Peaceful Fishing

Hi there! My card today is for two challenges. First is the Copic Creations challenge to do a reflection technique (I love to do reflections!). It is also for the Teapot Tuesday challenge at SCS. I love these challenges and the fun stories that go along with them. This week, Gullible Gill is trapped in a basket and has multitudes of fish, teapotters, cute animals and who knows what else coming to his rescue. Tommy the Trout (see fish above) just had a run in of his own, with the fisherman in the distance, and is late to the rescue party. Hopefully, he'll be in time for desert.

I used images from Gone Fishing. The trout is colored with Copics, starting with YG95.

Added YG93.

Added YG91.

Tommy is a rainbow trout, so I added a stripe of R22.

Then a little R20.

Filled in with C1.

Then a little more shading on the belly with C3.

The green seemed a little too bright, so I added N3 along the back and fins.

For the background, I started by sponged Memento Desert Sand ink.

Sponged some Memento London Fog.

Then sponged Memento Rich Cocoa.

Stamped the trees, also from Gone Fishing, with Memento Tuxedo Black.

I decided to do a cheater reflection. The image isn't symmetrical, but I thought it might be close enough to look like a loose reflection.  I saw Melanie do this a long time ago thought it was so clever! (and so much easier than pulling out the reflection stamp)

Since the image was somewhat close to being almost an itty bit symmetrical, I stamped it again, upside down, this time with Memento London Fog.  As you can see, the trunks don't line up (nothing unusual there, I can't stamp straight anyway), but I figured I could color it in well enough not to be too noticeable. So, tell me, did you notice my not so accurate reflection when you first saw the card?

I filled in both areas with N1.

Added N3, making some horzontal lines in the water to look like ripples and hopefully make the image look a bit less distinct.

Added N5, mainly to the top and just a few shadows in the water.

Added N7 for the deepest shadows in the top only.

Stamped the silhouette fisherman with Tuxedo Black, then drew in a shadow using N5.

I layered with Pure Luxury Black Onyx and White, then used a Moonlit Fog cardbase. The fish is attached using Pop Dots.

Thanks for stopping by. I'm busy stamping for the new GKD release next week, so I don't think I'll have anything new to show you until Sunday night when the previews begin. Hope to see you then! Have a great day and a fabulous weekend!