Lets Go on a Mermaiden Voyage!

Happy Tuesday all! Heather fluttering by with a fun Mermaid card today! Here’s a look:

I’ve wanted to try this Distress Oxide color combo for the longest - it was inspired by a fabulous card I saw on Instagram by Nicola Meek (aka nickynoocards)! To create this card, I used a blender brush to ink up a 5 1/2 by 4 1/4 piece of Bristol paper with Evergreen Bough, Pines Needles, and Black Soot Distress Oxides. I then used a tiny paintbrush to splatter the card base with several Finetec Gold watercolors and some black India Ink. Once the card base dried I used the Mama Elephant Making Waves Cover Die to cut out this wavy scene! Next, I went to town coloring a bunch of the absolutely adorable Mama Elephant Mermaiden Agenda stamps and cut them out using the coordinating dies.

I mounted the wavy background atop a piece of shiny gold cardstock (which adds the most amazing shine!!) then attached all of the mermaids to the scene and finished the card off with a few of the sentiment speech bubbles from Mama Elephant's Stackable Cuties Stamp Set. I loved making this card and can not wait to use this color combo on a few others. It's so amazing on underwater scenes! That's all for me today - happy crafting!!

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