Wedding Fishes

Wedding Fishes - Front

Made this card for my high school best friend, Teresa Lau and his partner, Eric Chu whose are having the wedding dinner reception tonight. I am so happy that she finally found someone she willing to tie the knot with!

MFT Wednesday Stamp Club Challenge #104 (MFTWSC104)

I adopt the sketch from MFT Wednesday Stamp Club Challenge #104 (MFTWSC104) sketch/challenge as shown above for this card. The Alley Way Stamps (TAWS) BE Inspired Challenge #18 photo (as shown below) has prompted me to use their freebie fish to make a wedding wishes card mostly because of the red cozy bed and presents. Since my best friend wedding reception is in December and after Christmas, I just cannot shake of the idea of wedding wishes card once I saw the photo!

The Alley Way Stamps (TAWS) BE Inspired Challenge #18

Close-up : The male and female fish

The mirror fish and the original fish are printed on a white card stock and trimmed accordingly. The mirror fish whose is the male fish is colored with orange shaded Copic marker while the original fish whose is the female fish is colored using pink shaded Copic markers. The background is distressed with blue ink to create the water effect. Blue shaded Copic marker is used to highlight the lining of the fishes.

Close-up : Sentiment

Pattern paper with 'double happiness' in Chinese character, '喜喜' and Chinese related images is used as the overlay of the background as shown in the sketch. The round tab punch is used to decorate the upper left corner of the pattern paper. The sentiment is stamped on the gold round tab with red ink. Then, the pattern paper is attached onto a red square card base.

Close-up : The hearts bubbles

The colored fishes is attached onto the patter paper as in the sketch. Some touch-up are added to the fishes such as the hat for the male fish and ribbon for the female fish. Two (2) lines of white pearl hearts are attached to the fishes like they are blowing out bubbles. A big red gem heart is attached to the top of the white pearl hearts to represent two-in-one. The same red gem heart also attached to the sentiment. I thought of make-up for the female fish but the ribbon make it quite impossible. So, I settle to add a googly eye for each of the fish and some silver lining to both of the eyes to make it more interesting.

Close-up : Silver lining on the eyes

Wedding Fishes - Inside

Inside the card, a pink inlay is attached with punched heart design border on the right.

Dimension : 13.97cm x 13.97cm or 5.5" x 5.5"

Type : Horizontal fold

Inlay : Yes with punched border

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This card is entering the challenge(s) organized by :

1) MFT Wednesday Stamp Club Challenge #104 (MFTWSC104) (ending 01 January 2013)

2) Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes (ending 02 January 2013)

3) Charisma Cardz Challenges - Challenge #51 - Anything Goes (ending 02 January 2013)

4) Party Time Tuesdays (PTT) Challenge - PTT100 - Anything Goes (ending 02 January 2013)

5) The Alley Way Stamps (TAWS) BE Inspired Challenge #18 (ending 03 January 2013)

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