I made this for LSC173 - it's NOT hip to be square.
I went through several ideas, but I have too many cards I have made for challenges that I wouldn't use because they are not me, so I wanted to make something I could use. I thought about hats, houses, flowers. Then I decided to do a fish. When I was very small I had a clear plastic ball filled with liquid and little beads and a red fish a bit like this. After it broke I had him for years, but he probably never moved with me when I left home.
I cut a standard-sized card with the fold on the left narrow edge, and cut my fish from that. I painted the head and tail with Iridescent Gold H2Os, to give a sheen and still leave the red colour. Then, sticking with punching after the card I did for Beate's inspiration challenge this week, I punched LOADS of circles. I used 3 fancy Clairefontaine Papers of the World papers and some gold. I glued all of these down in rows. The fins were made with trimmings from the card, again painted with the gold, and fringed. The tail was also fringed. A big wobbly eye, and that's it. My DH thought I should put scales on the back too. I don't know - those fancy papers aren't so easy to punch.
Date: Friday, June 20, 2008 GMT Views: 716
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Fri, Jun 20, 2008 @ 2:33 PM
I know I will be coming back to this challenge gallery over and over for ideas and inspiration...this card is a perfect example of why! Your fish is beautiful! I know he took a lot of time to make....he has way more scales than my owl had belly feathers....but he turned out so awesome!!! Love it!!!