The Rubber Cafe Design Team Blog: You're a Catch- featuring Creative Cafe' June kit

Saturday, June 14, 2014

You're a Catch- featuring Creative Cafe' June kit

Mary-Ann here with another manly card created with this month's Creative Cafe Kit of the Month - Let's Hear it for the Boys!

I have to be honest with you and tell you that I was worried about what I was going to do with these fish. I mean, I had to use them right? Well, I started with my go-to base card of 5x5. I added a 3 1/2 x 5 block of orange. I cut the newsprint circle with a punch I had on hand. If you don't have a 3" punch, grab a cup, a bowl or anything round, about the size that you want and trace it to get your circle. I tucked the top off of the circle. With pinking shears or any style decorative scissors you have, I cut a strip of the black. I knew that I was going to be stamping in black and wanted to pull it all together. I stamped "Gone Fishin" across a scrap of white and took a scalloped border punch and cut it down to size. Before I attached these two strips, I stamped my fishing pole to the far right. Then I had a problem..... It was too short for what I wanted. So, I grabbed out a thin black marker and extended the pole myself. Perfect! Now I could add my strips of papers.

You can see here that I stamped the fish stamp to three different color blue papers. I did the dreaded fussy cutting to get these guys out. I backed two with foam tape for dimension and then added them like so. I found some black thread and a needle and created fishing twine to each fish. Still needing a little more embellishment, I added black Stickles, you could use a Pearl Pen, to each scallop and to to the fish, on the eyes and fins.