Make a fun birthday card for a fisherman, like this Awesome Otters Fish Birthday Card! This whimsical otter is swimming and having fun while catching a fish right in his paws! Perfect for the fisherman in your life! The best part is you can earn this Awesome Otters Stamp Set FREE during Sale-A-Bration this month and next with a $50 Stampin’ Up! purchase!

This card has just a Basic White card base with a layer of this paper that kind of suggests water in the Sunshine & Rainbows 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper, another freebie during Sale-A-Bration you could choose! The Basic White textured rectangle was in with my paper and seemed like the right size I could use on this card. It was die cut with one of the Stitched Rectangle Dies and then embossed with the Tasteful Textile Embossing Folder.

To make it look like the otter is swimming in the water in a pond, perhaps, I die cut the center of that embossed piece with the largest die in the Tasteful Labels Dies. I popped this piece up with Stampin’ Dimensionals®.

The otter is stamped with Memento Ink and colored in with Stampin’ Blends markers. I used Soft Suede on the otter with Crumb Cake for his middle. The fish was colored with a couple of different colors so make yours whatever colors you like if you know what a certain fish looks like! I also stamped and colored in the little birthday hat. The otter and his birthday hat are then cut out and popped up on Dimensionals “in the water”.

The greeting is in the stamp set and is die cut with another of the Tasteful Labels Dies. I adhered a small little bow made with the Linen Thread. On the inside of the card, I stamped a birthday greeting from another set and also stamped another otter, the one who is swimming, in the lower corner in Pool Party ink.

And to make the water sparkle a bit, I added some Iridescent Rhinestone Basic Jewels. Whatever card you make, just have fun with these Awesome Otters!

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These Awesome Otters are going to be a fun stamp set for you to stamp with! You can even earn it as a free product during Sale-A-Bration this month and next with a $50 purchase! You get three otters doing different things. like this one doing a little swimming! On my Awesome Otters Hello Card he is swimming with the foliage around the pond! And wait until you see what you can get to go with the otters!

I wanted to use the swimming otter but I didn’t have quite the right thing to look like water so I placed him in the center of this Heart & Home Doily. Then I embossed some foliage on the Basic White to look like the weeds and grass around his swimming hole!

The card base is Misty Moonlight to match the blue doily. The doilies are part of the Heart & Home Suite and come in three colors (Basic Gray, Cinnamon Cider, and Misty Moonlight) plus white on the back of all of them! It also has a layer of Crumb Cake cardstock underneath the Basic White card front.

The swimming otter in the Awesome Otters Stamp Set is just stamped on a scrap of Basic White cardstock with Memento Ink. The otter and the water are colored in with Stampin’ Blends. I couldn’t leave the background just plain white so I went for an interesting sky! I think I scribbled in a bit of Pale Papaya and then colored over lightly with Pool Party. You can play and experiment with colors you like or leave it plain! I added a double bow of Linen thread.

The Basic White cardstock is embossed with one of the Greenery Embossing Folders. Then I colored lightly over the leaves and berries with Stampin’ Blend markers. I adhered that layer to the front of the card on top of the Crumb Cake cardstock, then popped up the doily on Dimensionals. The greeting “Hello” is in the Inspired Thoughts Stamp Set and stamped with Misty Moonlight ink on a strip of Basic White. It seems like just the right size to go with the otter! Then I added two white dots of the new Classic Matte Dots on each side of the greeting.

Remember, you can get the Awesome Otters Stamp Set FREE during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase! And if you want to, you can purchase some Otter postage stamps at the post office! I ordered mine online and they came the other day! These are the Otters In Snow Stamps!

Make some Awesome Otters cards and then use an Otter Stamp on your envelope! How fun is that!

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