World Card Making Day: Slimline Celebrations - Fishy Greetings!

Happy World Card Making Day!  Close To My Heart has really outdone themselves with the latest special in honor of us stampers!  Ever since I saw the Slimline Celebration, the ideas have been flowing, so I'm hoping to do at least a couple of posts with these cute stamp sets, dies, and sentiments.  Even if you're not into the slimline style cards, this special has something for everyone!

My immediate thought when I saw the circle die was that I wanted to do a rainbow die cut inlay.  The fish images in the Fishy Greetings stamp set seemed perfect for doing rainbow colors.  I also thought the Dreamy Holographic Paper would perfectly simulate bubbles.

To make this card, I first did a rough measure of scraps of card stock for each section of the Circle Cluster Thin Cuts using the following colors:  Wild Berry (color of the year), Papaya (new for 2021), Shortbread (new for 2021), Green Apple, Bluebird, and Grape.  I took each of the scraps and cut out the sections from the die, carefully putting all the pieces, including the tiny "intersectional" pieces in a bowl.  I then used the whole die to cut out a piece of Dreamy Holographic Paper.

 

For the card base, I cut a 7" x 8" piece of White Daisy cardstock, scored it in half at 3.5" to make a 3.5" x 8" card base.  After adhering the holographic die cut to the card base, I inlaid the cut scraps into the holographic circle die cut.

 

Next I used a Misti to stamp the various fish as shown onto White Daisy cardstock using Intense Black ink.  Using Spectrum Noir Tri-Blend markers, I colored the fish to coordinate with the colors of card stock.  I then placed the stamped fish back into the Misti and heat embossed with VersaFine Jet Black ink and Ranger Clear Super Fine Embossing Powder.  Using the individual fish dies, I cut out each of the fish, noting the that trio of fish were fussy cut since there was not a die available for that stamp.

 

To finish the card, I used the Misti to stamp the "Swimming by to say..." sentiment on the card front.  Then I adhered each of the die cut fish onto the card base where they coordinated with the inlaid color card stock.  Finally I randomly adhered Lagoon Loose Gems around the card base.

I love how the holographic paper, embossed fish, and loose gems make this card shine!

 

Note that the Slimline Celebration special ends is only available through October 31, 2021, so get it before it's gone!