happy birthday and mermay 2025, stampingbella challenge

hi everyone

thought i would play along with the stampingbella challenge 

mermay 2025 in between my bella zodiac makes.

i've use Edna in a clam such a fun image to colour with my distress ink. 

Edna has been coloured, die cut and added to a new spellbinder frame that i picked up recently and used a few of my dohickey sea themed dies and a swirly die from my stash. i've used vintage summer basics and a little cream paper cut them in a few different sizes, scrapped all the edges and layered them all up. added mulberry roses, glued them all in place and used some texture paste & gesso to finish. the sentiments have been added using foam pads.

 here is what i've used

inks:

fade resistant dye ink: memento - expresso truffle

Tim Holtz:  distress ink

skin: 

vintage photo, tattered rose, worn lipstick

hair: 

mermaid lagoon

crown:

rusty hinge, fosilised amber

flowers:

victorian velvet, aged mahogany

tail: 

mermade lagoon, evergreen bough

shell:

spun sugar, aged mahogany, antique linen

papers:

fabriano 5 hot press water colour paper 140lb

Maja designs: 6"x6" vintage summer basics

cream card

7" x 7" base card

stamps:

stampingbella: Edna in a clam, retired 

dies:

spellbinder: frame, sentiments

dohickey: sea elements

flourish

miscellaneous:

mulberry roses

double sided tape

white gesso

white texture paste

suppliers i use:

stamps:

dies to die for

sevenhills craft

stampingbella

papers:

the mad scrapper

craftheaven-shop

ken bromley art supplies

mulberry flowers:

carroway cottage

also you can buy from:

other on line stores and craft fairs in your area

all it leaves me now to say is:

thanks for stopping by enjoy your day and

craft happy, Ann