Birthday Fishes with Wanda

Hi creative and crafty friends! It’s Wanda here today on The Greetery Blog! How has your Summer been? Can you believe it’s August? Hot Summer nights, and maybe some fishing?! Today’s card was inspired by Summer colors and themes. I combined lots of old and new supplies from the Greetery to create a vibrant and silly birthday card – birthday fishes! My goal for today is to inspire you to look at your supplies in a different way – for example – carrot leaves as seaweed!… Let’s get started!

My finished card is a white A2 card base. I layered some stripey paper from my stash (to evoke a beach umbrella)… I used the largest die from the Canned Dies to create my white background layer. I used the awesome Making Waves stencils to stencil the background waves. (I used only a portion of the stencil and that’s good too!) 

I die cut the Honeycomb Crab from salmon cardstock and die cut the fishies and party hats from the Something Fishy die set. I thought it would be so cute to have the crab holding up the fish! (This card makes me smile) I used the Botaniuts Carrot dies to make my ‘seaweed’ for some added interest. I used two sentiments on this card – from the Honeycomb Summer Sentiments and the Something Fishy Sentiments.  I added some aqua colored enamel dots and glitter as my final touches. This will be a fun card for the fisherman/woman in your life!

Have fun – get our your supplies and mix and match everything. Look at your dies in a different way – and who knows what you might come up with! That’s it for my project for today! I hope you have an awesome and creative day! Cheers to the end of Summer and all of its magic. It’s my pleasure to share with you every month. I will see you soon… In the meantime, happy crafting! XO Wanda

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SUPPLIES:

Making Waves Stencil
Canned Dies
Something Fishy Stamp Set 
Something Fishy Die
Hey Honeycomb Crab Die
Botanicuts Carrot Die
Honeycomb Summer Sentiments stamp set
Aqua ink pads and blending brushes
Diamond stickles
White gel pen
Aqua Enamel Dots