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OK here is what I made for Tim for our anniversary.
Last month I bought fishafella from Stamping Bella especially to make cards for him LOL!! I also got all the new Flair Designs Hit the Beach Papers (LOVE this stuff! It's SO fun and summery!) - and I used the water and fishy papers for this project.
Fishafella was stamped minus his fish onto watercolor paper and watercolored with Stampin' Up! re-inkers. I made fish using the SU! retired Angler set - I stamped them onto white shrink plastic, colored them with Sharpie markers, cut them out then heated them until they shrunk. I have NEVER used shrink plastic before so I have no idea if I did it right but they look fine to me! I even remembered to punch holes in them BEFORE I shrunk them down!!
The sentiment on the card is also from Stamping Bella - it just makes me giggle so I had to put it on Tim's card.
The frame is wood and I got it at Michaels some time ago (I've seen them in the wood section and at other times in the $1 bins - they keep moving them around!!) for $1.50 (so yes I bought several!). I just placed it face down on the papers, traced it out, then cut out the papers and adhered them to the frame with Mod Podge. I then sanded the edges and painted all the exposed wood with Making Memories blue paint. After the paint dried I applied a couple of coats of Mod Podge to the entire frame as it's going in Tim's office and I don't want it to get wrecked *wink*.
I used sticky strip (red liner tape) to adhere the ribbon and that was it!! I'm really happy with how they turned out (mostly b/c like I said I hadn't stamped in over a week when I started these!! They did take me quite a while to make b/c I really WAS out of my stamping groove! But I got them done right before midnight on Friday and was able to give them to him right on our anniversary!! *grin*).
