It seems like the at the beginning of the year we have a lot of masculine birthdays in our family. For my card this time, I used Fishing Squidgy from Stamping Bella for another nephew’s card. He loves to fish so I thought this image would be perfect.

After stamping the image in Memento Tuxedo Black ink, I colored the image with my Copic markers. I don’t have a die for this image, so I “fussy cut” the image out. I had another shaving cream background that I had created and thought it would make a great background for the image.

I wanted to create a scene so I cut a small strip of paper and used the Wooden Planks embossing folder from Simon Says Stamp to create a dock for my fisherman to stand on. I popped the fisherman up on the dock using some foam tape. I thought it needed a little something more so I used an image from Time to Coast from Gina K to finish off my scene. I stamped that image using Rich Cocoa Memento ink and added some additional coloring with some Copic markers and brown colored pencils. My sentiment is from another Gina K stamp set, Birthday Blessings. I heat embossed it using some Black VersaFine ink and clear embossing powder.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Crafting!

Supplies used:

Stamping Bella: Fishing Squidgy

Simon Says Stamp: Memento Tuxedo Black; Memento Rich Cocoa; Wooden Planks embossing folder

Gina K: Master Layouts 1; Time to Coast stamp set; Birthday Blessings stamp set; Turquois Sea re-inker; Blue Raspberry re-inker

Copics: E04, E11, E01, E000, YR31, YR21, YR23, YR0000, E79, E57, E35, G12, G02, G05, BV13, BV11, BG96, BG75, BG72, BG70, C4, C3, C00, W2, W00