Happy Birthday Card

Supplies:

Sea Goddess Stamp
Daydreamer Stamp
Happy Birthday Stamp
Black Versa Fine Ink Pad (Tsukineko)
Blue Card Stock (Bazzill)
White Cardstock 4.25x5.5 (Unknown)
Double Sided Tape (Provo Craft)
Foam Tape (Miss Elizabeth)
Glue Stick (Scotch)
Water Color Pencils (Stampin' Up)
Stickles - Icicle and Gold (Ranger)
Brads (Unknown)
Water Brush (Unknown)
Petite Mulberry Paper Flowers (Prima Mktg)

Instructions:

1. Stamp the mermaid images on white cardstock and trim neatly.
2. Color the images using a pink and yellow for the torso and arms, blue green for the tails and dark green for the fins, yellow for the hair and brown for the rock.
3. Cut a piece of white card stock to 4" x 5.25", using the water color pencils fill in the paper with a light brown up to about 2" from the bottom and then go back over the area with some dark brown.
4. Above the brown, fill in 1" with two or three shades of blue.
5. Next add a sunrise to the area above the water that stretches up about an inch, by starting with a yellow. Layer orange and red on top.
6. The remaining area of the white card stock should be colored in with blues, beginning with a light blue above the yellow and ending with a dark blue along the edge of the paper.
7. In the area where the blue and yellow meet in the sky, add some purple.
8. After the paper has been colored, go over the colors with a water filled brush, using the water sparingly. Allow to dry.
9. Using the water brush, blend the colors on the mermaids. Allow to dry.
10. Once everything is dry, add the brads to the corners of the background paper.
11. Cut the blue card stock to 4.25" x 11" and fold to 5.5" to create a card base.
12. Attach the back ground paper to the card front with double sided tape.
13. Attach the Daydreamer mermaid to the back ground paper with the glue stick, positioning her to the left along the upper area of the brown.
14. Using the foam adhesive, attach the Sea Goddess image on the card front on the right side overlapping the Daydreamer image slightly.
15. Add Prima flowers to the the neckline to create a lei, on the Sea Goddess and place small dots of gold Stickles to the flower centers.
16. Lightly squeeze gold Stickles out of the tip of the bottle and dot the brown area of the painted paper.
17. Place small dots of the icicle Stickles randomly to the top of the back ground paper in the blue area. Allow everything to dry.
18. Stamp the "Happy Birthday" image to the left side of the card above the Daydreamer mermaid.
19. Enjoy Sharing!

One layer mermaid

Here's the Daydreamer mermaid again, this time for a one layer challenge over at splitcoast.

1.  Punch circle to mask sun; place on corner and brayer tap using a multi color stamp pad.

2. While your brayer is inked, mask the edges and create a 1/4 inch border

3. Stamp image and color with markers

4. Stamp image on acetate, turn over and rub ink under original image to create reflection; color it lightly.

5. Sponge in the sky using a cotton ball or cosmetic sponge; sponge in the water using circular motions, color in the sun. You can outline it with a black gel pen to make it coordinate with the black lines of the stamped image.

Reflecting Mermaid

This lady has a lot to think about, as she sits and holds her head.  To get her reflection, follow these steps:

1.  Stamp Daydreamer mermaid above the center on your white cardstock.

2.  Stamp mermaid again onto acetate. I used versafine quick dry pigment ink.

3.  Position  your stamped acetate image under the original and rub your finger on the back to transfer the ink. The color will be somewhat muted.

4.  Color your main image with bold colors and your reflection with the same colors but lighter tints.  Use a lot of white space and horizontal lines to give the illusion of water and waves.

5.  Accent your work with clear dimensional lacquer. I used crystal effects.

Inside text could certainly be Thinking of you, or Missing you, or even the cute Sweetpea stamps that says D R E A M ...

Sample by cat gondek

Feeling under the water?

This Daydreamer mermaid get well card was fun to make -- my mermaid is holding her own piece of kleenex and has a red runny nose. Poor baby, she also has her box of tissues sitting just below the rock where she is trying to get some rest.

1.  To get her to hold the kleenex, use your smallest punch and punch a row of 3 dots at her hand.

2.  Poke the corner of a piece of tissue through the hole and secure with tape from the back.

3.  Kleenex box is a square with left top and bottom right diagonal corners snipped off.

4.  Draw lines on the back connecting diagonals to see where to cut and create your box.

5.   Mount the pieces on a contrasting color leaving a margin of color showing through.

6.  Cut with a scant 1/8 inch border.

7.  Mount that on a punched circle or 2.

8.  Dimensionally mount on the corner of the cardstock.

Inside text ideas .... Feeling under the water? Hope you feel on top of things soon.

Or ... ( my personal favorite ) Nothing magic, nothing fishy --- Just a little get well wishy.

Sample by cat gondek

Butterfly Thank You

Card created by Cat Gondek

• Stamp background (Butterfly Thank You) in two colors, staggering placement
• Stamp central image and color
• Embellish with pearls and ribbon

Butterfly Thank You

Card by Cat Gondek:

• Stamp Image (Butterfly Thank You)
• Cut image in quarters and mount pieces with 1/8" space to create window
• Cut out curtains and mount
• Use 'Flower Soft' to create window box

Let Us Celebrate

Card by Cat:

• Cut wine glass stencil out
• Wipe ink onto cardstock with cotton ball
• Stamp Text
• Create grapes from punchies, doodle stem
• Use marker on stamp (Let Us Celebrate)

Sweet dreaming mermaid

This mermaid is floating on a sea of torn paper waves - After stamping and embossing mermaid in black, tear a piece of paper with several bumps and valleys and cotton ball your blue ink off the edge in several places on white cardstock.  Mermaid is colored in with markers and glitzed up with shimmery glue.

To create the "dream" in several colors, stamp the image several times in different colors then cut out individual letters R E and M.  Attach those to a base stamped in green or the color of your choice.

I wonder if my mermaid is dreaming of summer beaches, or if it is merely the dream of having a body you can show off with swirling golden curls.

Sample by cat gondek

Butterfly Birthday Card

Supplies:

Butterfly Birthday Stamp
Hunter Green Pigment Ink Pad (Clearsnap)
Clear Ultra Fine Embossing Powder (Ranger)
Teal Cardstock (Unknown)
Floral Printed Cardstock (Stampington)
Gold Bravissimo Vellum (Emagination Crafts)
Double Sided Tape (Provo Craft)
Heather Petite Flowers (Prima Mktg)
Gold Stickles (Ranger)
Heat Gun
Scissors
Paper Trimmer

Instructions:

1. Cut the teal cardstock into a 4.25" x 11" piece and fold in half.
2. Stamp the butterfly image onto the floral cardstock in hunter green ink, coat with clear embossing powder, dust off, heat set and trim the image out neatly.
3. Cut a piece of the gold vellum to 3" x 3.75".
4. Adhere the stamped image to the vellum with double sided tape.
5. Center the stamped image on the card front and adhere with double sided tape.
6. Adhere three flowers to the upper left corner of the image and the lower right corner with double sided tape.
7. Place a dot of stickles in the center of each flower and allow to dry.
8. Enjoy sharing!
   

Butterfly Thank You Card

Supplies:

Butterfly Thank You Stamp
Clear Emboss Ink Pad (Stewart)
Gold Ultra Fine Embossing Powder (Ranger)
Copic Markers (Imagination)

• RV95 Baby Blossoms
• E04 Lipstick Natural
• G94 Grayish Olive
• G24 Willow

Forever Violet Perfect Pearls (Ranger)
VersaMark Pen (Tsukineko)
White Cardstock (Unknown)
Teal Cardstock (Unknown)
Verdigris Bravissimo Vellum (Emagination Crafts)
Gold Bravissimo Vellum (Emagination Crafts)
Double Sided Tape (Provo Craft)
Dew Drops (Robin's Nest)
Heat Gun
Scissors
Paper Trimmer

Instructions:

1. On white cardstock stamp the thank you image in embossing ink, coat with gold embossing powder, remove the excess, heat to set and trim out neatly.
2. Color the butterfly's wings with the VersaMark pen and brush the Perfect Pearls lightly over the area.
3. Using the Copic markers, color in the flowers with the pinks, alternating colors and the leaves with the two shades of green alternating colors.
4. Cut two pieces of the verdigris vellum, the first should be 3" x 3.125" and the second is 1" x 3".
5. Cut two pieces of the gold vellum paper, one piece is 3.25" x 3.625" and the second is 1.25" x 3.25".
6. Mat the vellum pieces of paper, layering the verdigris on top of the gold and centering. Adhere with double sided tape.
7. Mat the thank you image on the larger vellum mat, centering and adhering with double sided adhesive.
8. Cut the teal cardstock into a 4.25" x 11" piece and fold in half.
9. Adhere the matted thank you image in the upper 2/3 of the card front with double sided adhesive.
10. Adhere the remaining layered paper below the stamped image, leaving about .25" from the bottom of the card.
11. Attach 3 dew drops, spacing evenly, to the lower layered paper with double sided tape.
    
12. Enjoy sharing!