Pool Party

Hello my Friends.  

I hope you are all keeping well and safe as we make our way through these times.

I have a fun, simple card for you today.  

I hope it makes you smile.

So here are my card details.

• I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock and place the Circle mask from A Colorful Life Designs over my paper.  These circle masks are various sizes, so I chose one that filled most of my card front.
• Next, I layered the Primitive Batik stencil from A Colorful Life Designs over the circle mask, and rubbed on some Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers and a hint of Salty Ocean DOX inks using a blending brush.
• I took the inked circle and die-cut a small circle from the center of the the panel.  
• I stamped the little fish from Your Next Stamp with some black Verafine Clair ink, then I used the matching die to cut it out.  
• I rubbed some of the same colours as mentioned above onto my non-stick craft mat and picked up the colour to paint in the fish.
• When he was all dry, I glued it onto the small die-cut circle and repositioned it into the larger panel using pop dots.  
• I added some Glossy Accents over his goggles and some Nuvo drops coming from his mouth for bubbles.
• I stamped the sentiment, then added the panel to a piece of matching blue cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

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Supplies

Stamps- Fish (YNS); Happy Birthday (Stamping Bellas)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair Noir

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Primitive Batik (ACLD); Marvelous Circle Masks (ACLD);

Glossy Accents (Ranger); Nuvo drops; pop dots; paintbrush

Just Swimming By

Hello and Welcome.

Just a fun card I made for one of my little friends that was having a birthday.

Simple card using this cute fish image.

I began by making the background using the 'Splash Watercolour' technique.  I rubbed some Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feather and Cracked Pistachio Distress inks onto my non-stick mat, sprayed with water and slapped my paper into the wet ink, drying between layers of ink.

When it was dry, I used the Avery Elle Wonky Stitched die to cut it out.

Next, I stamped the fish from Your Next Stamp using my Misti, die cut it out and watercoloured with more of the Distress inks. I added some Glossy Accents in a heavy layer over the mask on the fish to add some interest and make it look like it was glass.  I pop dot mounted the fish over the background and added it all to a plain white card.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES
Addicted to CAS- SUMMERTIME
Time Out- PHOTO INSPIRED

Supplies

Stamps- Mini Snorkel Fun Fishy (Your Next Stamp)= Happy Birthday (Stamping Bella)

Inks- Peacock Feather, Mermaid Lagoon, Cracked Pistachio DI (TH)= Memento Black

Paper- Heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Glossy Accents (Ranger)= Misti (My Sweet Petunia)= Cuttlebug= pop dots=

Mister (TH)= Non-stick Craft Mat (TH)= Wonky Stitched die (Avery Elle)= Fish die (YNS)