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Sunday 8 March 2015

Kara's Mermaid ?

A very good afternoon to all my friends, followers and visitors today. I hope you are all having a lovely weekend and enjoying this fab spring weather.
I have had a lovely weekend, visited my Mum and Dad yesterday and got taken out for a lovely lunch at a beautiful gardens near to them and then today my daughter treated me to a gorgeous cream tea which was part birthday treat, part Mothers Day-just lovely and I am so full now I don't think I will eat for a week!!
I spent this morning finishing off this card which I made for my daughter Kara who just loves mermaids and is (much to my despair!!) planning on a tattoo of one. This is one of two cards I'll be making for her as I had two ideas and couldn't make up my mind which one to go for so thought I'd make the both and decide after!! The other one involves a photo of her new puppy Evie so if that turns out OK I'll share it later!
I used an image I won in the Art by MiRan birthday celebrations and just knew Kara would love it! She's coloured with my Promarkers and I layered her with papers from First Edition.  I decided to try distressing the paper which I'm not really used to and I must say I don't know what was more distressed, me or the paper-I just couldn't seem to get it to look like others I've seen on the blogs-maybe it just takes a bit of practice!!
I used a die cut swirl to match the bath pattern and I die cut a corner too. I added some card candi and also added glitter to her tail. I added glossy accents to the bubbles to make them shine. A large flower coloured to match finished it all off:





I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Patties Creations # 108 - green
Simply Create Too # 80- green
4 Crafty Chicks - green
Cute Card Thursday -dies/punches
Fitztown # 69- green
I love Promarkers # 259- distressing
Fresh Brewed -green, white +colour of choice
Creative Inspirations # 303-something old (die)
Crafty Gals -movie madness (little mermaid)

Well that's all from me for now, thank you so much for stopping by to visit me today and for any comments you may wish to leave.
Have a wonderful week, until next time.
Aloha
Andree x

18 comments:

  1. Great image, nice colours and a super design
    hugs Jacee
    Simply Paper Card Design

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  2. This is gorgeous Andree. I love the sweet image, fabulous colouring and beautiful papers too.
    It sounds like you have had the perfect weekend!
    Sue xx

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  3. What a lovely card - the backing papers are gorgeous and the image is beautifully coloured - Thanks for joining our challenge this month - Vic, DT for Patties creations xx

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  4. A gorgeous card Andrée, the blue and green suit the beautifully coloured image perfectly. Your distressing looks fabulous and I love all the swirls xx

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  5. A gorgeous card Andrée, the blue and green suit the beautifully coloured image perfectly. Your distressing looks fabulous and I love all the swirls xx

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  6. Beautiful Card. Your Daughter will love it if you decide to go with this one. Thank you for joining us at Fitztown for our Green Challenge and Good Luck. Lisa CT Fitztown

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  7. Evening Andree what a beautiful card i'm loving the image and the design is wonderful.
    Debs xx
    {Debs Cards– my personal blog}

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  8. Beautiful card, love the colours. Sue x

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  9. Beautiful card, Andree! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Simply Create Too!

    Hugs, Marja
    Simply Create Too DT

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  10. what a sweet card ,love your colour combo and cute image
    thanks for joining us at I love promarkers and good luck
    tracey x

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  11. Cute! I love the sketch you used for this!
    Thanks for playing along this week at Crafty Gals Corner!
    -Samantha
    Crafty Gals Corner - DT Coordinator
    Crafty Gals Corner

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  12. Love it - a really sweet digi and a beautiful card layout.

    Thanks for joining us at 4 Crafty Chicks.

    Helen
    GDT

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  13. Beautiful card...Just love the image and the colours....Joolsx

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  14. Beautiful card...Just love the image and the colours....Joolsx

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  15. Andree this is just so fun and pretty with the blue and green.
    Hugs
    Desíre
    {Doing Life – my personal blog}

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  16. Beautiful, thanks so much for joining us at Pattie's Creations

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  17. Beautiful! Thanks for joining us at Pattie's Creations :)

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Thank you so much for the lovely comments, it means such a lot and they are very much appreciated Andree x