A Fishy Birthday...

We have a family friend whose birthday is on Saturday - he turns 9! YAY!!!! I wanted to make something special for him - so I made him a Fishy Friends Bank Book! I first saw these on Nichole Heady's Blog "Capture the Moment" and thought they were brilliant -here's the link.

Once I popped up the fish, I wanted to pop up the fin. It didn't look right with the whole fin popped, so I attached one side with double stick tape and adheared a pop dot on the outside edge (does that make sense?) I think that you can see that in the above photo.

I added some Diamond Stickles on some of the scales and dots with my white gel pen on some of the fins and the face. Instead of making a cover like Nichole did, I just decorated a 4 x 4 envelope (you can see that in the above picture.)

The Fishy Friends stamp set (by Stampin' Up) is one of my favorite sets. It is so much fun to color!!!! Thanks for looking!!!