Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Sailing Away

I'm back! I'm sure you noticed that I took a bit of a hiatus, after the MFT GDT spot :) I enjoyed it so much that it was hard to come back down from being on cloud 9! But I'm back! :)

So I needed something to get my creative juices flowing, when I saw that Flourishes has a neat sketch challenge. I had missed so many of their wonderful challenges, in the past month, that I wanted to jump right in and this was the perfect time!

This is the card that I made from the challenging sketch.
(For some reason my blog is making my card all blurry. You can see it better if you click on the picture).



I used "A Guiding Light", "Antique Map" and the Happy Birthday stamp from "Sweet Violets". All are from the Flourishes company (love their stamps!). I used a long Rectangle Spellbinder to make the window cut out, and placed the lighthouse piece inside it. I then used my Tombows to color in everything, then added some Diamond Glaze to make the water more translucent instead of flat looking. I sponged some Antique Linen all over everything lightly, for an old patina look.

I needed a card for my younger brother's birthday today (Happy Birthday, Matt!!) and I love how it turned out! I struggle with "manly" cards, but this sketch really helped me think outside the box :)


Sorry for such a short post, tomorrow is my youngest's FIRST birthday and we are busy getting ready for it!!! :)

8 comments:

  1. Simply a STUNNING card! So pretty.
    Lynn

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  2. Be still my heart!!!! Oh, please, please, please never give this away. It is an incredible work of art. Holy WOW!

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  3. Breathtaking. It's so beautiful and so cool and I so totally love it!

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  4. So very adorable!! Love the nautical..they are so hard to find!! Fantastic job!

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  5. Amanda this is wonderful.. I LOVE what you did here.. Your combination of all of these is awesome..

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  6. sigh....oh WOW Amanda...such a fantastic combination of these sets and stamps. Fantastic elements to make a stunning card!

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  7. Beautiful card Amanda! Love the nautical theme!

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