I made this card for this weeks Free For All challenge for Birthdays are the best. Then I realized this also works for the letter M alphabet challenge. I realized my friend's birthday is here and I need to send a card today. YIKES! She loves mermaids the way I love birds so I CASEd a mermaid card I had done earlier this year: https: Mermaid's Pearl of Wisdom by Art Deco Diva at Splitcoaststampers I made subtle changes to this card from the original card in that I used different cs for the layers and I added more sparkle and shine with a wink of stella pen. I stamped and die cut the mermaid, fish, and turtle and colored these images with copic markers and colored pencils. Then I stamped, colored and fussy cut the oyster shell. For the water I used the detailed layer of the lake stamp from the Kitchen Sink Stamps Cabin by the Lake stamp set. I inked the lake stamp up, spritzed it with water, then stamped it. I inked it up repeatedly, spritzed it with water and moved it around on the cs until I had the effect I wanted. I sponged the sea bottom with SU creamy caramel ink and a sponge dauber. Then I stamped over the sea bottom with the sand stamp in the mermaid set. I used clear wink of stella on the mermail's tail, the 2 pearls, the turtle and the fish. This was a really fun card to make again. Thanks for looking! ~Karen.
Date: Saturday, November 11, 2017 GMT Views: 798
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Stamps: Stampendous Mermaid Set, Oyster from The Sea View Collection by Sheena Douglas In Issue 43 of Creative Stamping, Kitchen Sink Stamps Cabin By The Lake (water stamp), Unknown Seaweed Stamp
Paper: Canson 140 lb Watercolor Paper, Coordinations 110 lb Heavyweight cs; StampinUp Island Indigo and Kraft CS
Paper Size: A2 Card Base
Ink: Marvy Matchables Black; SU Creamy Carmel & Wild Wasabi, Tim Holz Tumbled Glass
Accessories: Copic Markers, Prisma Watercolor Pencils, Large Flat Paint Brush; Stampendous Mermaid dies that match Mermaid Stamp set; Clear Wink of Stella; Sponges; Detail Cutting Scissors
Techniques: Stamping, Die Cutting, Water Coloring, Sponging, Coloring With Copic Markers and watercolor pencils; Fussy Cutting
Registered: June 4, 2009 Location: Deatsville, Alabama Posts: 82297
Sat, Nov 11, 2017 @ 1:32 PM
Love your images - so happy and fun and pretty!!! Such a lovely card.
------------------------------ Nancy Williams - Hope your day is Spirit-filled and ink-filled (in that order)!DRS Designs-DT, Punchkateerforever, Dirty Dozen Alumni
Registered: June 4, 2009 Location: Deatsville, Alabama Posts: 82297
Sat, Nov 11, 2017 @ 1:32 PM
Love your images - so happy and fun and pretty!!! Such a lovely card.
------------------------------ Nancy Williams - Hope your day is Spirit-filled and ink-filled (in that order)!DRS Designs-DT, Punchkateerforever, Dirty Dozen Alumni
Registered: November 7, 2009 Location: Sacramento Posts: 38941
Sat, Nov 11, 2017 @ 2:20 PM
Oh Karen, what a lovely and perfect card for your mermaid loving friend. Beautiful coloring and I love how you created the background. The water is wonderful as is the sand but the mermaid really steals the show. Beautifully done!
Registered: February 5, 2007 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 92405
Sat, Nov 11, 2017 @ 6:57 PM
The mermaid found a treasure and your card is a beauty, Karen. Lovely coloring and the feeling of an underwater scene. Your friend will enjoy and love this card made especially for her.
Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 28836
Sun, Nov 12, 2017 @ 5:48 AM
Very pretty! Love the way you colored this - and laid it all out.
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6