Fishing you a great day!

Hi All,

Long time, no blog! I really do need more hours in the day.....or helper monkeys! 

As promised to those of you who came to Dabble Day a couple of weeks ago, I promised I would get round to doing some instructions.

Sue Wilson gave us the idea for this card using her Fishbowl Die set at the Trade Show earlier this year. She has a video tutorial here.

I had filled the Creative Expressions treat cups with hand sanitiser and used Cosmic Shimmer glue to adhere an acetate circle to the back to seal it ahead of time, as advised - it really does take a couple of days for the glue to completely dry!

Using the circle die that come with the Fishbowl die set I diecut a piece of coconut white cardstock - this is what i created my fishbowl scene onto. 

I stamped and heat embossed all of my images (from the Fishbowl Friends set) using black Versafine Ink and clear embossing powder. Stamp the pebbles first and then mask them off and stamp the cat so he'll look like he is peeking through the fishbowl - Tigger would definitely do this if i had a fishbowl, in fact I think he'd have his paw in 'fishing'! I stamped the No Fishing sign and fish onto extra coconut white card and cut these out by hand. Smoosh various colours of distress ink pads onto a craft mat and mist with some water to create your own water colour palette and use a paintbrush to colour the images. Stamp some bubbles using Tumbled Glass distress ink. 

The seaweed was diecut from coconut white cardstock and distress inked using a blending tool in one of greens (possibly peeled paint). I diecut my fishbowl out of the piece of Colorcore cardstock that i used for my backing, seeing as you will cover this anyway, and lightly sanded to reveal the 'core' around the edges. 

Distress the edges of the aqua coloured cardstock with a distressing tool and mat the spotty paper on top with an equal border around the edge. Then use the circle die from the Fishbowl die set (the same one you used to cut the circle out for your scene) and cut a circle from the bottom right hand side (make sure you leave enough room so that the lip of your treat cup will not hang out of the side once it is pushed through). Lay this piece which now has a circle aperture onto your card blank and stick your fishbowl stamped scene through the aperture onto the card blank.

Now put glue round the lip of the treat cup push it up through the back of the circle aperture, use tape to hold in place for extra adhesion until the glue dries. Now stick this whole piece onto your card blank and your fish scene should show through the treat cup.

Stamp and emboss the greeting onto the back on the patterned paper circle you have left (it then matches the ivory spots perfectly), distress around the edge with tumbled glass and stamp some bubbles. Mount this onto your card with foam pads.

Products used (i have created links to the items we have on the website, all other items in stock in store)

Sue Wilson Fishbowl Die Set
Creative Expressions Clear Stamp Set Fishbowl Friends
White 5x5 Cards & Envelopes
Creative Expressions Treat Cups
Distress Ink Pads - various colours
12x12 Colorcore cardstock
12x12 Canvas Corp Paper - Blue & Ivory Dot Reverse
Versafine Inkpad - Onyx Black
Clear Embossing Powder
Paintbrush
Craft Mat
Water Mister
Heat Gun
Blending Tool & Foam
Distressing Tool
Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic Glue
Acetate

Thanks for reading.
Bye for now
Lisa
xx