August Cookies - Take 2

I must admit that when I saw the theme for this Challenge  - # 101 - I was initially at a loss !! I do not have any fish, fishing, fisherman stamps - digi or otherwise. So I was searching online and venting to a friend, who then reminded me of the fish stamps from Vera Lane Studio. I immediately chose the quirky set that I used for this challenge. You can also find some fun fishing digis at our sponsor's site   - Bugaboo Digi Stamps. They will be providing some of their stamps to one lucky winner who will be chosen from the people who link up a project You have through September 5 to show us how you were inspired by these fun cookies !!

When I chose the digi set from Vera Lane Studio, I knew that I wanted to create a scene with it. I was lucky to find the perfect papers to do just that. This is a fun, quirky card and I really did enjoy creating this one !! I hope you like it !!

• On a Kraft card base, I adhered a piece of Glossy Wave paper from American Crafts.
• A piece of Pebbles paper from The Paper Studio was adhered to the bottom third of the card base. Tombow Adhesives were used on all elements - MONO Adhesive+ runner, MONO Aqua Liquid Glue and also Foam Tabs.
• The sentiment, girl and fish are from the Sakana Set by Vera Lane Studio. I printed them on Neenah Stardust White cardstock  and colored the girl and the fish with Akashiya SAI Watercolor Brush pens. 
• I inked the word FISH on the sentiment and the girl's eyes with Archival Viridian ink. The fish eyes were inked with Adirondack Stream ink. 
• The houses are from a Vera Lane collage sheet - Little Houses. They were already colored so I just had to cut them out and adhere them to the card.  Who wouldn't love to stay in a little house like this by the sea !?!?
• The sentiment was adhered to the top of the card.
• The fish was popped up on the girl's head with Foam tabs.

Details of glossy paper 

Please go to the IF YOU GIVE A CRAFTER A COOKIE page to see all of the creations from our Design Team. We hope we have inspired you to link up something of your own. The challenge runs for 2 weeks so please link up your project by September 5. 

Thank you once again for visiting Meticulosity !!

Debra Davison

August Cookies- Take 1

Our first August Challenge at If You Give a Crafter a Cookie is all about shells and beachy colors. I knew exactly what I wanted to use for my card this time and it came together quite nicely. If you have some stamps/supplies that would work well with this challenge, please link a project up before August 23. Our sponsor this time is Pattie's Creations and you could be the lucky person to win some  of their fun digital images. 

 

I used Tim Holtz "Nautical" Mini-Blueprint stamps and a Recollections Mermaid die for this card.  I have had these supplies in my stash - unused - for quite some time so this was the perfect theme for them !!

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• On my favorite Neenah Stardust White cardstock, I stamped the 4 images from the "Nautical" set,  using Ranger Adirondack inks in Viridian, Espresso, Mountain Rose and Stream.
• Each image was made into a square with a 1 3/8 inch paper punch. I mage the 4 images into 1 large square and taped them to each other on the backs, for ease of placement on my card. 
• I cut a piece of white glitter cardstock slightly larger than the nautical square and adhered these to a pale gray-blue dotted card base with Tombow MONO Adhesive+ .
• The mermaid was die-cut and embossed  on a piece of turquoise cardstock using my old faithful Cuttlebug machine.
• I used a paper punch to create the silver glittered crab.
• The mermaid and crab were popped up on the card with Tombow Foam Tabs .

This was a fun challenge and I absolutely love that little mermaid. I die-cut/embossed several and will probably have them on a few cards in the near future !! Be sure to visit the main challenge page  HERE to see all of my teammate's creations. We'd love for you to leave comments and follow each of our pages. Challenges run for 2 weeks and I hope you will get beachy/nautical and share something with us !!

Thank you so much for visiting Meticulosity for this first challenge of August !!

Debra Davison