Crafty Sentiments Summer Of Fun Blog Hop & Ribbons & Bows Challenge.

Good morning all, have you been enjoying this week's previews of the Crafty Sentiments Summer Of Fun New Release? well the wait is over the stamps go on sale today but before that we have a blog hop for you.

You can be in with a chance of winning the 1 of the 4 New Main Summer of Fun Character stamps from us. They are amazing. Four of you will receive 1 each of the stamps. So you have a great chance of winning. 


If you arrived here from Jac's blog you are on the right track however if you just stumbled across my blog or you regularly pop in and want to start at the beginning of the blog hop please go HERE.

The Rules are simple. 

1 Post the Summer of Fun Banner on your sidebar with a Link to the Crafty Sentiments Store.

2. Comment on the Design Teams Cards Previewing the images for Thursday 25 August.

You have until Monday 29th 7pm GMT to complete the hop

 I decided as soon as I saw the image of Billy 'Lets Swim' that I was going to make a fish bowl, I had seen something similar on Tereesa's Up Late 2 Create blog some time ago and had been wanting to make one ever since and this seemed the perfect time. I also used some of the fish from the accessory set.

Today is also the start of this week's challenge which is 'Ribbons & Bows', now this wasn't easy to incorporate in my fish bowl and I made it even harder on myself by forgetting to add them until over half of the bowl had been put together. They are not the best and you probably can't see them that well but what I did was twist some seam binding and add it to make some of the reeds. If you click on the photo's to make them bigger you can see the ribbon more easily. I had to use brads at the top to hold it together temporarily as the large gromlets I ordered didn't arrive in time.

The fish bowl itself was cut out of acetate on my Cricut using the Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridge at 8.5" x 10" to give you an idea of the size. I then added various sea life from Pack Your Bags Cartridge. I embossed most of the cuts using various folders and added some faces to my cuts with the Peachy Keen Funshine Faces set. All of the cuts and images are attached with very fine fishing line, they then dangle and swing freely in the bowl. I used my Cri-Kit glitter pens in my Cricut to draw all the pieces before adding them as die cuts as they then look like shadows but unfortunately the camera hasn't picked this up. The bubbles all had glossy accents added to them.

My 4 year old god son came in just as I had finished this and asked what the little boy's name was, I told him Billy and he promptly informed me that Billy will be dead soon because he hasn't got a snorkel or regulator!! I guess that is what happens when your dad and uncle are Scuba Diving Instructor's lol. Way too old for his little years!!

This looks so much better in real life as it all moves.

I added this photo of a side angle to show how it goes together but it is not very clear, the jelly fish/octopus was very pleased to have another photo taken lol.

Supplies:-

Acetate - Local Craft Store

Cardstock - Bazzill & American Crafts

Image - Crafty Sentiments Billy 'Lets Swim' & Accessory Stamps

Medium - Promarkers

Peachy Keen PK-944 Funshine Face Parts

Brads - Papermania

Seam Binding Ribbon - Crafty Ribbons

Glossy Accents - Ranger

Embossing - Cuttlebug 'D'vine Swirls, Houndstooth, Swiss Dots, Tiny Bubbles)

Cricut - Everyday Paper Dolls & Pack Your Bags

Challenges I would like to enter this into:-

 As this is not a card I was not sure on a couple of challenges, if it is not allowed I apologise and please just delete my entry. Thanks

Bitten By The Bug 2 - Use A Stamp With Cricut Cuts

By The Cute & Girly - The Sea

Ooh La La - No Backing Paper 

Tuesday Throwdown - Dimension & Texture

Papertake Weekly - Dies To Die For

Passion For Promarkers - No Patterned Papers

The Paper Shelter - Die Cuts & Punches

Scapalicious USA - Anything But A Card

Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes

Peachy Keen Face It - Use Animals

One Stop Crafts - Bold & Bright

Ok that is all from me and thanks for staying with me through this rather long post. You are now off to visit the wonderful Rebekah to see what she created for you but just in case you get lost, have problems with links or just want to start at the beginning here is the complete list of who is playing along.

Axa

Dora

Hazel

Heather

Jan

Jac

Kim

Rebekah

Shell

Tanya