A Fishy Tale by Fliss Goodwin
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Hi
there, I have a fishy tag to share this week, which is another of my makes with
Donna’s gorgeous new Deep Sea Divas stamp sets. This one was inspired by a
lovely photo I saw featuring a shoal of fish and I couldn’t resist trying to
recreate it.
Ingredients:
That’s Crafty! Clear Stamp Sets – Deep Sea Divas Marina, Textures Set 1
That’s Crafty! Word Series Stencil – Dream (for the bubble border)
White
Copy Paper
Pencil
– I used a soft, graphite one
Recipe:
Paint
the tag with shades of blue and green paints, adding streaks in a downward
direction until the surface is covered. When the paint is dry, use the Moc Croc
stencil to add a little pattern around the edges with magenta paint.
Next
use the bubbles border with turquoise paint and white gesso to add bubbles in
the upper half of the tag. When they’re dry, replace the stencil and use a
graphite pencil to scribble round the bubbles to make them stand out more.
I
stamped the fish, seahorse and starfish on scraps of Gelli printed paper, but
you could stamp them on white card and colour them if you prefer. I then
stamped a shoal of fish directly on the upper half of the tag as if you do
this, you can add coloured bodies over the top without any fiddly cutting out
round the feathery tails. As you can probably guess, that’s what I did, adding
the bodies with clear foam tape after rounding them out with an embossing tool.
I
next die cut some seaweed from further Gelli print scraps and drew some thicker
fronds on green paper with the graphite pencil and cut these out. I glued these
on the tag, layering them up as I went. I tucked a seahorse in between the
seaweed and added a starfish near the bottom.
I
then had a bit of a ribbon issue, as the tag was a bit large for those I had so
I made my own with copy paper. I coloured the paper orange and then stamped on
the bubbly design with the orange dye ink. I pleated the paper roughly after
scrunching it and added it to the top of the tag, tying it up with a scrap of
twine and fanning out the tops.
We
have a great new challenge today over at That’s Crafty! Challenge Blog so do
check it out to see how you can win a great prize just for entering.
Have
a great weekend and see you next week.
Fliss x
6 comments
Oh this is sooooooo beautiful, such a relaxing scene to look at too, gorgeousness on a tag!
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Donna xx
Lovely make with Donna's stamps. I wish, in this heat, I could jump into your tag and swim along with them!
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Amanda x
Beautifully designed Fliss - such a wonderful balance of colour! x
ReplyDeleteOh so charming!
ReplyDeleteWonderful Fliss,
ReplyDeleteI love your water plants and cute fish !!
Dorthe, xxx
Love the colours used with this Fliss it really adds warmth. Such a Happy little tag. Hugs Tracey xx
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