And we envy no landsman his dream and sleep…

My card today features two images, Fishing Rod from Nana Vic’s Digis and Large Fish from QKR Stampede.

It’s probably pretty obvious this is heading off to a fishing enthusiast and, in keeping with my theme of the year, I’ve gone CAS on the card, perfectly suited to a male card.  To make up my card I’ve followed the current sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch.

I wasn’t sure how to make up the vertical elements until I saw the current challenge at Country View was to make your own background.  I thought I’d check out Tim Holtz’s blog for some inspiration and found it with this month’s tag and the technique remix.  For my monoprinting I’ve used a stencil that reminded me of a fishing net and for my embossed texture paste Tim’s Measured Layering Stencil as fishermen are always talking about the size of their catch.  I wasn’t sure if Distress Embossing Powder would work for the embossed texture paste technique but it did and gave a lovely rough finish.

While checking out the embossed texture paste technique I really liked the shiny black stamping Tim did.  Unfortunately I didn’t have a fish stamp in my collection and no time to order one in so I improvised by using black foil over my digi.  It’s not something that photographs well but in real life it looks lovely and shiny.  Just to make things easy for myself I decided to use the same technique on my fishing rod in multiple colours, lots of fiddly layering up of foils later and I was really pleased I’d made the effort.  I coloured both images with Tim Holtz Distress Markers.

When I foiled the fish I really liked the relief image that was left on the foil so I cut around it and placed it on some card I swiped with Distress Inks in various colours and popped it on the inside of the card.  A nice way to tie the inside to the outside and add some interest to it, not to mention use up what would otherwise be waste.

  
Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder ~ Walnut Stain

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

13@rts Stencil ~ Fly Away Numbers

Spellbinders Nestabilities Die ~ LF-110 Grand Ovals

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil ~ THS012 Measured

Inks & Paints etc

Teresa Collins Basically Essential ~ Modelling Paste

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Blueprint Sketch, Bundled Sage, Mermaid Lagoon, Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters & Tumbled Glass

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Black Soot, Blueprint Sketch, Bundled Sage, Peeled Paint, Salty Ocean & Shabby Shutters

Papers

Bazzill Fourz Cardstock ~ Rain

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ White

iCraft Deco Foil ~ Black, Ocean Blue, Opal & Silver

Papertrey Ink Stamper’s Select Cardstock ~ White

Stamps

Nana Vic’s Digis ~ Fishing Rod

QKR Stampede ~ LargeFish

Challenges

CAS(E) this Sketch ~ Sketch #158

Country View ~ Make your own Background

 Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2016 ~ February

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