Tropical Birthday Fish Tutorial

Happy Friday! Today I have the tutorial for a card I shared on Tuesday, featuring Gina's new Birthday Greetings stamp set, along with images from Under The Sea. Also featured are some gorgeous pearl embellishments from Zva Creative! I was so lucky to recently receive a wonderful package of Zva goodies in the mail and I've been having so much fun playing with it all.

On the inside of the card, I stamped a verse, from Birthday Greetings, and then stamped one of the fish, from Under The Sea, using Memento Bahama Blue ink.

To begin my card, I stamped the two smaller versions of the clownfish and butterflyfish, using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. To color the first fish, I began by filling in with Y17.

Added YR07.

Added R08.

Then, for the stripes, I used N5.

And added N7.

For the clownfish, I began with C5 on the stripes.

Then added N7 to shade.

And added 100(black) to shade even more.

For the opposite stripes, I filled in with B00.

Then shaded with C3.

After coloring, I cut out both images with my Cutterbee scissors.

For the background, I used Spellbinders™ Nestabilities® Classic Circles to cut a piece of Pure Luxury White card stock, then sponged with Memento Bahama Blue ink.

Then stamped the seaweed with Memento Bamboo Leaves.

Instead of sponging the sea floor this time I used Copics to color it. I colored in an area with E31, then added some shading with E33.

I thought the Zva pearl swirls would make the perfect embellishment to mimic air bubbles for the fish, so I took a package and cut it into sections on the transparent sheet. Then when I was assembling my card, I could move the pearls around to see where I wanted them, before peeling them off the transparent sheet.

Here you can see the finished card. I stamped the birthday greeting on another circle and sponged with Memento Bahama Blue also. I adhered that to a piece of Pure Luxury Turquoise Sea, which I had scored with my Score-Budddy. The large circle was adhered with Pop Dots, then I added the pearls. I also cut some individual pearls to place immediately above each of the fish. I layered with a piece of Pure Luxury White and used Ocean Mist for the card base. Finished size 5 ½ by 4 ¼ inches. 


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Thank you so much for taking some time to spend with me. I hope you have a wonderful day and weekend! 

Birthday Greetings Rubber Stamp Set	Under The Sea Rubber Stamp Set	Zva Creative Embellishments	Spellbinders Classic Circles LG
Xyron Mega Runner	Spellbinders Grand Calibur	Scor-Buddy	Pop Dots
Jumbo Sponge Dauber	Memento Ink Pads	Pure Luxury Card Stock

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