Hello and happy Wednesday! I’m on the Seven Hills Craft Blog again this week with this colourful mermaid window card. It’s been a long couple of weeks at work and I needed some colouring therapy, so this background from My Favorite Things gave me the perfect opportunity to sit down and escape for a while!
Mermaid Window Card Tutorial
I started by stamping the sitting mermaid from the MFT Mermazing stamp set with some MFT Black Licorice Hybrid ink. This meant I needed to create a mask for her so I could stamp the rock underneath. I also masked the rock so I could stamp the MFT Wavy Coloring Book Background. I then spent a happy half an hour colouring it all in with my Copic markers (Mermaid: Rs, YGs, Es, Vs, Ys, WGs; Background: BGs, Bs). I had fun colouring this one, exploring depth of colour and shadows in all the nooks and crannies of the background. It was a great opportunity to practice! It was almost a shame to cut it down to A6 size so it would fit on a card base.
To make the card base, I took a top folding A6 card base and adhered my coloured panel to the inside. Next, I then used the second largest die from the MFT Inside & Out Stitched Circle STAX Dienamics to cut a window from the front of the card, making made sure to align this with the mermaid so she would be seen through the window. Then, I adhered some acetate to the back of the front panel so I had a little window card looking through to an undersea grotto.
I cut out a few more circles of varying sizes and inked them up with colours that coordinated with my coloured background. Next, I arranged them on the front panel so they looked a little like bubbles and stamped the sentiment from Lawn Fawn’s Critters in the Sea set.
This is a great little general card to cheer someone up!
Supplies
Please see below for information on the supplies used in this post. Please note, affiliate links* are used at no cost to you!
- My Favorite Things Mermazing Stamp Set (Seven Hills Crafts, Simon Says Stamp*)
- Lawn Fawn Critters in the Sea Stamp Set (Seven Hills Crafts)