I used my home-made stamp positioner (a few blocks of lego) and got him stamped right up to the edge of my card and then I coloured him in with pencils. Putting him right to the edge was important for my design as I wanted the fish to be "hanging" off the edge. So I drew a pencil line down the edge of the card just inside the fish and used scissors and a craft knife to cut along it and carefully around any bits of the image that were hanging over. I added a mm of white space either side of the fishing line so it wasn't too fragile on the finished piece. You could get a similar effect with partial die cutting using the co-ordinating die if scissors aren't your thing.
I wanted to make it a birthday card so took a sentiment from MFT's Gill Friends set and after masking off the stamped image just repeat stamped it up the card to get a decorative border of sentiments.
To finish off the card I added a strip of patterned paper from the Fun Time pad from Reverse Confetti to the edge of the "inside" of the card. Hanging elements over the edge of your card is a neat trick and not something you tend to find on commercial cards so it helps people know it was handmade for them.
OK thats' all from me today - I'll be back on Sunday with some more projects.
Tara
