Sweet Sunday Fishies

It’s time for this week’s Sweet Sunday Sketch, SSSC55. You’ll find the sketch on Karen Giron’s blog The Sweetest Thing.

I’m still on a bit of a lovey dovey kick and when I saw this week’s sketch I knew I had the perfect image. I chose the fun Fish In Love from the Stamps A la Carte-Animals in Love from Taylored Expressions, along with the coordinating saying from the Animal Love Sentiments set. In case you missed the release of these darling animals, Taylored Expressions is offering a Love ‘em All bundle until Monday, Feb 8th. Click here for all the details. 

I stamped the fish with Memento Tuxedo Black onto Choice Snow White and coloured them with copics. They’re cut out with circle Nestabilities then I layered them onto a circle of blue and stamped the sentiment. I covered the entire fish bowl with my clear Glaze pen to make it look glassy. 

To fill in the gap left on the blue circle I added orange Tiny Twinkles. It kinda reminds me of a ship’s port hole with the twinkles around it like that. All the papers, ribbon and button are from my September 20th Key Ingredients. I never thought that I’d be using these papers for a fishy Valentine card but the oranges and blues work perfectly! I used two different Cuttlebug folders to add texture to the base layers then stitched around the striped panel. You can’t tell from the photo or the card but I was running critically low on this gorgeous blue ribbon from the kit so I tied my bow first then cut the remainder into two pieces and adhered them to the card...there’s a gap under the fish image but you’d never know it...shhhh, it’s our secret!

I hope you’ll play along with this week’s sketch and link your creation using the Mr. Linky on Karen Giron’s blog. I can’t wait to see what the rest of the Sweet Sunday Stampers have created so let’s pop over to their blogs now.

Jen Tapler

Laura Fredrickson

Lynn Put

Nancy Riley

Sara-Jane Kale’

Vicki Burdick

and Karen Giron

Thanks for stopping by!

Karen