I have developed my stamp fish stamp design a little further. From my initial design I realized that if I wanted to include the fish's lure I had to make the fish quite small on the stamp. To overcome this problem I decided to make the stamp portrait. I created the queens head by using 'live trace' on an existing stamp in Illustrator. I applied a yellowish colored paper texture to give the stamp more dynamic colour & try to show its in deep sea. I also duplicated the fish, made it larger, set layer style to soft light & lowered the opacity to try and give the image more of a 3D feel. Im still concerned that the text would be too small to read when actual stamp size. I will create some stamp size versions & print them out to see what they look like.