SOS Challenge 48 - April Showers

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is April Showers. But since we are SO NICE, and our object is to use stash, we've stre-e-e-e-tched the theme to include April Showers or SNOW (think: Christmas Card Challenges). Actually, anything weather/water related will work: umbrella, seahorses, scuba, fishes, seascapes, ponds, oceans, snowflakes, snowfall, snowmen, rainy days, raincoats, rubber boots, rain clouds, clouds, rainbows, ducks (yep, ducks!) Now you have NO EXCUSE not to play!

I went with the fish option, if only to make myself open and use my Hero Arts Oceans of Joy fish set. Here's my card, then I'll explain:

This was the fourth or fifth attempt, and I'm actually glad I kept trying. :) The fish and grass were heat-embossed with black EP, then colored with Gelatos:

Then I cut them out. I did. Here's the fish up close and personal:

 I used three colors of Gelatos, then rubbed them with my finger to blend them.

For the grass, I used two colors of blue/green and also blended them:

The background of the card is a funky minty green color of card stock from my scrap box, and it's sprayed with my blue Ranger Distress Pearl mist. I love how it came out! There is a glob of pearl stuff under the fish, but well pretend it isn't p00p, k?

Also, I originally had that white twine wrapped around the card and under the fish, but he looked strung-up, and we can't have that, so I moved it over to the diagonal.

Yep, I'm pretty pleased with how this came out. :)

Okay, now it's YOUR turn. Go into your s-crap room and dig out something water-related (frozen water or the liquid type), make a card, then link us up over at Shopping Our Stash so we can see what you've made!

Thanks for stopping by!