Birthday Fishes

Hey stampers, Anni here!

Today I have a no line coloring fish birthday card for you! What medium do you use for no line coloring? I tend to reach for coloured pencils when I do this technique. In fact I never used another medium, I think.

For this card I used the stamp set Gill Friends by My Favorite Things. I stamped some of the fishes with My Favorite Things' Grout Gray Dye Ink which is a very light ink. Then I coloured with pencils, and added a lot of shading to define the shapes. The eyes I drew with a black gel pen and added some highlights with a white one.

For the background I ink blended some Distress Oxide ink on white cardstock. I used Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky, Blue Print Sketch and Black Soot. To create the bubbles I drew circles with only water and dabbed it away very carefully after a little bit of waiting.

I wanted to have a little bit of underwater plants. But I don't have that kind of dies in my stash so I had to improvise. If you believe it or not but these plants are Flora & Fauna's Holiday Foliage. I die cut it from several scraps of green cardstock.

I also stamped the sentiment in black direct on the cardbase - thanks to my stamping tool.
Then I assembled the card.

So let me know which medium you prefer for no line colouring! I really would like to know!

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend!
Anni

       

Off the edge Birthday Fishes

Hi, Tara again today with a super cute card featuring one of the new squidgies from Stamping Bella.  I'm a big fan of Stamping Bella as I love to spend time colouring her images as you can go simple or go for lots of detail too as they are nice large focal images and this little dude reminds me of my Dad as fishing was his hobby.

I used my home-made stamp positioner (a few blocks of lego) and got him stamped right up to the edge of my card and then I coloured him in with pencils.  Putting him right to the edge was important for my design as I wanted the fish to be "hanging" off the edge.  So I drew a pencil line down the edge of the card just inside the fish and used scissors and a craft knife to cut along it and carefully around any bits of the image that were hanging over.  I added a mm of white space either side of the fishing line so it wasn't too fragile on the finished piece.  You could get a similar effect with partial die cutting using the co-ordinating die if scissors aren't your thing.

I wanted to make it a birthday card so took a sentiment from MFT's Gill Friends set and after masking off the stamped image just repeat stamped it up the card to get a decorative border of sentiments.

To finish off the card I added a strip of patterned paper from the Fun Time pad from Reverse Confetti to the edge of the "inside" of the card.   Hanging elements over the edge of your card is a neat trick and not something you tend to find on commercial cards so it helps people know it was handmade for them.

OK thats' all from me today - I'll be back on Sunday with some more projects.

Tara