Shaped Card Challenge!

Today Begins the 7th challenge from the Sunflowers and Dragonflies DT! This week we're challenging you to create shaped cards. Yep, that's right--no squares or rectangles allowed! We're getting really creative this week!

Feel free to create your own Shaped card and post it on the challenge post on the S&D Blog for your chance to win! Anyone can play along in the challenge and we hope you will! There are no limits on time or supplies. Of course we’d prefer that you use images by Sunflowers and Dragonflies, but feel free to use other images. However, there is a bonus if you do use a Sunflowers and Dragonflies Image, you'll receive an extra entry in the drawing for the Nestability set! So, if you have any S&D stamps it would be worth it to use them!

This weeks prize is a set of Nestabilities Labels Two!!!!

Please post a direct link to your challenge project from either your blog or an online gallery to the Sunflowers and Dragonflies Blog, so we can view it. If you upload to an online gallery, please use the keyword S&D7. Deadline is next Friday September 11th.

Here's the Fish Shaped Birthday card for Dad that I made for this challenge! It's a little awkward looking, but I think he turned out fairly cute considering I made him by hand. I have to admit, he looks alot better than the one I had envisioned in my head for this.

To make this card, I first colored the S&D Fishing Beaver image with markers. I added black letter stickers to the side of my image to spell out "Dad." I used Nesties to cut the image out & mat it. The fish card base was created by folding the dark green cardstock in half for the base and I used my circle Coluzzle to cut out a partial circle for the fish's head along the fold. Then I just used scissors to cut out the tail the same way.

I wanted to create the look of scales on the fish's tail, but I didn't have the time or patience to cut little circles out and paste them on one by one. I found that my Fiskars Treading Water Border punch worked just as well and it made it easy after I punched the border from a few colors of 12 x 12 cardstock. The fish's fins were extra cardstock that was added to the card base after the fact. I used the ribbon to cover up the cardstock seams where they were attached. I hand drew the eye with a Gel pen.


I cut the lips out of cardstock by hand and just adhered the piece to the side of the card front. His little face just makes me laugh--I had to get a close up of those fish lips. Pretty funny huh?

Stamps: Sunflowers and Dragonflies Creative Designs- Fishing Beaver
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Paper: Smooth white cardstock by Office Depot, Colored Cardstock by American Crafts
Accessories: Bic Markers, Nesties, Circle Coluzzle,Fiskars Treading Water Border Punch, Black and White Gelly Roll Pens, Plaid Ribbon by The Paper Studio, Brown Ribbon By Offray, Black Alphabet letter stickers by Pioneer.
Finished Card Size: 6.5" x 4.25"

Thanks for visiting here today! I hope you've enjoyed your stay. I appreciate you stopping by and I welcome all of your comments. If you have any please feel free to ask as well.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!


Smiles,
Jennifer

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