Animal Antics Creation #1

I wanted to start exploring my Cricut cartridges a little more and since I used "Animal Antics" for my last design team project with The Perfect Sentiment, I thought it would be the perfect cartridge with which to start.

 

Here is the first project I created with "Animal Antics."

The card is 5 1/2"x4 1/4."  I used a pre-made card base from DCWV.  I cut some sand patterned cardstock at 5 1/8"x3 7/8."  The sand cardstock came from The Tahiti Beach Stack by DCWV.  I used "Wild Card 2" and Cricut Craft Room to cut the waves.  I turned off the aspect ratio and sized the waves at 5"x2."  The paper I used for the waves came from a stack by Debbie Mumm, called Travel.  I then added some dark blue pearls to the corners.

The fish is from "Animal Antics."  It was cut at 2 1/2."  I used some eyes from the Peachy Keen stamp of the month October 2012 kit.  I used a white gel pen to color them in, then covered the eye mask with diamond glaze for a shiny look.  I adhered the fish to the card with foam tape.  The sentiment is from Scrappy Moms Stamps, the Little Critters set.

I also finished the inside of the card.  I cut some dark teal shimmery cardstock at 5"x3 3/4."  I then cut more of the sand cardstock at 4 3/4"x3 1/2."  I added another layer of the dark teal cardstock, cut at 3 1/4"x2 1/2."  I used my computer to generate the sentiment.  The fonts are Harrington and Bauhaus 93.  I trimmed the white cardstock at 3"x2 1/4" and adhered it down.

 

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

365 Cards: "Day 146" - sketch

BBTB2: zoo animals (I might be stretching it a bit with a fish, but every zoo I have been to has fish)

Peachy Keen: anything goes