Challenge: #hipforsummer, final week

This is the final week for the Tim Holtz/Sizzix "Get Hip for Summer" promotion and I wanted to make a summery card for it.

I started by stamping three images of the Hipster Bird and one of the Hipster Ostrich as well as a fish skeleton from the Crazy Cat set. I die-cut the images with the coordinating Sizzix dies and watercolored with Distress Markers:

You may notice that the "whole body" die cut of the bird was blank --- I used that to create a goatee and a hoodie for the bird.

I took the eyeglasses, colored them in with Black Soot Distress Marker , added some Versamark ink and black embossing powder and heat embossed them for some shine:

I could now assemble my Hipster Bird, adding get Ostrich hat to his newlyweds cropped "hairdo"!:

Now for a background. This was a multi-step process, with the first being a creating of a river using two different layering stencils and three colors of Distress Oxides on Neena white cardstock, liberally misted with water:

After trimming this "river", I added blue sky and green grass using scrap card stock...

And then layered the piece on glimmery green card and then on a kraft card:

Now that I had a base for my Hipster, I needed a reason for him to be there. Clearly, he wanted to fish so I had to create a fishing pole and some fish...

The fishing pole was scrap kraft cardstock, tented with Inktense pencils while ether fish were Neena white cardstock, colored with Distress Markers and a silver pen.

Now for assembly. I attached the bird with foam dots, added a string and the Crazy Cat fish wot the pole and attached it to the bird and the background, stamped the word "CRAY" in Archival Ink and finally arranged my fish, a clippings sticker and some rub-ons for a finished card:

As you can see, there are abundant fish in my river but the Hipster Bird had problems actually catching one. I suspect the little skeletal fish is what is left of his bait after the larger fish finished nibbled at his hook! 

Products used in the making of this card were:

• Stamps: Stampers Anonymous “Hipster” (CMS288) and “Crazy Cats” (CMS280)
• Dies: Sizzix Thinlits “Hipster Bird” (662246), “Hipster Ostrich” (662250) and “Crazy Cats” (661209)
• Stencils: Stampers Anonymous Layering Stencils “Feather” (THS079) and “Splash” (THS080)
• Inks: Archival “Jet Black”; Versamark; Distress Markers “Fossilized Amber”, “Broken China”, “Spicecd Marmalade”, “Back Soot”, “Mustard Seed”, “Squeezed Lemonade”, “Pumice Stone” and “Wild Honey”; Distress Oxide Inks “Broken China”, “Faded Jeans”, “Salty Ocean” and “Cracked Pistachio”; Intense Pencils “Antique White” (2300) and “Sun Yellow” (0200); Pigma Micron 05 “black”; Signo Uniball “white”; MArvy Uchida “Liquid Silver”
• Embossing powder: Hero Arts “black” (PW 119)
• Embelishments: Idea-ology “Clippings” (TH93583) and Remnant rubs “Life Quotes” (TH93120)
• Papers: Paper Reflections “Create Your Own” cards “Kraft”; Neena “white”; scraps of pale blue, light green and glimmer green card
• Adhesives: ScorTape; Ranger Collage Glue Stick; and EK Tools 3D Foam Dots