FOLLOW.....

Me again. Over at Simon Says Stamp and Show this week the theme is a word...... Well this immediately spung to mind; strictly speaking it is a sentance but the main word for me is FOLLOW, so that's the theme!
I found this in a charity shop about a month ago and I had just not got round to doing it though I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

I guess these were very popular when people first started visiting the Maldives but the colours are rather bright aren't they?
I started by covering everything with old Wordsworth poetry, nice and messy!

At this stage I was wondering whether I should have left well alone, but too late........
Anyway I then took each fish and inked in a different colour distress ink (I used forest moss, aged mahogony, faded jeans, spiced marmalade and dusty concord) and a combination of all the colours on the main fish. I added highlights with a silver krylon leafing pen and a black marker.
I then stamped each fish with the same stampers anonymous stamp in the same colour. The end product ended up like this.....

It looks like it is taking a nose dive but I have done it to hang at an angle but this way you see the whole frame! The verse is written by hand and stamped with a little dotty texture stamp (also stampers anonymous)

A couple of close ups so you get to see more of the detail......
Enjoy your day and be blessed......