We are so excited to welcome a new friend to The CLASSroom today, the fabulously talented Amy Rysavy! You have undoubtedly seen Amy's beautiful creations "around" the internet with companies that have been lucky enough to work with her like Honey Bee or challenges like The Color Throwdown Challenge.
You can see more of Amy's fantastic work on her blog, Prairie Paper & Ink. And while you are there, show Amy some love and leave a comment there before June 22nd for a chance to win a $50 coupon to use in our store!
And not only is Amy here today to inspire us for mermaid week but she also has another sneak peek for you of Mermaid's Tail, a new Essentials by Ellen release coming next week!
Hello everyone! AmyR here and I'm so excited to be sharing this fun shaker card with you all using the new Mermaid's Tail stamp set and coordinating die set.
I started off by stamping the mermaid tail image onto Ranger watercolor paper with Delicata Golden Glitz ink and heat embossing it with Ranger Princess Gold Embossing powder. I did some quick and easy watercolor over the tail using my Daniel Smith Dot Charts (specifically Pthalo Green, Duochrome Emerald and Duochrome Arctic Fire) and a waterbrush then let it dry before die cutting it with the coordinating wafer die.
I used the Daniel Smith dot charts and my waterbrush to create "waves" for my shaker background. Essentially I just touched my waterbrush to the dots of paint (Pthalo Blue and Pthalo Green) and drew waves onto the watercolor paper. I kept moving the color around and letting them blend into each other.
To make my card a shaker I die cut white card stock with a circle wafer die, and added the trio of bubbles from the Mermaids Tail coordinating dies. I backed it with a piece of acetate then used a double layer of foam tape. For the shaker element I used the Seaside Holiday sequins from 28 Lilac Lane, after adding those I adhered the die cut piece to the watercolored "wave" background.
As a final embellishment on the card front I added some Tonic Nuvo Jewel Drops in Sea Breeze, Orange Marmalade and Key Lime.
I finished off the inside of the card by stamping the mermaid tail with the Delicata Golden Glitz ink and stamping a sentiment from the Mermaid's Tail stamp set with Hero Arts black ink.
And here's the finished card!
I love how the Nuvo Jewel Drops go so well with the sequin mix. And that mermaid tail stamp? SOOOOO pretty with the Princess Gold embossing powder – you wouldn't even need to color it after that (I almost didn't – but I was itching to use my dot charts LOL).
I also love the mermaid tail stamped in the Golden Glitz ink and not embossed – which was why I used that ink for the heat embossed image (rather than Versamark) as I planned to stamp it on the inside like I did here.
So that's it from me today! Thank you all so much for joining me and be sure to check out the supplies if you're interested in the links below!
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***The Essentials By Ellen Mermaid's Tail stamp & die sets will be available on July 10th!***
