Birthday Card

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted a card… since I’ve made a card even! So of course I went a little overboard on this one. But I love how it turned out! As you can tell, it’s for my friend Jennica. We are dance partners and we did a mermaid routine together, so I thought another mermaid card would be fun. I didn’t want it to be exactly like my other one though.

I started with a little bit of mixed media on the background- some gesso, followed by watercolours applied with the packaging and splatter technique. While that dried, I made the mermaid tail. I took a bunch of scrap blue and purple and gold paper, as well as some of my green Crate Paper Flea Market vellum, and used a hole punch to punch 3-6 tiny circles from each. I sketched a tail on some scrap paper and then glued the circles on in a scale pattern. I then trimmed the excess paper. I cut a fin out of the green vellum, applied some gesso to the edge to make it curl and stitched gold lines on it. I also stitched a couple of gold lines around the edge of the card.

For the sentiment, I experimented quite a bit with hand lettering, but no matter what I did, I couldn’t make it small enough to fit, yet stand out on the card. So I decided to use alphas and my silhouette instead. I used Jillibean Soup Muschroom Gray alphas, and cut Happy from a tear apart tab sheet, both from my Scraptastic Club This Must Be The Place kit. I used a bit of gold liquid watercolour on the grey alphas to give them a bit of shimmer.

I posted this:

on Instagram, and this is what I used it for. I used watercolour for the blue, and then used an open cell sponge to dab embossing ink on it. I used gold embossing powder to get that lovely texture. I wrote “Jennica” out in Silhouette Studio and cut it in a couple of different sizes on scrap paper to find the ideal size. Then I cut it out of this lovely blue and gold paper I made. I thought it was so pretty that I didn’t want to let any of it go to waste, so I fussy cut around the edge of the watercolour and stuck it to the envelope.

Lastly, I embellished with sequins and little heart puffy stickers from the dollar store.

Can you believe I fit all that onto a 4.25 x 5.5 card?

xoxo

A