How to make a beautiful greetings card with a fish sticker

Fish sticker card

Fish thinking of you card

Description

A fish sticker is applied to card, coloured with brush pens, and cut out. This is mounted in relief on a greetings card. Sprayed pond weed, glitter bubbles and a "thinking of you" stamped greeting complete the card.

Materials used

Textured natural white deckle edge greetings card 104mm x 152mm (4¼ x 6 ins)
Piece of white card
Silver sticker Happy fish
Rubber stamp Hero Arts LL662 thinking of you (1 of set of 6)
Crystal glitter glue
Tombow brush pens
Blitzer ink spray
Double-sided adhesive foam pads
Scissors

Method

Apply the fish sticker to a separate piece of white card. Colour inside the fish sticker with Tombow brush pens. Cut it out.

Draw the pond weed outline shape on a sheet of paper. Cut it away leaving a hole to form a mask. Position this on the greetings card using the illustration as a guide. Spray the weed using a Blitzer ink spray. The Blitzer uses felt tip pens as a source of ink and gives an interesting grainy finish.

Colour the Hero Arts "thinking of you" stamp with green and blue Tombow brush pens and stamp the card.

Mount the cut-out fish on the greetings card with double-sided adhesive foam pads.

Draw glitter glue bubbles starting at the fish mouth.

Add a tiny fish sticker in the weed.

Fish thinking of you card made by Shirley Little and reproduced with kind permission.

Hero Arts LL662 thinking of you stamp reproduced with kind permission of the copyright owners Hero Arts. Happy fish sticker reproduced with kind permission of the copyright owners.

This project was originally published at Card Inspirations. It is reproduced here here with kind permission. Card Inspirations are sponsors of the Card Making Inspirations web site.

Product availability

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The layouts and techniques used in these projects are timeless. However, products such as stamps, stickers and patterned papers are quickly discontinued to be replaced by new items. When this happens we suggest that there is a lot of satisfaction in finding an alternative product that suits the design.

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