Mermaid Shaker

Hello, everyone!  Before I get started, I would like to welcome my newest follower - CraftinGranny - thank you for joining me! Today I'm sharing a mermaid shaker card! This adorable Mermaid is the July challenge image at Gerda Steiner Designs.

I coloured the image with Prismacolor pencils and then I fussy-cut and added clear Wink of Stella to her mermaid tail, bikini top, starfish, and fish. It doesn't show up in the photos, but it's quite sparkly! The original image had just one fish but I added a couple extras. It also had a sandy ocean bottom and some seaweed but I didn't use them since the shaker bits would cover them. I doodled some scales on her mermaid tail.

My card began with an underwater background using watercolour markers. I used only two colours this time: Persian Green and Turquoise Green. I wanted to make it different than the backgrounds I made for my shark shaker card and tag, which were blue.  I stamped a few background fish (Newton's Nook - Shark Bites) and bubbles (See-D's Beach Collection), adding white gel pen to the bubbles. For the shaker bits, I used lots of sequins from my stash.

The sentiment stamp is from Newton's Nook - Newton's Summer Vacation, and I heat-embossed it in white on a black scrap.  The scalloped stitched frame die is from Gina Marie Designs.

I would also like to support these challenges (listed alphabetically): Allsorts Frame It 1/3; Artistic Inspirations AG UE; Aud Sentiments For a Girl Plus Sentiment 1/5; Crafting from the Heart AG 1/3; Crafty Catz Add Bling 3/3; Create and Inspire AG 1/3; Creatalicious AG with Optional Add Flowers 3/3; Cupcake Inspirations Tropical 1/3; Cute Card Thursday Embossing UE (heat embossed sentiment); Dies R Us Water and/or Beach 1/3; DL.ART July Linky AG 1/day; Dragonfly Dreams AG UE; Fab n Funky Add a Sentiment UE; Glitter n Sparkle AG 1/3; Inspiration Destination AG UE; Lil Patch of Crafty Friends AG 1/3; Little Scrap Pieces Show it off Saturday 1E: One Stitch at a Time Elements of Nature (water) UE; Penny's Paper-Crafty AG 1/3; Pixie's Snippet Playground Snippets used for sentiment and die-cut frame 1E; Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Create a Scene 3/5; Simply Papercraft AG 1/3; Sparkle N Sprinkle White Embossing Powder used for sentiment UE; The Daily Marker 30-day Colouring Challenge Day 13; Word Art Wednesday AG Uplifting Sentiment 4/5

Thank you for looking at my card! Wishing you a joyful day!