I participated in the card exchange again this year and got matched up with Ruth Lane. Of course, I put off making her card until she sent me an email telling me that my card was going out in the mail very soon.  Nothing like pressure to get things done!

I didn’t really want to make something that could only be displayed at Christmas time. But I knew I wanted red in it. I have several bins of hand dyed fabrics so I started looking there and found this piece.

Since I didn’t have a lot of time, I thought I might try fusing some shapes onto this background. I have quite a bit of fussy cut shapes that had already been fused to Wonder Under so I started playing with those.

I first tried using just the circles and it wasn’t doing much for me. Then I came across the bag of fussy cut fish and thought these would become my Christmas Fishies!

Then I thought it needed some seaweed so I found some fancy yarn that I thought might help to bring some of the blue color in.

Next, I needed to quilt it and zig zag the edges and get it put onto cardstock.

Ta-Da! Christmas Fishies all ready to be mailed off. Approximately 5″ x 6 1/2″.

Hope you all had a marvelous Christmas!

Happy New Year!

Tesi Vaara