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It's Tutorial Tuesday with Leigh time and today I'm going to show you how I made a horizontal slimline card featuring Digi Stamps and SVG Cutz from my brand new FantaSea Collection🧜🏻♀️
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"Coral Balleigh MerMonster"
Horizontal Slimline Make-a-Card SVG Cutz
by Leigh
Today's slimline card features Coral Balleigh MerMonster and the "Mermaid Scales" Horizontal Slimline Make-a-Card SVG Cutz kit from my brand new FantaSea Collection🧜🏻♀️
My new "Mermaid Scales" Horizontal Slimline Make-a-Card SVG Cutz kit is a mer-mazing 12 piece cutting file set that lets you
make a vertical slimline card from start to finish! This kit includes 10 mermaid scale layers perfectly sized to the slimline shape,
a slimline card base with a perforated fold line and 1 mat layer. All LeighSBDesigns SVG Cutz are for popular electronic cutting machines compatible with SVG files like Silhouette, Cricut and Scan n Cut. They are designed in Silhouette Design Studio and always include both Silhouette Studio 3 and SVG files.
First I cut out the slimline folded card base and mat layer included in the "Mermaid Scales" Horizontal Slimline Make-a-Card SVG Cutz kit. I used 138lb (250gsm) heavy weight white cardstock to cut the slimline card. The slimline card comes with a perforated fold line so you just cut it out and fold, easy peasy. The mat layer included in the set is part of the layered scales as it peeks out along the bottom edge beneath the last scale so depending on the colour of the last scale you'll want to cut the mat layer from a different colour if you're using alternating colours. If you're going to do alternating scales like I've done today then you can either plan everything out before cutting or just keep things simple and cut one set of scales plus the mat layer from one colour and another set from the 2nd colour and simply alternate the scales and make 2 cards at the same time!
The slimline make-a-card kit is designed to work with both 8.5 x 11 (A4) and 12 x 12 cutting mats so the size of your cardstock and cutting mat will determine how you lay the mermaid scales out for cutting. I used turquoise and teal from Crafter's Companion heavy weight 12 x 12 textured cardstock to create my alternating scale layers. I cut one set of scales and the mat layer from the turquoise cardstock and a second set from the teal.
TOP TIP:
To keep the mermaid scales in order remove the first scale from the cutting mat and write #1 on the back and so on. This way your scales will always be in order especially if you plan to customize them before assembling or keep for a later make down the road!
Use
the mat layer that comes in the slimline card kit as the base layer to
adhere the mermaid scales to for perfect alignment. The amount of
alternating colours you use and how closely you overlap them will
determine how many scales you will need for your card. I provided 10
but you might need extra or use less so I recommend doing a dry fit on
your mat layer before gluing the scales down. You will also then be
able to determine how much of the mat layer colour peeks out from under
the last scale at the bottom. To adhere the mermaid scales always start with the bottom scale
layer first and
glue as you work upwards, lining up the scale edges with the edge of the
mat layer, for perfect overlapping scales. Working from the bottom to
the top will then allow you to trim away any overlap if you were a bit
off with your dry test.
TOP TIP:
I
just applied a dab of glue to each scallop and a bit on the top edge as
I worked upwards and then put a line of glue along the top edge of the
last scale to make sure the mermaid scale layer was fully adhered to the
base layer.
The layered mermaid scales make a mermazing slimline card on their own or you can customize with a sentiment complete or make it truly mermazing and embellish with a digi stamp from my new FantaSea Collection🧜🏻♀️
I coloured Coral Balleigh MerMonster in Adobe Fresco, printed her out and then used a Torn Edge Crafter's Companion circle die to cut her out. Coral comes with a Mother's Day senti but I had extras of the Mother's Day senti that comes in the Pearl Balleigh MerMonster and Senti set to use. I printed the senti via Silhouette Design Studio and used the offset feature to cut the senti out in a fancy shape.
I then used Waterfall Stickles glitter to edge the layered mermaid scales panel, Coral and the senti too. I decorated the inside of the card with a panel cut from the teal cardstock and added the senti.
I then adhered the layered mermaid scales panel to the front of the folded slimline card base and embellished the the upper right corner with clear dew drop gems adhered with Glossy Accents.
Then adhered the Coral panel to the card front with low profile pop dots for just a little bit of dimension and embellished with 3 clear dew drop gems and a 4th in the top left corner of the card too.
To complete my horizontal slimline card I added pretty magical shimmer by painting Coral's pearl with a Spectrum Noir clear sparkle brush glitter pen. It's always hard to capture just how pretty the sparkle is in real life but you get the idea in these photos!
The "Mermaid Scales" Horizontal Slimline Make-a-Card SVG Cutz kit combined with Coral Balleigh MerMonster makes such a striking slimline card full of FINtastic layered texture. The SVG Cutz slimline card kit may look daunting at first glance but my kit makes it really easy for you to cut out and assemble for lots of fun mermazing card making🧜🏻♀️
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The FantaSea Collection plus all my other Mermaid themed collections are on sale for the entire month of MerMay! Sale ends at midnight pacific on May 31st!
Happy Creating!
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN
Coral is absolutely stunning and I love all the shimmer and glitter she has going on! I loved using the Mermaid Scales Horizontal Slimline Card with my Cricut! It is wonderful to work with! Your card is FINtastic and awesome!
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful love Coral with all her shimmer and glitter!
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful love Coral with all her shimmer and glitter!
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