happy fishy wishes {SFYTT}

This little mermaid just makes me smile every time I look at her, so I had to do something extra fun for this week's card to show her a little love. I picked the splashy cute set, Happy Days Mermaid , from Your Next Stamp for my card today.

As you can see, I took some liberties with the sketch, using buttons for the layer on the left. I knew I wanted to somehow incorporate something fiber-like and remembered a stash of good old SU! Magic Mesh that I've had collecting dust for years. Who knew?! It worked perfectly as an anchor for all those buttons. Speaking of those buttons, I was totally inspired by Leigh O'Brien's card last week that used lots of bubbly buttons--thanks, dearie! I think the rest is pretty straightforward: a cork beach with splashy reverse die cut scallop waves from which my cute Your Next Stamp mermaid is residing at the moment. To the right is another strip of fishy paper from Cosmo Cricket's Snorkel collection. Last but not least is the clear card base, something I haven't used for awhile and I think it goes perfectly with the beach and water scene.

Let's see what inspiration the rest of the crew has this week along with a new guest designer for July over at Jen's blog. Happy 4th of July, all!

Jen del Muro & Sandra MacLean
Amy Sheffer (on a break this week)
Amber Hight
Jenn Diercks (on a break this week)
Jodi Collins
Kelly Lunceford (on a break this week)
Leigh O'Brien (on a break this week)
Megan Lock
Sony Christoph
Susan Liles