I Brake For....Hooks and Line!

Hello stampers - Nancy here today!!  I hope the weather is starting to warm up wherever you are - it's been a wild winter this year!

I have a cute card for all the fishing fans out there..

The main image is called Hooks and Lines and can be found HERE.

This is such a great stamp and I did something with it that some of you may not have done before - I cut the stamp up!  I knew I wanted to use the images in a variety of ways  - it started as one stamp and ended up being a group of individual stamps - take a look:

Don't be afraid to cut up stamps - I have never regretted any that I have taken apart.

I stamped the lures using a stamp positioner and colored them with copics.  Once the coloring was complete I cut a generic fish shape using a Silhouette cut file and stamped a birthday sentiment on it.

Then I pulled out another stamp set called Luncheon Meat - fund HERE - and stamped one of the fish images, colored it, cut it out and popped it up on the front.

I used a bunch of prisma pencils to color the lures,,,,,

I hope you hope on over to the IBFS store where there are a nice variety of fishing and lure images.  Perfect for Father's Day, or for anyone who likes fishing!

Thanks for stopping by today!

I Brake For.....Luncheon Meat!

Lunchoen Meat???  Hi everyone it's Wednesday and time to show you what I did with the cute and funny stamp  from I Brake For Stamps called Luncheon Meat.  First let me show you what the stamp looks like:

Cute, right?  I love the look on the faces of the fish and the helpless worm!  I wanted to go in a different direction with this stamp though.  Here is my card:

To get the most use of my stamps I try to think of various ways to use them.  My card is an exercise in masking and using a stamp positioning tool (I used the stamp-a-ma-jig).  Once everything was stamped I pulled out my copic markers,  set up a rainbow palette and went to work.   My inspiration for the card was this t-shirt:

Once the fish were all colored I worked on the background.  The watercolored look of the background was created using copic colorless blender in an aqua brush.  I then scribbled some very rich blue color (B69) on a craft sheet,  picked it up with the aqua brush and simply brushed on the color.

Now, if you don't have copic colorless blender you can use rubbing alcohol but the color many not be the same.  

The sentiment on the bottom of the card is computer generated.

The Luncheon Meat stamp can be found on the IBFS store here.

Then I did a second card.  Have you ever cut your stamps apart?  This is one of those stamps that can be cut apart and used in a variety of ways.  In the next card I used the worm an two of the fish. 

 I can see using those fish individually for so many different cards. The worm and fish were colored, cut out and popped up.  And it was a bit tricky cutting that little worm!!  

The waves were created using a couple of curved border dies and I don't know if you can see it well from the picture but the bottom of the card is embossed with a design that looks like waves.

I hope you have enjoyed these cards.  Please take a look at the IBFS store to find all sorts of fish stamps! 

Thanks for stopping by!

I Brake for Fish ...

Hello IBFS fans !!

It's Crystal here and on today's card I and using Luncheon Meat and Bubbles to create my card .

the inside is just a water mark of the fish I stamped it three times without re inking the stamp to get lighter images toward the back of the fish school I created .

I think that worm better Wish Big to get out of this one or he may just be lunch lol , I thought this would make a cute birthday card or card for someone needing some extra love

for these images and many more visit the I Brake for Stamps online store …. Happy shopping my creative friends ….

I Brake for Birthday Fishes!

Hello and happy Saturday!

The best day of the week!

Today I'm sharing the birthday card I made for my niece.

I'm not sure why it took my so long to order this adorable set??

I say "set" because I cut the worm apart from the fish so I could put him where I want to.  (maybe sometimes even on the inside of the card)

The image is called LUNCHEON MEAT.

I wanted to make the card extra fun for Riley so I created a shaker to mimic the bubbles and colors of the ocean.

On the inside I used BUBBLES.

The waves are the flip side (negative) of the waves I die cut for the front of the card.

Here's a photo of the shaker all shaken up.

I can't wait to give this to her.