Best Fishes

Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps Built and this week it is a fun Designer's Choice Challenge!   Laurie has challenged us to "Use a Stencil".

And here is the card I created for your inspiration:

The idea for this started with the strip of patterned paper.  I found a scrap of it while going through my blue papers/card stocks.  It made me think of water right away, and I put it on my desk so I would remember to use it.  Perfect for a CAS card, it adds just a hint of water which I played up with the bubble stencil.  I added white gel pen to the larger bubbles.  Then I stamped the fish images, colored them and fussy cut them.  I finished them off with some clear Wink of Stella for some shimmery scales.  You can see the glitter in the photo below: 

And did you notice the sentiment?!  I feel super clever about this one.  I was looking through my sentiments and saw the "Best Wishes".  I realized that Wendy so nicely used the same font on many of her sentiments.  I stamped the "Best Wishes" after masking out the "W" and then I masked and stamped ONLY the "F" from the Father's Day stamp to create the fun "Best Fishes" sentiment to go along with these fish!  Clever, huh?

I had so much fun with this sketch and the patterned paper that I made a second card.  I didn't use a stencil on this one:

This card uses the exact same sketch, just flipped upside down.  I colored and fussy cut the beaver and added him to the top of the patterned paper so it looks like he is swimming in it.  So fun!  I masked the sentiment so I could stamp the words side by side instead of stacked top and bottom.

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the House blog to see the rest of the DT's creations and then get inky and play along with us.  And if you need any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your ENTIRE order coupon code over in my left sidebar.

Supplies:
CARD #1:
Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Large Tropical Fish", "Small Tropical Fish", "Best Wishes", and "Happy Father's Day"
Taylored Expressions "Bubbles" stencil

Challenges:
CAS(E) #315--sketch

Crafty Creations--anything goes
Cardz TV #86--anything goes
Sweet Stampin'--funny (the sentiment)
A Gem of a Challenge--anything goes
Make My Monday #93--something humorous (the sentiment)
Paper Girls #173--April Fools (sentiment)
Crafty Sentiments--anything goes

CARD #2:
Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Birthday" and "Beaver"
Darice: Woodgrain embossing folder

Challenges:
Creative Knockouts #291--outside fun
Moving Along with The Times #94--for a man
Alphabet Challenge--A is for animals
Incy Wincy--animals
Cupcake Challenge #467--woodland animals (beavers might be stretching it, but they are usually found in the woodlands)

Double Trouble #24--Thing #1: let's get groovy (wood grain embossing folder); Thing #3: woodland critters; Thing #2: link up to the Cupcake Inspiration Challenge
2 Crafty Critter Crazies #25--anything goes with a critter