Pretty Cute Stamps Challenge - Animal Kindgom

It's time again for the Pretty Cute Stamps Challenge and this month the theme is: Animal Kingdom.

You can make any project you want as long as it has a Pretty Cute Animal stamp on it. Pretty Cute Stamps has lots of animal stamps in store, not only clear but also digital and you may use either one on your project.

I've made a card using digital stamps from the Sea Ya Soon set, the cute turtle and the sentiment.

And also one of the wave border stamps.

My inspiration came from the movie Finding Nemo, being the part were Nemo and Dory are swimming with a group of turtles. The little turtles were so adorable.

I've made this card completely digital in Photoshop.

I hope you'll join us in this challenge and maybe you'll be the winner of a $15 Gift Certificate to the pretty cute stamps store.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs, Henriette

So Suzy Stamp of the Month September

After my previous under the sea card using this months stamp from SO SUZY , I acquire the taste and made a similar kind of card. Here are all the products I used.

The most time went into blending the background.

After making the background I stamped the corals and added a school of fish. I made this school of fish in photoshop, it's a free brush that I faded out and then printed directly on the paper.

Then I searched for a suitable sentiment and found "my love for you is deeper than the ocean". It was just perfect for my card. I made the sentiment also in photoshop using a brush font and printed it on the card.

Thanks for stopping by. I wish you a wonderful day.

Hugs, Henriette,

So Suzy Stamp of the Month

It's the 10th of the month which means the reveal of the So suzy stamp  of the month September!!

For the so suzy stamp of the month club you'll get a stamp in the mail that is "coastal themed" (beach, nautical). The program includes a great mixture of sentiments and images. You can sign up for three months to try it out or sign up for the whole year - regardless of where you are in the world! At the end of the year, you''ll have a great collection of coordinating stamps.

This month all the subscribers will receive this stamp.

At first I struggled a bit on how to use this coral/seaweed stamp but eventually it came to me.

First I've made a background using distress inks, watercolor paper and a mini mister for waterdrops.

Then I cut out a arched shape by using a die from MFT.

I inked up the stamp a few times with green and orange distress markers and gave it a spritz, 

then stamped it on the background. 

I wasn't really satisfied and wanted to added some fish in the background. I didn't have the right stamp for this but I found a digital photoshop brush of a school of fish and used that brush in photoshop. Then I printed it in the panel. (There is the chance that the piece of paper gets stuck in the printer, so I always keep my fingers crossed when doing this).

Then I made the cardbase by adding splatters and a printed sentiment.

and this is the finished card.

I hope I have given you an idea on how to use this stamp of the month.

You can find much more examples on the So Suzy Blog and on the two Facebook groups: So Suzy Stamps flaunt it FB group and So Suzy stamp of the month. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs, Henriette

Sublime

I have made a card to enter the CAS this sketch challenge this week.

For my card I used the cute submarine stamp from Pretty cute stamps.

As I was coloring this digital stamp in Photoshop of course the song yellow submarine popped in my head. 

So I colored the submarine yellow, why not? (It was that or pink, remember "operation petticoat")?

I also used the sentiment and bubbles from the set and a die-namic from my favorite stamps

to create waves behind the propellers.

That's it for today. Thanks for visiting.

Hugs, Henriette.

Jellyfish

I like jellyfish. Not getting stung by one while swimming in the sea but I like to watch them just floating around in a zoo aquarium. They have something serene, calming, ancient (do I make sense?) and they look so cute.

I've made a card with a lot of jellyfish on it. I used this colorscheme from MFT color challenge.

I've made the background in Photoshop using the colors from the challenge and added the jellyfish (Bugaboo stamp) in different sizes and angles. Then I added the sentiment on a strip of the same color paper.

I'm entering this card in these challenges:

mft color challenge

craft for the craic: january blues 

Case this sketch

Have a lovely weekend! Thanks for visiting my blog.

Hugs, Henriëtte.