Watercolor Waving Hello with Christy

Hey crafty friends! Good morning! It's Christy here with another card for our current challenge: Distress Mania! I created by background by blending on a whole bunch of Distress Inks, Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs, Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, Evergreen Baugh, and a little Pine Needles. Then I took a paintbrush and flicked some water over top and blotted it away with a paper towel for an even more distressed look.

Then I watercolored my images from Mermaid For You with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens, popping some of them up with foam tape and gluing others flat to the card to create the look of dimension. I thought I was done, but while snapping the photos, the mermaid's tail was just crying for some glitter, so I added some Stickles for a fun pop of sparkle here and there.

I hope you enjoy it! You still have a week to play along in our Distress Mania challenge. Hope to see your projects there!

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Underwater Birthday Bendi Shaker Card!

Good morning!  Jess here with a bendi card featuring a shaker panel and a horde of adorable underwater creatures!  I recently discovered bendi cards and I am in love!!  If you've never seen or created a bendi card before you can see a video tutorial of a bendi card I created last week here.  After getting comfortable with the process I decided to push it a little further and create a shaker panel for one of the sides!  And this is how it turned out!

To start, I stamped a bunch of the critters on Neenah Solar White cardstock with copic-friendly ink and colored them with copics before using my ScanNCut to cut them out.  I also stamped the solid corals using Lawn Fawn inks.  I knew I wanted a few images to be visible from both sides of the shaker so I used a faux lightbox to trace the reverse image on scrap cardstock, colored them with copics, and cut them with the ScanNCut.  I took a little artistic license to create the backside view of the brunette mermaid which you can see below.  I created the shaker using the ocean waves dies as a guide for my Fuse tool and filled it with iridescent sequins.

I also die cut the sand and waves using the stitched hillside border dies from Lawn Fawn.  I blended distress inks onto both sides of the left panel and the background before spritzing it with water and shimmer spray.

Then I cut slits in the background panel and left panel to allow the card panels to bend and attached the shaker and side panel to the background panel.  I adhered the happy birthday word die and all of the critters to the card with glossy accents and then fit the notches into the slits which created the curved shape.

I am so excited by all of the creative possibilities for this type of card and I LOVE that you can take the notches out of the slits and then the card folds completely flat for mailing!

Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you enjoyed my card!  Have a wonderful day!

-Jess

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Mermaid for You	Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Fintastic Friends	Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Life is Good	Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, So Jelly
Lawn Cuts Dies, Stitched Hillside Border	Lawn Cuts Dies, Simple Stitched Hillside Borders	Lawn Cuts Dies, Ocean Wave Borders	Lawn Cuts Dies, Happy Birthday Border
Mini Ink Blending Tool-1	Ranger DIS-27119 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad, Chipped Sapphire	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad, Peacock Feathers	Ranger Tim Holtz March Distress Ink Pad, Mermaid Lagoon
Mister Bottle-2 Ounces Empty	Tsukineko 2-Pack Pssst Sheer Shimmer Spritz, Ultra Fine Mist, Frost and Sparkle	Tsukineko 2-Ounce Refill Bottle, Pssst Sheer Shimmer, Sparkle	Lawn Fawn Ink Pad, Lobster
Lawn Fawn Ink Pad, Pumpkin Spice	Copic Sketch Markers	Couture Color - Caviar Hybrid	Gilding
Classic Crest Super Smooth Solar White 80# Cover 8.5	Environment Desert Storm 80 Lb Card Stock - 25 Pk	Avery Elle Stamp and Die Storage Pockets, Clear, 25-Pack	We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool
We R Memory Keepers FUSE, Fuse Tips	We R Memory Keepers FUSE, Mat & Holster

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Under the Sea!

Good morning, Jess here!  I had a technical snafu earlier this month and had to miss my monthly solo post so I decided to sneak in here on our extra 5th week and share my card!  The new Lawn Fawn release is absolutely mindblowing!!  I cannot get enough of the mermaids!  The Little Mermaid was one of my favorite movies as a kid so here's my interpretation of the iconic scene where the sea creatures sing "Under the Sea" to Ariel.  (And since I'm Japanese I decided to make my mermaid have dark hair instead of bright red hair...in my childhood imaginings, she always looked just like me! ;) )

To create my card I started by stamping the mermaids and sea creatures onto watercolor paper with versafine and then heat-embossed them with clear embossing powder.  Next I watercolored them with Mijello Mission Gold Watercolors and let them air dry for a few hours.  Once they were totally dry I used my ScanNCut to cut them out with a slight border.  (PS I realized that my ScanNCut desperately needed realignment after I made my card...oops...)

To create my border I stamped the small schools of fish onto watercolor paper with versafine and heat-embossed them with clear embossing powder.  Then I painted over the fish with rubber cement to mask them.  Once the rubber cement was totally dry I painted the background with the same Mijello Mission Gold Watercolors.  I flicked various shades of brown over the bottom to create the look of sand.  Once the background was dry I rubbed off the rubber cement and painted the schools of fish.  Next I stamped the sentiment with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder.  I added some highlights to my mermaid's hair with a white colored pencil and added some shimmer to her with a spectrum noir clear sparkle brush.  Finally I arranged my underwater scene with a mix of regular adhesive and foam mounting tape.  

Did you spot Flounder and Sebastian on my card? ;) Here's a closer look: 

So that's my card for today!  Head over to my blog for two more mermaid-filled cards!  Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fabulous day!

-Jess