Swimming into September

So here we are three quarters of the way through 2019...how on earth did that happen? Although it is September we still have a few more weeks of summer left and the theme for this month over at Country View challenges is "Under the sea".
There is still time to enjoy photos like this...where I will be in a few weeks time.

I love the sea and as those of you who know me well I would love to be mermaid so I decided to make some mermaid themed  ATCs for this challenge.
My backgrounds were made with Brushos. I cut them to 3 1/2 by 2 1/2"

 and used my Tim Holtz splash stencil to add some depth using mermaid lagoon distress ink (of course!)

I stamped the mermaid from the Visible Image Mythical mermaid set and coloured her with watercolour pens. I cut off her trident (and eventually her arm as I put her at the edge of the card).

I die cut some under the sea images and also used the jelly fish and sentiment from the Visible Image Dare to swim set

I stamped and white embossed the jelly fish and added an acetate with alcohol inks "cap" for extra texture. I used the cut off mermaid tail at the top of this one.

These are the 3 ATCs.

Here they are in close up.

I glued the mermaids's tail I had cut off onto the top of the next ATC.

I would like to enter them into the following challenges;

Pixie's snippets playground #360
Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes
Cute card Thursday 1/3 anything but a card
The house that stamps built 1/3 anything goes
Dies R Us Nature I have used Cheery Lynn's seahorse die
A bit more time to craft 1/3 anything goes
We love 2 create 1/3 anything goes mixed media
Happy Little stampers watercolour anything goes

I hope I might have inspired you to take up our Under the sea challenge for September and join us.

You can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner to spend over on the Country View Crafts on line store. Remember that UK postage and packing is absolutely FREE! All the details for the September challenge can be found here.

I will be back with some more "under the sea" inspiration  for CVC on September 19th using the same gorgeous Mythical mermaid set.

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Bye for now,

Jane x