Happy Birthday Enabler! And a challenge

If you've been reading my blog for any length of time now you may have seen me make reference to the "enabler". This is a friend of mine who enables me to buy more stamps and products than I can ever use in a lifetime. As a matter of fact, just tonight she brought me some new paper to try out...three different kinds! What if I like them all and have to buy them? Oh, will she ever stop? I don't know what I'd do without her...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

One of these days she will be revealed...maybe I'll have guest spots on my blog! LOL! Anyway...

I made this card for High Hopes challenge #22 which is to make a card without any patterned paper. This also fit perfectly for Sharons No Time to Stamp challenge which it to use ribbon tabs. I have seen so many lovely cards recently with the white on white theme and decided to go for that, but it didn't really end up that way. I wasn't very creative, just a piece of embossed cs as my background panel. But I think the card would have been overwhelmed if I added any more layers or colors.

This adorable High Hopes mermaid is colored with Prisma's and oms and then I added a layer of h20's paint over that to give it shimmer. This is a coloring method used by Ila that is just fantastic. I am pleased with the coloring on this as it really has a nice deep shimmer irl. The clam, also from High Hopes, was an afterthought and after I colored that in I just grabbed Shimmerz and painted it. You can see in the close up that it is much more sparkly than the mermaid. I related all the colors in the image with the ribbon tabs that I added too.