Mermaid Card

I’m super pleased with this card that I made for my friend Maygen’s birthday. She loves the Little Mermaid and I was browsing mermaid card on pinterest
when I came across this card by Mayholic in Crafts. I wanted to do something similar. I’ve also been obsessed with scallops lately so I did scalloping for my ocean.

I also created my own mermaid tail cut file, based on a Little Mermaid coloring page book. I cut it in such a way that the parchment paper fin overlaps the tail and so that there is a hip fin overlay. 

Here’s how I made the card:

Materials

-A2 white cardstock card

-beige cardstock

-9 pieces of blue/green/teal patterned paper/cardstock

-pale green shimmer mist

-parchment paper or vellum

-silver embossing powder and clear embossing stamp pad.

-watercolors

-white thread

-blue/green/teal/silver sequins, gems and enamel dots

-hot glue gun

-green/blue glitter glue

-sentiment stamp and matching ink

-adhesive

-copy paper

1. Cut 3x 0.85 inch circles from each color of paper with the Silhouette. You should end up with 27 circles. Lay them out in rows of 5/6/5/6. 

2. Draw 3 lines half a circles width from the bottom. Adhere the top row of circles down with the bottom of the circle resting on the top line. Glue the second line of circles with the bottoms on the middle line, and the third row with the bottoms on the bottom line. The last row will be half off the bottom edge of the card. 

3. Trim the excess circles with scissors.

4. Spray the card with shimmer mist. 

5. Cut the tail from beige cardstock, using my mermaid cut file (below) and the fins from parchment or vellum.

5. Use a pencil to lightly mark where the hip fins will go and paint the tail below that with purple/blue watercolors. Use a heat gun to help dry it faster without warping. 

6. Cut a scallop stencil (below) out of copy paper (what I used) or stencil material if you have it. 

7. Tape the stencil over the tail and liberally apply the clear embossing ink. Remove the stencil, apply silver embossing powder and heat with the heat gun. 

8. Adhere the tail and the fins overlapping the tail.

9. Use a sewing machine or paper piercer and needle to sew lines down the fin following the curves and a line down the middle of the hip fin. 

10. Stamp your sentiment above the fin.

11. Glue the sequins and gems on randomly. 

12. Use a hot glue gun to make little dots on a scrap piece of vellum or parchment paper. When they cool, transfer them onto the card with a little bit more glue. 

13. For a bit more sparkle, apply glitter glue to the the hip fins, some random scallops on the tail, and the part where the tail and fin overlap. You can also apply it to some of the scallop circles of the water. Let dry, using a heat gun to speed up the process. 

14. Cut a piece copy paper to slightly smaller than your card and use it as a liner for your inside sentiment and to cover up the stitching on the inside. 

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and feel free to share your mermaid inspired cards with me :)

xoxo

-A

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