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I need an idea for a background for a "fishy" card. I don't have anything resembling a bubble stamp but want the background to look like water or bubbles. Any suggestions? Thanks!!!:confused:
Do you have any set that has a circle stamp in it? The rock and roll technique can make almost any solid circle look like a bubble. I have also used a pencil eraser for small bubbles, and bottle lids too.
Do you have Fun With Shapes? I used the three circles and stamped them randomly on the background (but a lot of them really close together) of a card I made to use with Fishy Friends.
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Use a piece of bubble wrap, cut it a bit bigger than your area you want to stamp, lay it on a flat hard work surface, rub the ink pad on top of it, place paper on top, cover with a scrap paper and rub with a pencil or bone folder or something, then lift the paper off without smearing. Very cute and cheap too!
Another neat water simulation that someone has done on the site is tearing cardstock to look like waves - the cs is done in shades of blue --- ohhhh! Wouldn't Carribean Blue look great done this way?! The sample I remember had the fish leaping in back of a wave so they appeared to be swimming in the water...very fun!
Another neat water simulation that someone has done on the site is tearing cardstock to look like waves - the cs is done in shades of blue --- ohhhh! Wouldn't Carribean Blue look great done this way?! The sample I remember had the fish leaping in back of a wave so they appeared to be swimming in the water...very fun!
OOOHHHH!!!
Carribean Blue and Not Quite Navy would be soooo coool together, torn into waves.
I used one of the stamps from "just Vine"..heehee...I just made sure to stamp it in such a way that the bubbles were to spread out so systematically...LOL
I went through my kitchen looking for various sized circles, bottle lids, medicine lids, jars, glasses, and then inked them with versamark and then brushed blues and purples from the pastels over the circles, then I brushed a blue chalk over the rest of the background. It got a little frustrating on some of the little plastic lids, so I finally used my versamark pen to make circles that were tiny.
washers. rubber washers of different sizes glued to an old wood block or other sturdy, flat thing. That is what I use for various circles with no centers.
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If you look in my gallery, I have a card in there where I did my water using scalloped scissors. I am not sure how your fishies would work with doing your background like mine, but you might look and see. After I glued it down, I sort of bent it forward so that it would look like rippling water. It is named Stormy Weather or something like that.
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