When my sons were little we would go to the local fireman’s field days every summer.  It was just a small carnival with a couple of kid rides, normal carnival food (candy apples being my favorite) and some games where you could win things.  They always had the throw a pingpong ball into a fish bowl and win a fish.  We always came home with at least one.  Of course, the usually died within a few months which was always a traumatic thing.  The other thing is, my kids would always name the fish George after George Bush (the father).  I have no idea why.

When I saw Seascape in the 2021/2022 Stampin’ Up!® Annual Catalog it went right on my list.  I love flowers but it is also nice to get other images so I thought this was a good one to add to my collection.  You can purchase the coordinating dies called Sea Life in a Bundle and save 10%.

To make this card, I first cut out George (the Goldfish) in Pumpkin Pie card stock.  Then I cut out the Coastal Cabana fish.  I took a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock and stamped it  using Crumb Cake ink with the dotted stamp which I figured was supposed to be sand or something and cut that out using one of the Basic Borders dies.  The die is supposed to be clouds (I think) but I thought it would work for the bottom of the lake.  I stamped the reeds using Granny Apple Green ink and the little fish in Daffodil Delight.  The sentiment is from the stamp set called Sweet As A Peach.  It is one long stamp but it was too long for the card so I cut it in half.

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