Best Fishes Fred

  It’s all about celebrating birthdays on the High Hopes blog and this week I have a card featuring “Fisherman Fred”. His expression just makes me laugh! I feel like he is thinking ...all that work for this tiny fish?! I am sure he has a story about the big one that got away..........all the fishermen always do!

I broke my own rules with this stamp. After stamping and colouring Fred with Copic markers, I fussy cut him and cut the tackle box away from his foot. I like to leave the stamps in one piece but this scene called for a little thinking outside the box because I wanted to use the pond with him. I set him aside and cut patterned paper from the Gone Camping collection from Carta Bella to fit my card base. Next I cut a piece of matching card stock slightly larger then my coloured image, added some water color paper for the sky and wrapped a some twine around the bottom. I stamped the sentiment from two different sentiments - this tested my patience to be honest! - and double mounted it on matching card stock. Some enamel dots finish off my card. 

          

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Fisherman Fred (T086), Spring Pond (TLF034)  - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - Christmas Fishies (G235), Swinging Birthday (H191) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Gone Camping - Carta Bella, Water Color Wishes - Lawn Fawn

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Hammermill 100lb digital cover stock, twine, enamel dots

 Copic Markers:

Skin - E04 E00 E21 E11

Hat/Shorts - E40 E41 E42 E57

Shirt - YG91 YG93 YG95 YG99

Grass - YG03 YG17 G28

Tackle Box - R02 R05 YR18

Worm Can - C1 C2 C4 C5 

Fishing Pole - C1 C2 C4 C5 E31 E34 E35 E29

Shoes - E31 E34 E35 E29

Fish B24 B28 B37 R02 R05 YR18

Water - B00 B01 B02 

Sand - E31 E34 E35 E29

Grass - YG03 YG17 

Lily Pad - YG91 YG93 YG95 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a super fantastic day!

Spring In The Air

 I don't know about anyone else but I am ready for spring! As I type this, we are yet again cleaning up from some unexpected winter weather - snow, cold, and blowing snow that reduced visibility so bad they had to close the roads. Earlier in the week we had a couple days of above zero temperatures, blues skies and gorgeous sun. 

Yes, I am ready for spring....maybe not the mud .... but I am ready for sun and blue skies and that is what inspired my card. The new "Spring Pond" stamp from the This & That new release at High Hopes Rubber Stamps was the perfect backdrop for my spring scene that also includes the previously released "Waddles" and her adorable little ones. It is a beauty of a day for a spring walk.....I wonder if they will pop in for a swim too......

I stamped both stamps on alcohol marker friendly paper and coloured them with Copic markers. I hand fussy cut both stamps leaving a thin white edge around the ducks and set them aside. The Waddles stamp has a cattail and butterfly on it as well but I just wanted to use the ducks for this card.  

I found some patterned paper from Craft Consortium that I thought worked well with the scene I wanted to create. I cut the patterned paper pieces to size and then used some of the pieces I cut off to cut out some grass with a die and added them into my scene. I added Waddles using foam pop dots to add some dimension.

I stamped and cut my sentiment to size and added some stitched puffy clouds, twine and enamel dots to finish off my card. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Spring Pond (TLF034), Waddles (TT138) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - Spring Is In The Air (FDG036) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Grunge Light Tones - Craft Consortium

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Hammermill 100lb digital cover stock, foam pop dots, grass and cloud dies - Your Next Stamp, enamel dots, twine

 Copic Markers:

Water - B02 B04 B06

Ground - E34 E35 E29

Plants - YG25 G24 G28

Cattails - E23 E25 E27 YG61 YG63 YG67

Lilies - E01 E93

Ducks - W1 W2 W3 Y11 Y15 Y17 Y00 Y11 Y15

Thanks for stopping by! Have a super fantastic day!