Saturday, August 9, 2014

'You Anchor me' !

Hello friends,
Today I have a Nautical masculine card to share with you all. It's so not my usual style and my first real attempt at a Masculine card.So without further ado, here's a look at what I have made! :)
                                                                     
 And  an another view :
To create the base of my card I have used a Woodgrain embossing folder. I cut the paper into long strips measuring 3/4 of an inch by 3 inch and embossed it in the embossing folder, then I distressed it using Vintage Photo and Scattered Straw Distress inks and tried to create the wooden plank kind of effect we see on water fronts! I have created the Sailor's knot on the either side of the sentiment banner and added a die-cut 'You' and stamped my sentiment using Lawn Fawn Harol'ds ABC stamp set.

Incidentally the sentiment banner is made from the smallest of the Timeless Tags 2 from Wplus9. I used the partial die cutting technique to create a long base for it so that it could be held by the sailor's knot on the two sides. So love using my dies in a creative way :) The life- buoy ring I have made using two circle dies and distressed it with Peacock Feather's Distress ink. The anchor in the centre is a wooden MDF piece which I have heat embossed using Ranger Super Fine Silver Embossing powder on a MDF base and the four golden brads that you see on the corners are actually plain flat-backed pearls which I first coated in Versamark Ink pad, then completely covered it with Gold UTEE(Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel) and heat-set it and voila! you have a gorgeous golden brad-like embellishments and nobody will know the difference! *Winks* 

Here's a quick tutorial on how I created these Faux brads :

Hope you find this tip useful and that's about all the information regarding my card ! If you have been with me till now thank you so much for your patience :) I really wanted to share all the tips and tricks which went into making this card as I really had a lot of fun creating it !

Supplies used :
Card baseFabriano white cardstock, Fabriano Watercolor paper.
Dies : Ironwork Motifs Circle dies, Timeless Tags 2 from Wplus9, Simon says stamp 'You' die.
Embossing folder : Woodgrain Embossing folder from Darice.
Distress inks : Vintage photo, Scattered straw, Peacock feathers.
Versamark Dazzle Embossing ink pad and Versafine Onyx Black ink pad.
Stamp - Lawn Fawn Harold's ABC stamp set.
Embossing Powder : Ranger Superfine Silver Embossing powder, Gold UTEE.
Twine, Brads, Pearls and Studio Calico Stars Wood veneers.

Challenges entered :
BGC #56 : Nautical
Allsorts challenge blog :All Sentimental
Brown Sugar challenge : Use a Banner ( Made it to Top 3! )
Little Red Wagon : :Embossing

Hope you all like my card please do leave me your comment's /suggestion would love to hear from you :)
Have a nice day everyone !

18 comments:

  1. It is stunner Hussena-- I love all the elements and Especially the wood planks and the life buoy-- sheer genius to alter the pearls---love all the work you out into this beauty!!

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  2. This is absolutely gorgeous!! I love the wood plank background!! All of the techniques you used are fabulous!! This is beautiful!! Have a great weekend :)

    Lisa
    A Mermaid's Crafts

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  3. AWESOME card Hussena! The anchor looks awesome! Love the masculine colours you chose to go with! Fabulous. Thank you for the trick with the pearls..I so wanted brads like these. :)

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  4. OHHHHH! It took me a second to understand what you were doing with the background! ABSOLUTELY amazing! I hate doing masculine cards but you rocked this one!

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  5. Wonderful card! If this was your first attempt at a masculine card then you certainly nailed it! All the details are awesome. Thanks for joining us at Little Red Wagon.

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  6. What a fabulous background Hussena and you have made your gents card with style....so lovely.
    Julie x

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  7. How neat, just love the board plank background, great tip for changing the pearls to gold!

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  8. Super cute anchor... love the details...Thanks for joining us over at Brown Sugar Challenge~

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  9. it is really fabulous idea of using the Golden Utee, nice bg and a beautiful card

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  10. Fabulous card Hussena!!! Love the background, lifebuoy and the faux brads technique...and your sailor's knot is AWESOME!!!

    Thank you so much for playing along with us at BGC :)

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  11. Wow! Hussena, die Karte ist klasse für einen Mann.
    Gefällt mir sehr gut.
    Wunderschön gearbeitet :-)

    Herzlichst Sophie

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  12. Oh wow. This looks amazing! I love how you transformed those pearls...clever!

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  13. Oh my !!! :) This is classic nautical !
    Love ur brad idea and i really appriciate that you gave so much attention to detail with the sailors knots :)
    Thanks for joining us at Beyond grey challenges this fortnight !

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  14. Fab creation, thanks for joining Allsorts challenge, good luck.
    Happy crafting
    Tracy x

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  15. Hussena, this is a fabulous, masculine card. I love the background and I really like nautical. Good job with the sailor's knot and the twine wrapped around the ring looks great. Thanks for the tutorial, too.

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  16. Amazing card! You really cared about details here!
    Thank you for playing with us at BGC!

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  17. Love it! That texture is awesome!! thanks for joining us at BGC!

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  18. This is a terrific male card...I like your use of the bakers twine.

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