If you stamp a fish . . . watercolor him!

Watercoloring is my favorite coloring medium, it's true! It's also true when I stamped fish from Under the Sea C1500, I grabbed my Blending Pen 3174 (p. 132 of the catalog) and the coordinating stamp pads and happily colored to my heart's content.

How do you do it, you say? It's so simple, really, I promise.

First, with your chosen stamp pad, lid closed, firmly squeeze, as shown here.

Next, open the stamp pad and presto, notice the ink in the white part of the lid. Plenty of watercolor for you to color your fishies!








With the blending pen, pick up some of the ink (Lagoon shown here) and begin coloring. To achieve a darker inked look of the waves, I used the ink immediately. To create shading, I used scratch paper to remove some of the ink from the marker.

To change colors, simply use the same scratch paper and color until no ink shows. This also uses up the clear fluid, so sometimes it is helpful to have several blending pens for different colors for a project or if doing more than one card. The pens are only $3.95 so buy several!

 My finished fishy card, made using Footloose paper X7151B and Seaside Wooden Shapes Z1693.

Best Fishes to you!!!!