Richard Garay Designs July Card Club: Little Mermaid

Hello there inky friends!  Today I'm sharing a fun card created using the exclusive "Little Mermaid" stamp set from Richard Garay Designs.  This set is available in the July 2020 Card Club Kit.  Are you a Card Club member?  If you are, you know these exclusive kits come with a stamp set, digital files, four kitted card projects with directions and a live online playdate to complete your monthly cards.  The price for your monthly subscription is pretty awesome too, right?  $27.99 a month?!  Yeah!  The VIP perks are also fun too!  

If you aren't a Card Club subscriber, check out all the details HERE.  

I decided to use a fun collection of images in this set to create my card.  Since there are several mermaids in this set, I had to decide which one to feature on my card.  I chose the "sitting" mermaid so that I could also provide her with a nice rock to sit on.  I colored all my images with Copic markers and what fun that was!  

I also worked on adding a fun background that would help create some dimension and depth to my card.  I used Media Mixer and Sweet Blue Sugar Drops reinker to create a fun watery/sky background and then used some Dazzling Pat to add sparkle. I fussy cut all my images and added foam squares to them so that I could mount them onto the card panel.

To create the "window", I used the Hexa Layers dies to create a little wonky window.  Cutting them a little off center and cock-eyed was intentional to help add to the whimsy of my card.

After assembling the card front, I mounted it onto Tangy Orange Sugar Stock (mounted wonky) and then attached it to a Sweet Blue card base.

Copics Used:
B00, B12, BG34, YG41, BV00,
RV0000, RV42, R11, Y02, YR00, YR16, YR61
E50, C3, BV23,W-5, W-7
White Opaque Gelly Roll

Spring Greetings!

Woodware USA's Blog challenge this week is:  USE A DIECUT or a PUNCH...SOOO...

I decided to use my threading water punch (as it goes so well with my turtle image from SEA LIFE)across the bottom of my card to show a PEEK at the fun paper underneath (Paper by TAC).  I did a little doodling around the edge to mimic the border around the turtle too.  IF you look closely, you can also see hints of STARFISH all over the kraft cardstock.  Just used some Worn Linen distress ink to create a watermarked effect. 

Hop over to Woodware USA's blog to check out all my fellow Design Team sister's creations.  Hope you can join us as we have fun using dies of all sorts! 

PS...I'm having fun on Spring Break.  Can you guess where I am?  (THE CARD IS A CLUE!)

See you around!

Ker