Aloha, all!
One of my favorite bundles in the Stampin' Up! 2016-2017 Catalog is the Jar of Love Stamp Set with the Everyday Jars Framelits Die Set. There's so much you can do with this set, but one of the stamps that caught my eye right at the start was the little gold fish. I thought, "How cute to have that swimming in a mason jar!" And then I saw the sentiment, "Best Fishes." OMG, that was just too over the top cute! So finally I have had to use those two cuties together.
I actually made this card a week ago to enter into the Freshly Made Sketches challenge. It's not a challenge I usually follow, but I ran across the sketch on Facebook, and I knew it would be perfect for the challenge. Unfortunately, I had three blog hops/challenges all in a row last week, with no place to park this little guy on my blog. So I posted him on Split Coast Stampers and he's just now making his appearance here.
One of the fun stamps in the jar stamp set is the stamp that you can use to look like there's water in the bottom of any of the jars. I liked this jar because it fit into the sketch better than either of the others (you can see them in the set below where I show the products I've used for this post). A trick to getting this photopolymer stamp to stamp evenly is to place your paper or cardstock on top of a surface that gives a bit, such as the Stampin' Pierce Mat.
I used the Sizzix Framelits Die set to cut out both the jar and the fish. Isn't she so darned cute! I wanted the sentiment under the Calypso Coral Thick Baker's Twine to look like it was coming directly from the fish. So I grabbed another stamp set – Seaside Shore – and used the little bubbles from that set to look like they were coming out of the little fish.
Here's another little trick I use when I have a small sentiment such as this one and just want to cut it into a little rectangle. If you happen to have the Bow Builder Punch, you might have noticed the little piece that's supposed to be the part you wrap around the punched bow. Well that little rectangle fits several little stamps in the Stampin' Up! collection! And it's easy to pull off the shelf and punch!
I liked the circle element in the sketch. Though usually that means just put something in its place, I liked the circle, so I pulled out the Layering Circles Framelits Dies, and made the perfect circle on which to mount the jar image.
The final element in this card is the Seaside Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. I just thought that was the perfect touch to give the whole card some background texture.
Once again – as usual this summer! – I had a fun time making this card. It's hard not to when Stampin' Up! provides so many wonderful products to keep me crafting! Here are the main products featured in the project today. I hope you'll click on some of the pictures to find out more about the products and even purchase them from my Stampin' Up! store! Have fun with them!
