Birthday Fishes

Good morning and Happy 1st day of April!

Have you had any April Fools pranks pulled on you? I have not...yet, but I am sure by the end of the day I will have.

Have you ever started a card with a specific idea in mind and about half way through making the card, realize it is going in a totally different direction? That happened to me over the weekend with the card I am sharing today.
It started out as a simple birthday card and ended up being quite a bit more detailed.

I started out by stamping the fish, seaweed, cupcake and hat, colored them all with copics and cut them out. I adhered them to the white cs, with one fish, a couple of the seaweed pants, and the cupcake popped. At that point I thought it would look really cut if I could make them look like they were swimming in a fish bowl. So I gave it a try and am quite happy with how it turned out.
To make the bowl, I stamped the fishbowl on pumpkin cs and cut out the middle of the bowl. I glued a piece of acetate on one side of the fishbowl. I lined the edge of the cs with foam strips just like you would when making a shaker card. Before I attached the fishbowl, I added a few more details to the fish scene - glitter on the fish and cupcake, crystal lacquer on the candle, birthday hat and the fishes lips, rain dots for the fish bubbles and sticklers on the bottom to look like sand.
After I was finished with the card it reminded me of a shadow box.

Thanks for visiting with me and have a wonder Wednesday my friends!
Hugs,
Sharri

Card details
Stamps: Best fishes, Sushi Bowl Party
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Wild Wasabi, White Pure Luxury. DP is Rainbow Sherbet
Accessories: Copics, Sticklers, Glitter, Quickie Glue Pen, Rain Dots, Pearls, Acetate

Cookies for Santa

Happy Friday!

This is a result of a couple of things I have on my mind this week. Cookies and Christmas.
I wanted to make a card using a new set I recently got from Gina K, Have a cookie.
After stamping, coloring and cutting out the cookies and milk, I took a break and browsed the planet. There was a photo that caught my eye. The card was made by Libby Hickson and you can find it here. The card was a snow globe. It was about the cutest thing I have seen and of course I wanted to give it a try.
My globe has a Christmas theme - cookies for Santa!

The cookies and milk are colored with copics. The dp is Ski Slope from the SU mini catalog.
I used my circle nesties to cut the acetate for the globe. There are two circles. The base of the globe is from a template I sketched then traced it on kraft paper. I cut out two bases and covered them with the dp to make the base thicker so it could easily stand. The acetate circles are attached to the bases. The cookies and milk are attached to the inside of the back globe. I made a small paper shelf to sit under the cookies and glued glitter on the shelf.
I attached the two globes together with a brad and then covered it with the kiwi ribbon.
I decorated the base with silver cord, silver ribbon and pearl embellies.

I am going to play around and make a few more of these...maybe come up with my Christmas cards...

Have a awesome weekend and thanks you for stopping by!

Hugs,
Sharri