Seashore Father's Day

Today I have one card that I am entering in three challenges. With Fathers Day right around the corner it gives us crafters time to work on some masculine cards. So, the challenges I playing along with are Color Throwdown, Freshly Made Sketches, and the Mod Squad Challenge Blog.  All these blogs had such great ideas I could have done more cards with each challenge but decided to meld them into one card.

Sending my card off to:
Mod Squad Challenge Blog: Masculine
Freshly Made Sketches: FMS188
Color Throwdown: ctd344

And here is my card! I hope you enjoy it!

The power of three is what Freshly Made Sketches
did for their challenge. I decided to something masculine
and a bit over scaled.

The gray ombre sky gives the card a
more nautical feel vs. blue.

 A close up of my trio being true to the
Color Throwdown color scheme. 

I really like the way this card turned out. The gray ombre is probably my favorite part because it has the feel of a ships dock. The magic of masking allowed all three elements to be on the trimmed layer. Plus the wood texture is also on the same trimmed layer.  At first, the Color Throwdown challenge seemed like it wouldn't work for a masculine card because of the pinkish coral color. However, when I saw this seashell I knew that color was right up this cards alley.

So this is how I did it.

1. Cut and scored my CS base to A2 size. Set aside..
2. Trimmed another piece of CS an 1/8" smaller.
3. Took the trimmed piece of CS and then partial die-cut a rectangle.
4. Stamped the ship on the trimmed piece of CS. 
5. Stamped the ship again on Post-It note then fussy cut to create mask. Applied to the card.
6. Stamped the shell
7. Repeated step 5 using the shell stamp. Applied to card.
8. Stamped the plant twice inking up the stamp and thumping on the darker color green.
9. with all the masks still in place I stamped the wood grain then removed masks.
10. Sketched around the edges where I will be fussy cutting and then cut around the images.
11. Colored all the images and wood grain per the Color Throwdown challenge plus some dk neutrals.
12. Stamped sentiment on dk. brown CS with VersaMark Ink then heat set white. Cut into a strip and added it to the trimmed card.
13. Traced the outline of the scene on original CS then sponged gray ink to fade out on the top (ombre).
14. Adhered trimmed CS base to original base.

This card was a bit complicated to make but wow what a result! Like I said at the start of this post all three challenges just worked so perfectly with this design.

Well that is all for me tonight; I hope you enjoyed your stay and we will see you soon. Don't forget to please leave a comment good, great, or otherwise. I like to hear what you have to say!

All the best,

Shawna