Best Fishes!

Playing with more stuff!  I saw a sample on a demonstrator-only Facebook page, and had to try it for my grandsons.  What do you think of this:

I got this adorable new stamp set, Seaside Shore, and thought it would be fun to make a card for Ethan and Jacob.  So I started with the inside--if this wasn't going to work I wasn't going to spend time creating the outside of the card...but it DID work,and it came out so cute.

So here is the card from the front.  I stamped the fish, masked them with a post-it note (stamped the fish and cut out to create the mask) and then stamped over them with the seaweed.  I also added the bubbles.  Then I colored them to make them look "tropical", and I added Wink of Stella to each fish (sorry you can't see how shiny they are).

Then to the inside:

I created a "pop up" by folding my cardstock in half and making a slit about 1-3/4" across the fold.  Then I scored from each end of the slit to the center of the fold--this allowed me to pop out the "mouth" of my fish.

I covered him in Peekaboo Peach Designer Series Paper; his tail is cut from a retired flower punch (but could easily be from a heart punch) and his fins are the retired Scallop Circle punch.  On the back of the card, across the "mouth" I added a stamped banner, glued to either side of his mouth.

Seaweed was added along the bottom of the "ocean" and I stamped and cut some little shells for the ocean floor.  This piece was mounted to little scalloped strips of Peekaboo Peach, and then adhered to the inside of my card.

But I had to have a treat to go with my cute card...

The new Clear Tiny Treat Boxes were perfect!  They are 2" cubes, clear, and such fun to play with.  I cut 1-15/16" x 8-1/2" strips of the Peekaboo Peach DSP and scored them at just under the 2" mark every 2"; this allowed me to insert the paper INSIDE the treat box.  I wrapped them with ribbon and added little tags. These were cut with the Lots of Labels Framelits and decorated with Swirly Scribbles "seaweed" and cut out fish.

And what was inside?  Well fish and and worms, of course:

I found Swedish Fish and Gummy Worms--what could be more perfect?

I loved putting this set together, and expect my grandsons will enjoy it all when it arrives this week.
What do you think?

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