My daycare provider's daughter is in synchronized swimming. For a birthday card I immediately thought she needed a mermaid card!
My inspiration for this card was Mona's yellow box card. I tried to make as may items yellow as I could and carried that throughout the card.
The most challenging part of making twisting popup cards is the front cover! You want the wow factor to be inside, so struggle to come up with a simple design for the front that won't steal the show (and all the hard work put into the inside)! The small image in the collage is the cover and I think it ended up pretty sweet. I did a inked embossing folder for the background and punched a hole in it.
I used Lawn Fawn stamp sets for most of the characters/critters. The background was blended using Tim Holtz Distressed Ink. Everything was colored using Copic markers (yay, coloring!).
I really liked the added elements hanging off the center twisting popup. If you try doing this be careful everything stays within the card when it's closed!
I hope you love it as much as I do :). It was hard to let this one go... Now, sit down and try doing it on your own!
