Hero Arts | Funny Puffer Fish Cards – Let’s Float Away Together. Summer Release Blog Hop + Giveaway
Hello everyone and thank you so much for stopping by to help celebrate Hero Arts 2017 Summer Catalog Release! I’ll share more about this release, blog hop and giveaway below.
New catalog features a number of fantastic stamp sets (including some gorgeous Color Layering stamps!). I’ve had the pleasure of working with many of them prior to release as I created several cards for the catalog (and I’ll be sure to share them here over the next few weeks). The Puffer Fish stamp set, however, ended up being a pleasant surprise for me as I somehow overlooked it in the new release. I was immediately drawn to it and decided to use it to create a set of hilarious cards. If you know me, you know I love to make a silly card that is sure to put a smile on the face of its recipient. And the cards I am sharing today are (hopefully) no exception!
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CARDS DETAILS
I started working on this project by looking up puffer fish on Pinterest. I’m a bit ashamed to say I knew nothing about puffer fish (I didn’t even know there was this kind of fish) so I was both surprised and amazed! I quickly came up with a few simple scenes for these projects. I’ll explain the “You’re Swell” card in detail as it is the most complex of three. For my scene I went with two funny looking fish floating underwater along with other smaller fish.
Using Hero Arts Intense Black ink I stamped both fish onto a piece of white cardstock, cut out using coordinating dies (I used my Platinum 6 die cutting machine) and colored using Copics. Once again I used my go-to Copic colors (I’ve recently gotten some new markers and I need to update/expand my chart) and I used RV14, RV13, RV11 and R27 for the pink fish and Y19, Y15, Y11 and YR14 for the yellow fish. I also added a green fish to my two other projects and I used YG00, YG03 and YG17 for coloring.
I used a small waves stamp from the Puffer Fish set and stamped a double border – this created a horizon line for my card and separated the water from the sky. I decided to keep the sky white and color the water only. Following the same coloring method I used for this card I colored water using B00 marker. You’ll notice that I just roughly sketched the color and didn’t take any time to create neatly and evenly colored surface.
I wanted to add some additional elements to underwater area so I stamped partial waves and added air bubbles. To add dimension to the latter I went with Nuvo Drops in Sea Breeze. I had to add googly eyes to my fish to make them even funnier so I used new self-adhesive googly eyes from Hero Arts. I used the smaller size, they are a bit oversized, but still are spot on for this project.
For my other cards I added balloon strings to my fish to make them look like birthday balloons and a card to make it appear as if it was a hot air balloon!
Here are some additional photos (click image to view larger):
HOP ALONG WITH US!
Join us for an inspiration filled blog hop! You can start at the beginning at Hero Arts Blog or continue to Lydia Fiedler’s blog, she is the next stop.
GIVEAWAY!
Hero Arts is giving away three $25 shopping sprees, drawn from comments left across all blogs in the hop. Please comment by Wednesday, 5/24 at 11:59pm PT. Hero Arts will announce the winners the following week.
SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!
 Hero Arts Clear Stamps I’m a Puffer for You Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Frame Cuts Puffer Die Set Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts I’m a Puffer for You Clear Stamp and Die Combo Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Self-adhesive Googly Eyes Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Ink Pad Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Neenah 80LB Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS | HA |
 Copic Sketch Marker Y11 Pale Yellow Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker Y15 Cadmium Yellow Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker Y19 Napoli Yellow Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker YR14 Caramel Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker RV11 Pink Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker RV13 Tender Pink Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker RV14 Begonia Pink Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker R27 Cadmium Red Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker B00 Frost Blue Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker YG00 Mimosa Yellow Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker YG03 Yellow Green Shop at: SSS |
 Copic Sketch Marker YG17 Grass Green Bold Shop at: SSS |
 Scrapbook Adhesives Black Foam Tape Shop at: SSS |
 Be Creative Tape 3mm Sookwang Shop at: SSS |
 Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Sea Breeze Nuvo Jewel Drops Shop at: SSS |
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Cyndi Morris
May 17, 2017Those puffer fish are too cute! Beautiful coloring.
Heidi Stamps!
May 17, 2017Those fish are amazing and fun in those colors. Thanks for sharing!
Marianne
May 17, 2017Fun fish and sentiments.
Debbie P
May 17, 2017Love your cards,they are so cute. Great job. Thank you for sharing with us.
Danielle Agland
May 17, 2017Mmmmmm, another ocean stamp set to get
Terry Simmons
May 17, 2017These puffer fish are so adorable!
Jeanne Beam
May 17, 2017Your card is so cute. Love the fish. Thanks for sharing…
Barbara McDonald
May 17, 2017Nothing cuter than puffer fish. Thanks for sharing the very funny cards.
barbcccc
May 17, 2017Those puffer fishes make me smile!
paula riddle
May 17, 2017Such FUN cards Yana!!
Jeannine
May 17, 2017Such cute and fun cards – thanks for sharing
Cynthia Cole
May 17, 2017Love your puffer fish cards! This is my favorite stamp set from the new catalog.
Cathy Van Ry
May 17, 2017I love these cards. Thank you so much for sharing.
Golda
May 17, 2017Love these puffer fish and how you used them.
Katy
May 17, 2017Those are the cutest puffy fish! I love them and they are so colorful. A great release.
Ang
May 17, 2017Your puffer fish cards are super cute! Love them!
ssonnier2015
May 17, 2017OMG SOOO cute
Billie A
May 17, 2017These cards are soooooo cute. So creative and fun. Great fun colors.
Daria Z.
May 17, 2017Love these adorable cards! The googlie eyes are just perfect.
Deneen Cook
May 17, 2017Oh my gosh I love the puffer fish!!! Great cards once again.
Diane Brown
May 17, 2017Once again you have made a selection of the cutest cards that are so much fun. Love them.
Di.
Louise
May 17, 2017The puffer fish are really cute!
Janice
May 17, 2017The puffer fish are so much fun! Love the googly eyes.
Pennie Artz-Glasser
May 17, 2017Yana, This card is adorable, as always!
Gabriella B
May 17, 2017Your coloring looks beautiful
Kathie S
May 17, 2017So cute and colorful! Happy cards!!
escardsncrafts
May 17, 2017Beyond fun!!! I’ve got to have this puffer set!
Lindarub
May 17, 2017What fun cards.
Ellen Cooper
May 17, 2017Love, love, LOVE the puffer fish! They are just too cute 🙂
Barbara Green
May 17, 2017What awesomely cute cards. Love them.
Isabel Z
May 17, 2017Love what you created; you are so talented.
Cindy C.
May 17, 2017Your fun and colorful cards made me smile!! Thanks for sharing.
Barbara J
May 17, 2017I love your puffer fish. This is a wonderful release, thanks for the inspiration!
Diane B
May 17, 2017LOL. Love the puffer fish. Very colourful and fun cards. What a great release.
DC
May 17, 2017These puffer fish with the googly eyes are absolutely adorable!
Miriam Prantner
May 17, 2017So fun! I love your unexpected uses for those fish, too cute!
barbara lassiter
May 17, 2017These just have me grinning all over the place. They are so clever, colorful and cute! 🙂
Nora
May 17, 2017These are adorable! Love the puffer fish!
Christi Conley
May 17, 2017Soo fun!! Love your coloring & the googly eyes are so cute!
Kleri F
May 17, 2017Oh…fabulous cards…I hadn’t noticed this set…it’s sooo cute!Thank you for the inspiration
Lindar C
May 17, 2017Puffer fish are fascinating, and I love the google eyes you added to yours.
Natalie Godfrey
May 17, 2017OMG! What awesome cards you made. Great job they are so adorable. I especially love the eyes!!
Dawn Jones
May 17, 2017These puffer fish are so cute and I love the googly eyes.
Michelle Hackett
May 17, 2017Oh my gosh!!!! Those are ADORABLE!!! They made me smile. Then I showed them to my husband, and he confirmed my reaction.
Carol K
May 17, 2017your puffer fish cards are totally adorable. . . so fun!
Susan R Kk
May 17, 2017Love the fun puffer fish cards – they make my heart smile. Great colors and ideas – thanks for sharing.
Heather Lynn
May 17, 2017Love your puffer fish cards, especially the googly eyes. Thanks for sharing!
arlenevita
May 17, 2017Cute!!!
Kris Boydstun
May 17, 2017These are such cute cards!
Rebecca Ednie
May 17, 2017LOL! So adorable!!