overview
Mermaid Card
Updated: August 25, 2025
With the following step by step tutorial you are going to learn on how to make gorgeous Mermaid Card by using your Cricut skills and adding some new skills, in this opportunity the theme is Mermaid and you can change the sentiment to match any occasion, birthday, celebration, thank you, just because, etc.
Difficulty: intermediate
Design: ~30 minutes
Assembly: ~15 minutes
Cutting: ~20 minutes
Material Cost: ~$10
Final Size: 4” x 5.5” Card
Skills
In this tutorial, you are going to learn/practice the following functionalities:
- Slice Images/shapes
- Search Images
- Add Shapes and Images
- Upload Images
- Resize Elements
- Add Text and Change Fonts
- Delete Elements
- Create an Offset
- Attach Elements
- Change colors
- Weld Elements
materials
- Cricut Machine - For this project, we are using Cricut Maker.
- LightGrip cutting mat ($16.99)
- Scoring Pen ($18.19) or Scoring Mat ($17.21)
- Cricut Pen ($18.39)
- Glue ($19.99)
- Optional: Ink ($11.99)
- Glitter Cardstock Sheets 8” x 11” ($6.65)
- 1 aqua glitter sheet
- 1 pink / red glitter sheet
- Cardstock Sheets 8” x 11” 65 lb ($24.99)
- 1 yellow sheet -> Or any desired color for the mermaid hair
- 1 light pink sheet -> Or any desired color for the mermaid body
- 1 aqua sheet
- 1 light aqua sheet