'Jar of Love' - Throw Kindness Around Like .... FISHES!?!

Happy Birthday!

This special Blog post has been scheduled just for today....
You see, I sent one of these cute cards to a sweet friend for their BIRTHDAY!!!!

AND

today is that day!! 

This person is also into card creating, like myself. 

But boy is this person talented! 

Soooooo, I wanted something I wouldn't be ashamed to send....

Something original, funny, cute and artistic!

BIG ask!

 lol

I had been seeing so many gorgeous 'Jar of Love' cards...I have even made a couple myself (yet to be blogged)

But they all seemed very similar....flowers in a jar, hearts in the jar,even a fish in a jar
 Another creator Stephanie Fischer had just made a card called 'Ahoy There' (no jars anywhere) BUT it gave me an idea :)

I thought,  'Lets tip the jar over a little so it's almost spilling it's contents but not quite!
And have fishies inside, Jumping OUT!'

I think to myself....WOW!, yes that sounds original & allowed myself a little WHOOP of joy.

 AND got to creating...

Here is it.....

Happy Birthday ! 

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#Jaroflove #Happybirthday #frommetoyou #sentwithlove #KOCreationscards

The little one on the right is my first effort. Then came version 2 .... not alot different but made a little larger, just so I could add some little extra detail & not overwhelm the card.

You are probably wondering what I did for the inside??? Can you see inside a little :) 

Ok I will stop teasing!

 hahahaa

Here is an open pic of the card.

I couldn't let the poor little fishies jump, not without having somewhere safe for them to land!

LOL

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I do hope she liked it...

As I scheduled this post on Sunday (19/6) and haven't as yet posted the card to her!!!

Gosh I am excited! hehehe

Anywho...

How I made my 'Jar of Love' cards:

• I used Peek-a-boo Peach  A4 card stock & in colour backgrounds DSP. 
• Thick Whisper White was used as my card base and for the fronts.
• I used the 'Jar of Love' stamp set for the jars, stamped onto an acetate window sheet in Stazon Jet Black. 
• The sentiment is a mixture of two from the same Jar of Love set and has been stapled together then attached using dimensionals.
• I cut both jar outlines using Everyday Jars Framelits.
• I coloured using my aqua painters and my Stampin' Write marker Island Indigo scribbled onto a stampin' block...I mixed  the blue at times with Craft Stampin Ink whisper White
• For the inside I stamped the small jar in Stazon jet black as I didn't want it to bleed or run when painting my flowing water.
• I stamped the fish in Peek-a-boo Peach and colored very carefully around it.
• The flowers have been stamped in Peeka-boo-Peach while the leaves were stamped with Emerald Envy.
• I added the smaller Rhinestones to the smaller flowers on one card.
• I used the foam adhesive strips to frame up the fish jar (the one sent for the birthday) as it is a shaker card. I used it to raise the front on the smaller card. I used Stampin' Dimensionals under some flowers, to add more depth.

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