Birthday Card | Back to Basics and Beyond Challenges #26 "Use a Spray" - Ellen Hutson "Inner Mermaid"

Hey!

I would like to share a shaker tag card with you today featuring a great textured background using Hero Arts’ Starry Night Stencil. This card is posted, along with the other beautiful Design Team submissions, over on the Back To Basics and Beyond Challenge Blog - #26 “Use a Spray”.

I blended a Distress Oxide ink background (Salty Ocean & Cracked Pistachio) onto a 5” x 7” white card stock panel, sprayed it with a white pearl shimmer spray, blotted it with a paper towel and flecked it with pearlized water colors. Then I stenciled the wave background texture onto the panel using those same ink colors and a little Blueprint Sketch. I spritzed blue pearl spray through the stencil to highlight the waves. I LOVE this stencil because it looks like ocean waves, swirling wind or snow, and the stars at night – it can be used for so many backgrounds! This panel was glued onto a card front.

I designed a tag die cut in the Cricut Design Space and cut it 3 times from 110# Neenah Solar White card stock. I blended the tag front using the same inks/stencil and die cut the opening using My Favorite Things Stamps’ Elegant Rectangle STAX Die-Namics. This was also sprayed with shimmer mist. I adhered a piece of acetate to the back of the tag and set it aside. I stamped the mermaid tail from Julie Ebersole’s “Inner Mermaid” Stamp/Die Set with VersaMark Ink onto white card stock and heat embossed it with white powder. It’s so easy to blend distress oxides on top of embossed images and I love relief effect. I blended the interior of the tag with some of the same inks and stamped the sentiment using my MISTI; one more plain die cut was glued to the back of the sentiment background to give it some stability.

I added foam tape to the back of the tag front, heaped a pile of assorted sequins into the middle of the stamped piece and adhered the tags together, creating the shaker. The die cut mermaid tail was attached into place with a glue dot and the entire tag was glued to the front panel. All that was left was to adhere a few sequins into place. I really like the way the stencil pattern plays on the background panel and onto the tag and although the photos can’t quite capture the reflection, the shimmer spray really makes this card sparkle!

I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Simply Create Too - Anything Goes/No Twist #148

Daring Cardmakers "Bingo" Challenge - Stamping/Paper/Die Cuts

613 Avenue Create - April/Anything Goes #220

Love to Craft Challenge Blog - #33 April Anything Goes

Thanks so much for joining me today!

Rachelle ♥