Hi everyone! A little while ago I ordered some things from Heffy Doodle for the first time. They have beautiful stamps, stencils and dies so I wanted to give it a try. I ordered a stampset with funny aliens and a stencil with waves. And I received 2 little extra stamps as well! Such a fun suprise!

I already had an idea what to make with the alien stampset. My nephew turned 10 and I also wanted to participate with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. The theme of this week is, add a number.
This was the card that I made:

It was the first time that I made a galaxy background and I am happy with how it turned out 🙂

For the next card I used the stencil with the waves and a mermaid.

I’m very happy with this card! I love the sparkly waves!

The last card that I want to show you today is made with the horse stamp.

A simple card but I also love how it turned out! I hope you enjoyed taking a look at my creations and see you soon!

Hi everyone! Today I want to share 2 mermaid cards with you and the reason why cleaning your alcohol markers is a good thing to do!
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A while ago I learned to work with alcohol ink and gilding flakes. The gilding flakes are not really my thing but I wanted to try to work with foil instead. So I ordered a few colors of alchol ink and foil and got started.
This was the result:

The background on the right was my first attempt but didn’t work out. My ink was still to wet and the foil didn’t stick to it. But, I did love the look of the background! It was perfect for a seathemed card in my opinion!
The second background came out just like it should, isn’t it gorgious? Not sure for what type of card I will use the left background, time will tell 😉

So I started with the first mermaid card that I had in mind. I wanted to make a shakercard because I had a certain sequinsmix in my mind that I wanted to use. Wich I in the end didn’t use because the colors didn’t match like I had in mind. But the background was perfect for the card!

The little dots that you see, that’s chunky glitter. I though it would mingle with the sequins but most of it just stuck on the acetate. Not what I had in mind but I do love the effect of it. I really love how this card turned out. How about you?

Last week I was in a Belgian shop called Action. I found a nice paperpack with seathemed patterned paper and I could not resist to take one home.
I love patterned paper but find it quite hard to make cards with it. So I gave myself a little challenge to make a mermaid card with this patterned paper 🙂
This is the card that I made:

I think this card turned out nice as well but it sure didn’t go smoothly to make it! First I colored my images with my flex- and copicmarkers, both alcoholbased markers. A little while ago a friend of mine told me that she had cleaned her markers. I had no idea you could do that but I found it interesting because my flexmarkers were a bit dirty indeed.

But first I had an issue with my markers before I cleaned them. I colored the mermaid in and then the little seahorse. I use the pink marker on the pictures above and a little dot of dried up ink fell of the cap right in the middle of the mermaid her face!! I gently tried to remove it but it made a stain … I tried to save the image by using a sand eraser on the spot. It helped but there was still a dark pink dot in her face… so I colored a new one.

The day after I went to the store and bought rubbing alcohol and cleaned all my markers. It was really necessary for some of the markers and now they look like new 🙂

Can you see the difference? 😉

I hope you enjoyed seeing my 2 new cards and see you soon!