Hello crafting friends. It's Friday! Yayyy!
Well being Friday also means that I get to share a project for Fairy Stamper.
Meet Marina, the sweet mermaid. Isn't she lovely? She is part of the new May release of Fairy Hugs stamps. You can see all the new stamps at the Fairy Stamper store. Once you're on the home page, click on "New Arrivals" and you will see the entire collection.
I needed a bit of card space to build my scene, so I decided to turn it into a Z-fold card. It worked perfectly for the scene I wanted.
I began by printing the ocean background, using a pattern paper file from the Silhouette store. Next I planned where I wanted all my elements by using the acetate images, and then started building it just as I had envisioned it.
I used various stamps from the new release and a couple from older releases. I also used a variety of inks to stamp my images. I will add a list of all the crafting supplies I used, further down on this post.
For her tail, I wanted to try something different from glitter, so I used my Sakura Glaze pens. The effect is beautiful. From the above pic, you can see how beautifully shiny it is, but it also has dimension as can be seen on the pic below.
After stamping all the images, it was time to add a little pizazz. So I added a string of pearls to ... umm ... don't really know what to call it to be honest with you 😀, maybe her waist, midsection?
I also added a few highlights to the seahorse using an orange glaze pen.
Gems were then added to the treasure chest.
On the back, I made a mat so that I can write my message. I left it blank for now, but I think this will turn into a birthday card. And that was it, fun to make and not too difficult. Having a printed background helped save time. I'm always on the lookout for backgrounds that I can use on my cards. Right now, I have an old calendar from 2016 that is ocean themed, and has several pages with beautiful ocean bed scenes. I'm busy pulling it apart, chopping and cutting and will be using them in future cards. I think it's a great way to recycle old calendars and will save me some time on making cards. But if you don't have any old calendars, don't despair! There is a wonderful variety of Fairy Hugs scene papers, also available at the Fairy Stamper store. When you use of these premade background papers, your stamping just flows to create the scene you want 😀
As promised, here is the list of supplies I used to make this card, each linked to the Fairy Stamper store, for your convenience.
Marina
Treasure Chest
Rock Formation
Ivy Seaweed
Flat Plants
Marianne Design - Punch Die Fish
Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you will create a project and come join the fun. Our challenges go live every other Thursday on our Facebook group. All you have to do is to create a project and upload the pic to our challenge album. There is a $15.00 prize for one lucky participant.
Till next time,
stay safe and well.
