Birthday Fishes for Polkadoodles

Hello peeps, hope you're all well.

Remember my mouse card with the holey cheese? Well today I want to show you the other card that I made with the red bubbles paper from the Little Kingdom CD from Polkadoodles.

So this is the paper after I've cut all the holes out with my Craft Robo. It's just begging to have things popping in and out of the holes, don't you think?

I'm thinking fish because it looks a bit like coral. So I had another look around the CD and, lo and behold, one of the shapes looks like a fish. I printed some off in several different sizes and coloured them in with Graph'It markers 2105 and 2120.

I cut down the 'coral' a bit to give it a more natural shape and then backed it onto some red card. I only glued around the outside at first so that I could slot the fish in easily.

Next I covered a 7x7 card with the pale aqua version of the bubbles paper and glued my coral structure on top. The seaweed is cut from a couple of the green papers on the CD using one of the 'Florist Friend' dies from Sheena Douglass.  To make the fish look more fishy I've just drawn some eyes in with a black fineliner pen and drawn '3's for the fins. Easy peasy :D

Now for the greeting. Since 'fish' sounds like 'wish' I was compelled to go for another pun. There is a lovely 'Sending Birthday Wishes' sentiment on the CD and I pulled it into Craft Artist and used the eraser to remove the 'W' before printing it out. It's all ready for an alphabet die-cut now :D

One last little touch was adding the waste circles (left over from cutting out the 'coral') as bubbles. I just drew little reflections on to make them look more realistic.

And here is the finished card:-

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Dream Valley Challenges #130 - All Creatures Great and Small
Aud Sentiments Challenge #154 Animals + A Sentiment
Send a Smile for Kids Animal cards
Crafty Sentiment Designs - Birthday
Oddball Art Stamps  Birthday
Sweet Stampin Water 
 Inky Chicks #66 - IT'S BIRTHDAY TIME
Julia Spiri Challenge #17 Anything Goes with an optional twist of For a Child  

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x