Thursday 16 February 2017

Carp Diem

My partner's step-father's great interest is koi carp- so I'm always having to come up with some twist on the koi theme.

This stamp is an old one - it has no branding on the wooden mount- and I've certainly used it before for his birthday card. I hope I've come up with a fresh design!

I heat embossed the fish in gold on black card and cut it out. I dry embossed the background and coloured it with Cosmic Shimmer gilding polish. The sentiment is Clearly Besotted.

I'd like to enter:
Try it On Tuesday  get messy - I hope it's messy enough - I had to apply the wax with my fingers , but it did wash off nicely!
Moving Along with the Times  for a man
Cards 4 Guyz no patterned paper

13 comments:

Joan said...

that's a fabulous fish Marina and I love that embossed background, i keep buying gilding waxes and forgetting to use them !

froebelsternchen said...

Just super ! Thank you for joining TioT's!

chrissie said...

This is a wonderful card Marina and the background look wonderful as water.

Thank you for entering it at Try it on Tuesday where I am sure it was a messy for you as your work is usually flawless stamping:) I find stamping messy:(

Love Chrissie xx

Ros Crawford said...

Very striking and the BG is so clever!

Craft buddy said...

This gold embossed koi is beautiful! Wow, I'm really impressed with the waves in the embossed background, it feels like I'm in the water :) Thanks for joining us at MAWTT this week x Jessie

Mrs.B said...

A lovely card Marina, it's a wonderful background for your fish.
Thanks for sharing with us at TioT
Avril

Heidi MyLittleStampingBlog said...

A very neat card! I like the background, it definitely looks like water. And the shimmer makes it fun for a birthday celebration!

AO Creations said...

Super cute!!! Thank you for joining us at Cardz 4 Guyz, good luck!!! Amy DT

Mimi said...

This is sooooo cool! That fish is so striking in gold on black... and the dimension of the background looks just exactly right! I want to touch it!haha!

Pia S said...

Oh, look at this, how beautiful! Love how you made the background, the pattern and coloring makes it look like the water is in movement, brilliant!

Greta said...

Great background for that gorgeous fish!

Wendy L said...

Wow, so wonderful, you have come up with a brilliant idea for his card, thanks for joining us at MAWTT, xxxx

Helen said...

A great card - thanks for joining us at Cardz 4 Guyz.

Helen x