Best Fishes for a Happy Birthday Chris

I got this die set from Spellbinders because there are several men in my life who are fishermen, including my son, Christopher. I created this card for him.

The great thing about using small die cuts is that you can use up a lot of scraps of paper. Everything on this card uses scraps, except the shirt, which I went searching through my plaid patterned paper to find a small one that would look good with the brown pants I had cut.

Since fishing waders are rubber I pulled out a mat black cardstock for them. Since I grew up in Idaho I made the fish rainbow trouts with come Copic Markers.

A panel of pale blue cardstock was cut to be the size of an A2 card front and the edges were ink blended from a little dimension and visual interest.

The waves were cut from a scrap of blue cardstock and dry embossed with a wave embossing folder and then cut along one of the waves to make to fit underneath the pier. The pier was dry embossed with a woodgrain folder.

All the elements were adhered with a combination of liquid glue and foam strips.

The sentiment is from a Art Impressions stamp set called Reel Great Guys.

PRODUCTS USED:

·       Spellbinders Fairways and Fish Tales Dies 

·       Art Impressions Reel Great Guys Stamp 

·       Avery Elle Pierced Clouds Dies 

·       Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Inks: Marine, Cadette 

·       Gina K. Designs Charcoal Brown Ink 

·       Copic Markers: E00, E01, E11, E27, W0, W1, B24, B26, R20, YG03, B00, R56, R00 

·       Limited Papers Accent Opaque White Digital Smooth 120# Cardstock 

·       Papertrey Ink Hawaiian Shores Cardstock 

·       Spellbinders Timber Cardstock 

·       Gina K. Designs Kraft, Whisper, Dark Sage Heavy Weight Cardstock 

·       Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid Chill Paper Pack 

·       Paper Accents Black and Silver Mirror Cardstock 

·       Red and White Cardstock Scraps 

·       Stampin’ Up Pinewood Planks 3D Embossing Folder 

·       Spellbinders Waves Embossing Folder 

·       Waffle Flower Foam Strips