Birthday fishes

Hello Everyone,

Happy Saturday! Today I am sharing a quick card with you that I made this morning for a friend's birthday. I finally got to play a bit more with my Mama Elephant Cosmic Stars stamp set. There is a big order of ME stamps on its way to me (YAY!), and to celebrate my happiness, I decided to use the (currently) only ME set I have :-)

I went a bit mad with different techniques on this card - nothing complex, however, so if you want to make something similar - I don't think you'd have any problems with it!

The "fishes" part is heat embossed in gold (I used the Stampendous embossing powder), the background behind the fish was made using a waterbrush and some Distress Inks. I sprinkled some water on top of the distress inks, to get a bit of a "bubble" effect. The fish were fussy cut from orange cardstock - the same one I used for the base of the card - and they got a bit of a Wink of Stella treatment. A few sequins added in the corners and voila! 

Hope you like it! I have a few more ideas on similar "fishy" birthday cards, so stay tuned!

 I really like the "bubble" effect - aren't Distress Inks just great!?

You can see the glitter from the Wink of Stella here.

Subtle but really nice!

I am entering the card into the following challenges:
QKR - Swimming
Inky Impressions - No design paper
Inky Chicks - Happy Birthday
Moving along with the times - Colour challenge
Mama Elephant - Inspired by photo: 

I fish you a lovely weekend! ;-)

M.