Wednesday, February 15, 2012

"Fishing" You A Happy Valentines Day! For Another Challenge!

This is the Valentine I made for my husband, Drew to go along withthe challenge over at the Fantabulous Cricut Blog, "Fun with Puns."  Link up here:  http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2012/02/challenge-me-monday-98.html

An avid Bass Fisherman, I think he gets a kick out of me making fish-themed cards!  For this one, I used Wild Card for the Heart-shaped card, and Simply Charmed for the fish, and fishing rod.  I know it totally does NOT look like how a large mouth bass or small mouth bass is shaped, but, I tried to color it as such with my new water pens and ink pads as described in previous post.  He said I did a pretty good job on the coloring, so for that I am very proud! 

I used a silver gel pen to color in the the little circles on the heart and hand-wrote the sentiment. And instead of using the cut out fishing line that was part of the cuts provided with his image, I used embroiddary floss and string it through the eyelets on the fishing rod.  Tricky to do, hard not to rip the eyelets, but it worked!  :o)  I had to had something "fru-fru" because it is Valentine's Day afterall, so a little ribbon adhered with staples...  Fru-Fru, but still kind of manly, with the metal stamples.

Thank you for looking!
Mary

7 comments:

  1. Very sweet. Thanks for playing along with us at FCCB!

    Be blessed, Beckie

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  2. This is so cute! What a fun idea for a Valentine - and such a great pun!
    Thanks so much for playing along with us at Fantabulous Cricut!

    Kate
    Small Bits of Paper

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  3. Adorable--I love a great pun :) Thanks for creating with us at FCCB this week :)

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  4. Like the fishing Valentine's Day. Especially like the ribbon snippets. Thanks for entering the Fantabulous Cricut Fun With Puns challenge.
    Melissa
    "Sunshine HoneyBee"
    Guest Designer at Fantabulous Cricut

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  5. "Fru-Fru, but still kind of manly, with the metal stamples." Agreed! Yep, we have a fisher in our family and it invites all kinds of cards and sayings. Nice job here!

    Bernadet
    http://bernadetscraftblog.blogspot.com/

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  6. This is super cute! I come from a long line of fishermen. In fact, my dad, brother and ex-husband used to fish in tournaments all the time so this card speaks to my heart. No pun intended!!! ;) Thanks for joining us at FCCB! Be sure to check out our Wednesday post tomorrow. You won't want to miss it! ;)

    XO ~ Amy Jo (FCCB Coordinator)
    http://lv2scrapandfibrofacts.blogspot.com

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  7. congrats on your win over at FCCB!! Loved your cute project!
    Sherrie K
    http://sherriescraps.blogspot.com

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