We Mermaid for each other

Guys! I have some great news! I am now a part of the Maymay Made It Instagram Design team (Yaieeeee😊) and I am so excited to be a part of this amazing team. This card is my first project as part of Maymay’s team. Maymay Made It has a lovely stamp collection and the Sea-Lestial stamp set, which I used for this card, is a part of her amazing collection. The products I used to make this card are available at Maymay’s store, which you can access by clicking here.

I have always wanted to work with Distress Watercolor cardstock and I decided to do so for this card. I cut a Distress Watercolor cardstock with Sizzix Heart Framelits die and used Barn Door, Candied Apple and Ripe Persimmon Distress inks to colour the background.

The photographer in me has always been fascinated by the Bokeh effect and I thought of trying this technique on my card. Don’t get intimidated by the name, it is quite easy to create this beautiful effect. All you need to do is create a stencil of the bokeh shape you want. For this, you need an acetate sheet and either dies or paper punches to cut the desired shape. I used both dies and paper punches as I wanted hearts of different sizes.

Quick Tip: Cut the shapes in such a way that when you are inking one, you don’t accidentally ink the other. 

Once you have the stencil ready, use pigment white ink and start with the biggest shape. I like to ink in odd numbers because I feel it looks better and so, I inked 3 of the big hearts, followed by 5 of the second largest heart. For the other sizes, I inked as per what I felt would look good. Once I was happy with the background, I moved on to making the focal image—the mermaid. 

This Mermaid is from the Sea-lestial Stamp set by Maymay Made It. I stamped the image using VersaFine Onyx Black ink and then fussy cut the image using Tim Holtz Mini Snips. After this, I used a Copic Black Brush Marker to cover up the white portion on the sides of the images. To see the difference before and after colouring the white portion, click here.

Once this was done, I coloured the mermaid using Zig Markers. I wanted the tail to be shiny blue, so I used a size zero brush and put some Perfect Pearl – Interference Blue on it, and then, I sprayed some water using a Mini Mister to set the powder.

I then started working on the sentiment. For this, I cut a piece of vellum, rubbed the Embossing Magic Pad on it to get rid of any fingerprints or static and stamped the sentiment using VersaMark Ink. Then, I sprinkled Nuvo Gold Embossing powder on it, dusted off the excess and used my preheated heat gun to emboss it.

Quick Tip: While embossing vellum, you need to be very careful as it heats up pretty quickly, so keep moving the heat gun constantly.

Now, we are almost done with the card. We just need to make the heart-shaped card base and then assemble the card. I used the same Sizzix heart die as I had used earlier to get a heart-shaped card base. Since I wanted the card to be heart-shaped, while cutting, I ensured that a little part of the heart die was on top of the folded cardstock.

All we are left with is the assembling of the card. I first stuck the vellum to the bokeh background, and then, stuck the mermaid on top of it. After this, I stuck the card stock on the card base and this pretty mermaid card was ready. 

I hope you find this card Mermaidizing! 😊

I have listed the products I used below. Thank you for visiting my blog.

Please click on the below titles if you wish to view the other cards I made using the same stamp set-

You are my True North – Masculine Card

Shaker card using Sea-Lestial Stamps

Starfish Sparkle in the Sea-Lestial Sky

Supplies used:

• Sea-Lestial stamp set by Maymay Made It
• Distress Watercolor card stock
• Distress inks – Barn Door, Candied Apple, Ripe Persimmon, Picket fence by Ranger
• Perfect Pearl – Interference Blue by Ranger 
• Heart Framelits by Sizzix
• Versafine Onyx Black ink
• Embossing Magic Pad by Inkadinkado
• VersaMark ink
• Gold Embossing powder by Nuvo
• Mini Mister by Ranger
• Vellum
• White card stock
• Embossing Magic Pad by Inkadinkado
• Blending Sponge by Nuvo
• Tim Holtz Mini Snips by Tonic Studios

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