Monday, October 24, 2011

Sailing the Ocean Blue

A double header for today's card; I've amalgamated the Just Add Ink sketch challenge with the Inkspirations colour challenge.



The colours are perfect for a masculine card and even more perfectly fit the colours of the papers I wanted to use. Here's my card:



The sails have been stamped twice and layered - little bit of fussy cutting, but not too bad and it makes me think of a ship in a bottle. I covered the anchor stamp with crystal effects after cutting it out, then tied some cherry cobbler baker's twine through. It took no time at all for the CE to dry in this heatwave we are having! Phew! Wouldn't mind an ocean voyage to cool off, lol.

Materials used:

  • stamps - The Open Sea
  • card - cherry cobbler, not quite navy, very vanilla, sahara sand, Nautical Expeditions DSP
  • other - crystal effects, bakers twine, dimensionals, non SU die, Big Shot, sponge daubers

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers
Kez

12 comments:

H2 :) said...

Fantastic card Kez. Love those billowing sails & the twine trim on your anchor is perfect! :)

Paula Dobson said...

This is such a cool masculine card Kez. LOVE that DSp and stamp and can't wait to get my hands on them! A beautiful take on this weeks JAI challenge, thanks for playing along ♥

Juliette Chapman said...

Gorgeous Kez. This set, DSP and Bakers Twine are top on the list for my pre-order. Hope I can do justice to the set like you have.

Anonymous said...

LOVE this Kez! Love the anchor with the bakers twine!

Nikki Spencer said...

Perfect combination of challenges Kez, the layout and colours are great together and the extra detail in the fussy cut sails and anchor are fabulous.
Thanks for playing at JAI.

Bronwyn Eastley said...

What a fantastic masculine card and perfect choice of challenges for sketch and colour.

Lynda said...

You have done it again Kerry. This is a PEARLER of a card and I literally gasped when I saw it...then again at the sail details. Such a grand swash-buckling card darl. ooxx

Shandell said...

What a great masculine card! Love the idea of the sails - very effective :)

Susan Joyce said...

Hi Kez,
Like how you did the sails and the anchor, looks fabulous.

Jodene said...

What a great card Kez! I love the layering of the ship's sails and the anchor is THE perfect embellishment to finish it off - gorgeous! Thanks for joining us again this week at Just Add Ink :)

Marisa said...

Koodos to you for doing that fussy cutting on ship so you could layer it! Looks fabulous!! Wonderful use of this week's colours - the perfect nautical mix. Thanks for joining us at Inkspirations this week :)

Jo said...

This is simply gorgeous Kez. I love everything you have done. Thanks for playing along at JAI this week.