Creative Team - Mermaid Tails & Rainbow Scales Card
By Cheryl Peterie
Products Used
Ranger Perfect Pearls
Sticky Pearl Strip
Tools
Basic tool kit (Crafts4U trimmer, scissors, Crafts4Udouble sided Tape, Crafts4U Foam Tape, pencil, tweezers etc), Ink BlendingTool, Glue, Washi Tape (for holding dies in place), Hinged Stamper, Die Cutting
Machine.
Instructions
Fold & score a piece of A5 white card in half for the
base card in the portrait position, cut a 2.5cm x 10cm (sentiment piece of
white card) Using the Ink Blending tool blend the three colours on the card
front & the sentiment piece & stamp the Happy Birthday image on the
sentiment piece.
Cut a piece of the silver foil card to the size of the
Fish Scale Frame, apply the Crafts4U 100mm x 20m Double Sided Tape to cover the
entire back (leave the backing on) place the die on the silver side use some
washi tape to hold to the cutting pad & die cut (NB: keep 5 of the cut out
pieces) peel off the backing paper (keep backing to use as a stencil for the
mermaid) & attach to the card front leaving an even border then peel the
backing off the 5 pieces & randomly place back in the frame.
Die cut the Star Mermaid from black cardstock, place the
tail of the mermaid under the Fish Scale backing stencil & blend the
colours in three sections down the tail, leaving the stencil in place lightly
dust the blended section with Perfect Pearls.
Attach the birthday sentiment to the card front, using
foam tape mount the mermaid & star under the sentiment then to finish place
some pearls across the mermaids waist.
Created by: Cheryl Peterie
