This sweet little mermaid is from the greeting farm stamps. I absolutely adore her. I think I ended up with 4 variations of this card but this one is my favorite. I also made one in blue, pink & purple.
The background was done by taking some Tim Holtz distress ink and squishing some down on a craft mat; one in broken china and the other color in scattered straw. I then spritzed the inked areas with a light spray of water to get them blending. I took some water color paper and smushed it down through the colors. This will put a very light coat of color on your paper so you may want to let your paper dry and then do it again. Once I dried mine I lightly tapped areas in left over blotches of color which is how you get the darker splotches. I just think it adds a bit of dimension that way.
For the mermaid I also used more distress markers. Her hair is marmalade over scattered straw. I painted in the highlights first on all the bumps of her hair and then went back in with the darker shade in all the dips. I did all this by putting some color down on the craft mat with the stamp pad and then using a paint brush. It just gives me more control and I feel that it blended better than trying to color first and then blend it out with the pen. I did her tail in much the same way. I used some moss and evergreen and tried to give it some dimension. I went over her tail & top with rock candy stickles as well which doesn't show well here.
The card base & background were cut out using my nested circle dies. I just used plain black background because I thought it set off the mermaid nicely. I folded a small edge on the back circle and attached it to the front of the card so it still opens but doesn't bend the front panel.
The background was done by taking some Tim Holtz distress ink and squishing some down on a craft mat; one in broken china and the other color in scattered straw. I then spritzed the inked areas with a light spray of water to get them blending. I took some water color paper and smushed it down through the colors. This will put a very light coat of color on your paper so you may want to let your paper dry and then do it again. Once I dried mine I lightly tapped areas in left over blotches of color which is how you get the darker splotches. I just think it adds a bit of dimension that way.
For the mermaid I also used more distress markers. Her hair is marmalade over scattered straw. I painted in the highlights first on all the bumps of her hair and then went back in with the darker shade in all the dips. I did all this by putting some color down on the craft mat with the stamp pad and then using a paint brush. It just gives me more control and I feel that it blended better than trying to color first and then blend it out with the pen. I did her tail in much the same way. I used some moss and evergreen and tried to give it some dimension. I went over her tail & top with rock candy stickles as well which doesn't show well here.
The card base & background were cut out using my nested circle dies. I just used plain black background because I thought it set off the mermaid nicely. I folded a small edge on the back circle and attached it to the front of the card so it still opens but doesn't bend the front panel.
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