Sardines à l'huile

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This month's theme is: Anything Goes

Our challenge blog is all about little things—more specifically, little cards.

Such as ATCs,  ATC coins, tags, Memorydex cards, 

Mini Moo cards, bookmarks, inchies, etc.

We hope that the variety of card styles and sizes 

will give you plenty of room to create something that suits your personal taste.

Today, I’m sharing an ATC shaped like a can of sardines in oil. 

I love sardines in oil, and since I’ve seen several ATC's like this on Pinterest over the past few days, I thought, “Why not?”

I started by rounding the corners of a black ATC background, then glued a smaller, offset card onto it, which I colored with Cracked Olive and Speckled Egg (Distress Oxide) inks.  This gives the impression of a can of sardines in oil.

I glued on the stamped and cut-out fish, which I had brushed with Speckled Egg, Salty Ocean, and Chipped Sapphire (Distress Oxide). I cut off their tails and inserted them between the fish heads to form the opposite row.

To make the lid, I stenciled waves using cutouts. I stamped swirls, a fish, and the word “SARDINES.” -- “A L’HUILE” is handwritten.

I then rolled up the lid, just like on a real can of sardines, and glued it on. I’m pretty happy with the result. 

Linked up with:

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Fish/Sea Creatures

FarmQuest Grocery - Anything Food or Drink Goes

Paper Rocks Scissors - Anything Goes using Paper and/or Scissors (the fish are cut out with scissors)

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

Tag-along (and ATC's) - Anything Goes

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

Crafter's Cafe - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Fish (Stampin'Up); Swirls and small fish (Pinkpaislee); A L'HUILE (handwritten); SARDINES (Alphabet stamps (AVEC));

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Speckled Egg, Cracked Olive, Salty Ocean, Chipped Sapphire and Fired Brick (Distress Oxide; 

Dies: Waves (AVEC);