Sitting on the dock of the bay....with video

watching the tide roll away...? I don't remember haha
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The Monday Challenge over at Simon Says Stamp is: go fish.

Now I happen to have this Crafter's Companion rubber stamp: Popcorn the Bear and he's fishing with his little mate. I thought it to be quite fitting for the challenge, although I just checked and I can't find any Crafter's Companion stamps on SSS.

I used Talens ecoline to watercolor the image.

I stamped it on cold pressed 140lbs watercolor paper this time (usually hotpressed) and I used Versafine black onyx ink and my MISTI.

Was planning to use another sentiment at first, but wasn't quite sure where to put it, so I left it until the end.

Then I had to mask off the bear's head so I could stamp the Happy Birthday from Impression Obsession, to make it look like it's behind the bear.

I could have stamped it on the inside, was contemplating it too, but I do much prefer my sentiments on the outside and all nice and blanc paper to write on on the inside ;-).

Mounted the panel with foamtape and as it's narrower I filled the gap with washi tape on the cardbase.

Bit of Wink of Stella on the fish so the shimmer.

For more information on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, see this