Sunday, May 2

Fishing you a happy birthday

I had been wanting to try a shaped card for ages. I was always intimidated, but the challenge over at Cupcake Craft Challenge was to make a shaped card. I was going to make a flower shaped card, but I wanted to create an aqua card to incorporate the challenge at The Pink Elephant before I ran out of time. Wasn't sure how to put together aqua and a flower, but then my 10yr old decided to help and came up with a better idea. "How about make a fishbowl!" Totally random, but that's why I love him!!! Hahahaha. I decided to keep searching through blogdom for ideas until found this sketch at Card Patterns and this is what I came up with:

The sentiment on the inside says, "fishing you a happy birthday." The fishies are glitter rubons. I couldn't find seaweed looking embellies, but when I saw the challenge over at Practical Scrappers was to use stickers, I dug through my stickers and found this tree I thought would work okay. The bubbles are clear bubbles stickers by Joanns store brand. Which totally fits the challenges at 365 cards and The Creative Cottage. Papertake Weekly posted a challenge to do something different and this is totally different for me. :) I've never combined so many challenges in one card, but everytime I got stuck, I found another challenge to 'unstick' me! :)



19 comments:

  1. What a fun card!! I love the shape!! Thank you so much for playing along with us at TPE this week!!
    Sheri-TPE DT

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  2. WoWzA, this is sooooo cool! I love it!!

    Can you send your 10 year old to my house for awhile?!? What a great (secret!) source of inspiration!

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  3. How totally cute!! I love the sentiment too....Fishing you a happy birthday!! How clever!! And look at all of those challenges you hit...girlllll you rock!!!

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  4. This is just sooooooooooooooooo stinkin' cute cute cute!! LOVE IT!:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)

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  5. fabulous card love the design. Thanks for joining this weeks Creative Cottage Challenge. hugs Tracy x

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  6. Beautiful card! Love the crackled effect on the water! Thanks for playing along at Practical Scrapper´s!! /Pia

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  7. what a great idea for a shaped card. I love it!
    Lisa ;)

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  8. WOW what a funny card~!! thank you so much for joining us at Practical Scrappers this week! :)

    hugs
    Sasya

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  9. What a super fun card. I just love it! The ideas we can get from our kids are always the best. Great job. Thanks for playing along at Practical Scrappers.

    Pam, Practical Scrappers DT

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  10. This is such a fun card Christina, the sentiment is great.xxx

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  11. This is just adorable and oh-so-creative! Love those little fish.

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  12. This is great such a unique crad, thanks for joining us at the creative cottage challenge this wk hugs Rebekah x

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  13. I think the palm tree works just fine. Great work with the stickers. Thanks for joining us this week at Practical Scrappers.

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  14. Fabulous! So creative!!

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  15. What a fabulous card Christina! It's so original. Your little guy is quite the little helper :) All your elements came together beautifully. Thanks for playing with us at Practical Scrappers!

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  16. Such a fun whimsy card! Way to use up the stickers while playing along with us this week at Practical Scrappers!
    Blessings,
    Kim xXx

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