contact paper fish

A very easy and simple craft we have been enjoying lately involves contact paper! 

During Halloween we made a contact paper pumpkin, and since then we've been making all sorts of contact paper crafts. For our ocean theme we thought it would be great to make a fish. For something like this, I found it easiest to cut out the shape we wanted the end product to be first.

We used a mix of green and navy blue tissue paper squares as well as some aluminium foil squares for a bit of fishy shine!

Then, sticky side up, Noah placed a small black circle for the eye and then added the tissue paper scales. 

 Once the fish was happily covered in scales...

I put a rectangle piece of contact paper sticky side down on top of the fish.
Here it is flipped over. Now I can cut around the fish outline and trim the excess contact paper off. 

And here is our shiny fish hanging on the wall. Loving the foil here, nice little addition. :o}

If you want to see some hearts for Valentines done this way head on over to Bizzy Dayz. We will be doing these too. As I said above, we are huge fans of this kind of craft - because sometimes you really don't want to get the glue out! :o}