I have a bunch of thank you cards to make, and since many of them are for gifts my son received for his birthday, I decided to just have fun with this card. It was nice to not have to care if it was pretty or try to fit it to some one's personality/taste. Though I love doing those things, it was fun to just be "free" on this one. I don't think I have ever combined stamps from so many different companies and my handwriting even made it onto this one because I tried stamping "gift" three different times and nothing was working, so I just wrote it myself. I figured why not since I already had such a mix of things going. The sentiment is a combination of SU's Simple Birthday Thanks and TAWS' Alphabet Soup.
The little aquarium is my favorite part of the card. The jar and sand are from PTI's Friendship Jar Summer Fillers, the grass is from PTI's Daydreamer set (with a little selective inking to make it fit), and the fish are from Lawn Fawn's Critters in the Sea. Both fish stamps actually face the same direction, so I used
this technique to make a mirror image of the little fish, so he could face the other direction. I started making this card using
CASology Cue Card #49: Fish, chose my color scheme from
The Play Date Cafe's Challenge #187, and finished my card with the washi tape and tag hanging just over the side for
CAS-ual Friday's Over the Edge Challenge. It's my first time playing along at CASology and The Play Date Cafe, so it was fun to branch out that way, too. P.S. In real life, the washi tape and the "jade-ish color ink look almost exactly the same...unfortunately the ink looks more blue in the photos...yeah, that's what happens when I take photos at midnight.
Love your fresh clean design with those fun colours! Thanks so much for playing along with us at CASology this week!
ReplyDeleteLove your mason jar aquarium! It's perfect! So glad you joined in on the fun at CASology this week!
ReplyDeleteLindsey this is so cute, I love the gift of fishies in a jar. Fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing with us this week at CASology!
ReplyDeleteOh, I LOVE this little aquarium scene in a jar...so sweet! Thrilled that you joined us for the first time at CASology...we do hope you play along with us again! Your card is CAS fabulous!
ReplyDeleteOMG... this is just adorable!! love the little jar of fish! thanks so much for playing along with CASology!
ReplyDeletesuper fun card -love all of the elements you've included!
ReplyDeleteWhat an adorable card and cute sentiment!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, this is so cute! I LOVE, LOVE the fish in the jar. The multiple colors on the sentiment look awesome! The reverse stamping on the fish is perfect...I always find that so hard. Adorable card, Lindsey! Thank you for the super sweet note on my blog, too. *hugs* to you.
ReplyDeleteThe jar aquarium is sooo cute! And I love your handwriting! Thanks for joining us at CAS-ual Fridays Challenge!
ReplyDeleteawww... this is so cute! love the fish jar! such a fun card! thanks so much for joining us this week at CAS-ual Fridays Challenge!
ReplyDeleteI think you should have trouble finding sentiments more often, your handwriting looks fantastic! Way to combine different sets too. Really makes for a unique card. Love it! Thanks so much for joining the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge!
ReplyDeleteLove this! such a cute scene so perfectly stamped!
ReplyDeleteOh this card is totally cute Lindsey!
ReplyDeletebrilliant card and the colors work perfectly! i hope your son had a fun birthday :) Thanks for joining us in the Play Date Cafe!
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What a fun card and perfect for this week's color story! Thanks for playing along with us at The Play Date Cafe!
ReplyDeleteVERY fintastic Lindsey!!! Congrats on your well deserved CASual Fridays Contender too :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the VIP honors from CFC for your fun card, Lindsey!!
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