When in Doubt... The Paper Shelter

Hi and I hope all is well with you.

I have a quick post today about a birthday card I made for my son who is an avid fisherman.  I found this digi image at The Paper Shelter and it's called When in Doubt Exaggerate.  I actually used the name of the image as the sentiment.  The image comes with a coloured one so I used that for the inspiration when colouring the fish.  I'm quite happy with the way this turned out.  I used the tip to tip Copic blending method and I like the little splotches of colour.  Don't you just love that fish and the snarly look on his face and by the look on the guy's face, it took quite a bit to land that big fella! 

Thanks for stopping by and have a super good week!
Copics:
Fish - BG02, BG01, BG00.  When finished, I added some splotchy dots with BG02 and then touched them up with a Copic blender pen.  The pinks were added with the tip to tip blending technique using RR11, blues with BG000, Greens with YG17,YG11 YG41. When happy with the colours, I finished the fish by lightly going over all of it with BG000.  For the sky, I rubbed Tim Holtz's Tumbled Glass distress ink, using a little cardboard cloud template I have.
Hat - E37, E35, E33, E31
Pants - B97, B95, B93, B91
Shirt - YR24, YR23, YR21
Boots & Hat Band - C10, C7, C5
Skin - E13, E11, E00, E000, R20 for the cheeks
Hair - E47, E44, E43, Y23
Ground - E37, E35, E33, E31
Water - B24, B23, B21, B00 and then added some stickles
Supplies:
Stamp & Sentiment - The Paper Shelter's When in Doubt, Exaggerate.  The sentiment is in AR Christy font
Dies - Elizabeth Craft Designs Dashing Circles
Paper - Maja Designs
Challenges:
The Paper Shelter - Birthday Cards

Are You Ready My Friend? - Christmas at Sweet Stampin'

Hope you are having a great summer and thanks for stopping by.  Also, I'd like to give a warm welcome to my new followers.
It's time for a new challenge at Christmas at Sweet Stampin' and the theme for this month is 'Oh Deer'.  You can interpret it however you want but the theme must be Christmas-sy and have something relating to a deer on it.   It's a tough one to be thinking about Christmas cards when the sun is shining and it's a very warm 30 Celsius outside but I managed to get it done.
This month, we are sponsored by Funky Kits who is generously giving away the prize of two digis to some lucky winner.

Be sure to head on over to the challenge blog to see what the rest of the gals on the team have created and here's a great chance to get a head start on your holiday cards for this year.  The only requirement to enter the challenge is to follow the theme.
Thanks for stopping by!
Supplies:
Stamp - The Paper Shelter's Are You Ready My Friend
Sentiment - Computer generated
Dies - Taylored Expressions Seeing Stars
Paper - Fancy Pants - Christmas Magic
Misc - Star Dust Stickles
Challenges:
Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - use snow or glitter
Holly Jolly - Winter Wonderland