Friday, November 2, 2012

JAI #142 : STAMPIN' UP!'S THE OPEN SEA

It has been a while since I've used The Open Sea, one of my favourite masculine stamp sets, so decided to use it for this week's Just Add Ink challenge.

Mae has come up with this great sketch for us to use as a starting point for a card/scrapbook page:






I have used for my card base the fabulous new Natural Composition Specialty paper from Stampin' Up! - can you see the embossed horizontal lines on the card front?  LOVE this heavyweight paper.





Stamps: The Open Sea, Bring on the Cake
Card: Very Vanilla
DSP: Natural Composition Specialty DSP, Comfort Cafe and Be of Good Cheer Designer Series Papers
Ink: Crumb Cake, Midnight Muse and Cherry Cobbler stampin' pads
Other: Corner rounder punch, 3/4" circle punch, sponge daubers, Linen Thread, Cherry Cobbler seam binding, Midnight Muse stitched satin ribbon, Antique brad, blender pen, glue dot
 
 
 
The rest of the Just Add Ink Design Team have come up with some amazing cards using this sketch - you'll love the variety.  Be sure to check them out here, and play along with us, if you can!  We'd love to see your card based on this sketch.
 
 
 


10 comments:

  1. Loving the colour theme you have chosen, the stamping over the background stamp and the sponging, it all looks very vintage.

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  2. You always do Masculine so well Christine and this is another wonderful example. Your use of colour and stamps really draws the eye to that main panel, it's gorgeous! xxx

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  3. Another beautifully executed male card, Christine. Love that you have added ribbon, but kept it so very masculine. The colours & images are fabulous! Hugs ♥

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  4. Love your take on the sketch Christine. Very rich yet perfectly masculine and so atmospheric. xxx

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  5. Love the gorgeous panel with the ship. What a great card.

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  6. I really, really love this masculine card Christine - you are the Queen of them! I'm in love with the antique brad in the centre of the compass stamp - may have to CASE this idea!

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  7. OOOWH I really like your masculine card Christine - great rich colours and the compass embellishment looks fabulous

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  8. Love the collage effect you've created on the main panel, Christine. Another great masculine card!

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  9. What a perfect card Christine. I love that the DSP around the main image just looks like cording and suits the stamp so well.

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  10. Great masculine card, Christine. Love that colour combo with the Natural Composition DSP - it really suits the vintage touch. The brad on the compass is super too.

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