and then added Glossy accents.

I mounted it so it's almost freestanding between the raised Cockatoo and the card base.

Copic Refills used for background 

YG11, YG21, YG07, YG25, G24, G82, Rubbing Alcohol

Copics for Cockatoo

W1, W2

Y11, Y15, Y17, YR24

N3, N5, N7, N9

C7, C9

My second card uses the same techniques with the Hibiscus Flower that comes with the Humming Bird Digi. I love the colour of the background of this one.

Here's a close up.

 I coloured the Congrats word from the Doodle Celebrate Word Set red with Copics and then added a layer of Glossy Accents to it. 

Copics Refills used for the background

B000. B00, B04, B2, B24, B26, BG05, BG45

Copics used for the Hibiscus

R20, R21, R22, R24, R27, R29, R59, W7

G14, G17, G29

E19, E18

I really hope you like my cards and I really hope you come over and join the Out of Focus Challenge at Make it Colourful to make the challenge go out on a high.

(Oooo Look my pic made the Challenge Header pic!)