Zentangle Abstract fish Birthday card....

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Zentangle Abstract fish Birthday card....

Hi Craft addicts!

Today's card was great fun to make using a stamp and some alcohol markers....



 How I made this card:-
  • These stamps from Imala (an amalgamation between Carley Duff and Toni Darroch) are large so you do need a large stamping platform to stamp them out.
  • I used Gina K Black amalagam ink to stamp it out on to some White stamping card.
  • I coloured it in using a variety of alcohol markers - Crafter's Companion Tri-blends, their normal markers, trying to give some parts a 3D effect.
  • Once I was happy with how I coloured it in, I cut it out leaving a very narrow white border around it.
  • The Blue and White diagonal striped paper is from Paper Dienamics and comes in their set of checks, spots and stripes. I cut it to fit the front of a 5" x 7" Black pearlescent card and attached it using Pinflair's Glue-it glue.
  • I then cut a strip of Black card (about 3/4") that was just the width of the background and stuck it to the middle of the card using the same glue.
  • I glued the fish to the front of the card. placing it towards the top as I didn't want the sentiment to cover it.
  • Finally, I took one of the Birthday sentiments in the old Craftwork Cards Year of Sentiments pad, edged it with a Black alcohol marker and stuck it to the bottom left hand corner with some foam pads.
And there you are a quick and easy card that you could used to say thank you - but you could add any sentiment you wish to it.

Products used in this project
  • Black 5" x 7" pearlescent card - available from Create & Craft
  • Fish zentangle stamp from Imala 
  • Birthday sentiment from Craftwork Cards Year of Sentiment pad
  • White card
  • Blue and White striped paper from Paper Dienamics pads
  • Black Card - from Lynda Chapman's World of Paper
  • Alcohol markers such as Spectrum Noir + their Tri-blends set or Hunkydory, Tonic or Ink Lily
  • Pinflair Bookbinding glue
  • Foam pads
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