My Otter Half Cards with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi here today, popping in to share some otter-themed cards for summer using our My Otter Half Stamps.

For my first card, I stamped and masked off the kelp and underwater plants from our Ocean View Stamps, Best Fishes Stamps, and Fintastic Friends Stamps so they were all on a single layer along the bottom of my card. I used the large clear stamp in my positioning tool to mirror the rock and plant image from the Ocean View stamps so that the tall portions of the plant could be on the outer edges for both sides of my card. I then layered a piece of aqua colored vellum which I die-cut along the top using our Slimline Nature Border Dies. I happened to have this vellum in my stash, but I also found some colorful assortments on Amazon HERE, HERE, and HERE.

The two adorable otters from our My Otter Half Stamps take center stage, with half of their bodies under the water and half above. I didn't want to mess with spray adhesive, so I used my sewing machine to stitch the vellum in place. Sadly, my machine has issues, so don't look too closely. I inked up some clouds to match the turquoise water using Peacock Feathers distress ink and our Fluffy Cloud Border Dies cut from masking material. I completed my card by stamping one of the punny sentiments from the set on a speech bubble from our Comic Strip Speech Bubbles Dies and adding three tiny hearts from our Basic Mini Shape 2 Dies.

For my second card, I started my scene by layering the mountains and trees from our Spring Scenes Stamps along the top of my card and then tucked in a grassy border using our Mini Grass Border Dies. For my lake, I inked up my cardstock panel with Salty Ocean, Mermaid Lagoon, and Prize Ribbon Distress Inks before drawing loose ripples with my B16 Copic Marker. For my family of otters from the My Otter Half Stamps, I carefully cut the two snuggling otter apart so that I could tuck them around the mama otter holding the baby otter to look like a family of four. I then stamped the punny phrase "We Need Each Otter" onto our Brilliant Banner 2 Dies which I die-cut from a green print from the Classic Sunburst Paper pack.

That wraps up my projects for this morning. I hope I've inspired you in your own cardmaking and that you spread a little happiness by sending out a card to a loved one today. 😊

Don't forget to check out our My Otter Half Stamps, Best Fishes Stamps, Spring Scenes Stamps, and Fluffy Clouds Border Dies in our online shop, which are all currently on sale!

Also, please check out all the card ideas using these sets on each of their product pages. I always make sure to upload tons of card ideas following the product image so there are lots of ideas to scroll through there organized by set. 💛

Supplies Used:

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Best Fishes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Best Fishes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fluffy Clouds Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	My Otter Half Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
My Otter Half Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fintastic Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fintastic Friends Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ocean View Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Ocean View Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Basic Mini Shape Dies 2 Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classic Sunburst Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Spring Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Grass Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio