Hello … bonjour … hope you had a Blessed and Joyful Easter! I’m here for the last time today as Featured Designer over at The Challenge … it’s been so much fun and an honour to have joined Lesley and the DT for the whole month … such amazing talent in this fabulous group of crafters … and such wonderful, inspirational challenge photo’s! Thanks so much for having me, ladies, it’s been a delight! We have a masculine theme this time round (the fabulous picture is below) … here’s my take on it …
My stash is nautically challenged … but I was so taken with the images and those delicious blue hues that I wanted to capture the overall sense of the ocean! I used Papertrey‘s Ombre Builders to create the ombré waves across a white card panel, added a stacked SSS ‘smile’ die cut so it would bob about on them (as a life saver would!) and adhered a flag shaped secondary sentiment (also SSS) alongside. The miniscule pops of red in the die cut and at the end of the flag mimic the edge of the wavy navy pillow in the photo! I sponged the edges of a card base with Distress Ink and popped the panel up on craft foam over it … voilà!
There are so many different elements to this gorgeous inspiration photo … what takes your eye? You can choose to focus on any or all of them … or just use it as a prompt to spark your creative imagination. We’d love to see what you come up with … hope you’ll join us in the gallery! All the details are over at The Challenge … along with plenty of wonderful ideas from the fabulous DT!
I’m playing along with …
CAS(E) this Sketch – see below … such a cool sketch!
TE Share Joy – Clean and Simple
Little Tangles – Ombré
Seize The Birthday – Water
After being up to my eyes in alligators for a while, I’ve at last begun to make my way around blogland … I’ve missed you all … and all the gorgeous cards you’ve been making! What a wonderful voyage of discovery awaits … see you soon! Thanks so much for coming by, your visits and comments are always a joy! Anita 🙂
My Papercraft World 
Love your take on the inspiration photo, Anita. Also love how you used the border stamp. Makes me realise I own this set and should be giving it some love…
Marianne x
Perfect take on the photo, Anita. I love this!
CAS and stylish…as usual x
Fab ombré look and love that die x
Anita I love the ocean scene you’ve created … with the perfect little lifesaver!
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Very cool design, Anita! I love how you placed the wavy stripes behind the sentiment circle, and managed to make a “nautical” card without using anything nautical!
For someone who’s nautically challenged you’ve made an awesome nautically themed card !!! WOW !!!
Absolutely perfect! Love those ombre “waves”!
Anita I love your ombre waves, so perfect really. Happy Eater to you my friend!
I just got this stamp set (it’s still in my NBUS pile) and I love how you used it to make waves in different colors! Your “life saver” die cut finish the card very nicely! Inspiring CAS take on the inspiration picture!
Just curious and puzzled by what you mean with “being up to my eyes in alligators”? I hope it is an expression I don’t know… 😉
Hope your Easter holiday was enjoyable!
Love how you think pal! FABULOUS resourcefulness exhibited here! You captured the nautical theme perfectly, despite being somewhat ‘boat & stuff’ challenged! Really cool waves too!
Almost ‘back to normal’ here. Took several days to get back on track with my sleep pattern! I’m off today and actually playing in my craft room! Yippppeee!
Oh boooo. I’ll miss your inspiring cards for the “The Challenge”. The good thing is you definitely went out on a high note. Love the subtle red touches and that ombre background. Don’t know how anyone is going to be able to top this card.
Fabulous take on the inspiration image, I love your CAS design.
I love this CAS masculine birthday card. Great way to get in the “water” element. Thanks so much for playing with us at Seize the Birthday.
Barbara, DT member.
Well I love what you created with the inspiration! Wow, Anita! So clever and a great use of the sketch too! Thank you for being our Featured Designer this month! It was wonderful having you!
WOW, you really did give me the feel of the sea. This is such a fantastic card Anita, it is a pure clean delight.
Your CASlicious design really does evoke the ocean waves, Anita, and the SMILE feature was made for this use! Way to go with this awesome manly design!! I’ll miss you on the DT at The Challenge! And I miss you, period! Hugs, mon amie! Darnell
Marvelous, liebe Anita, deine Karten sind immer wieder ein purer Augenschmaus.
GlG Elisabeth
Love the ombré waves with the fab white die cut – just fabulous! xxx
Very CAS and beautiful! Love the ombre waves. Thanks for playing along with us at Seize the Birthday!
Oh Anita, this is fabulous! I love how you paired your Smile die cut with your Ombre Builders stamp set! Beautiful shades of blue, too…LOVE this card!
You still have time to add this card to the ‘Anything Goes’ challenge at ATSM, if you like 🙂
http://www.addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.hr/2016/03/challenge-186-anything-goes.html
Lovely take on the inspration. Love those ombre waves & that little dot of red on the white die-cut is perfect. Very nautical.
Anita, this is such a fabulous entry for the challenge – CAS masculine perfection!
perfect clean and simple take on the inspiration photo, anita!!
This is so pretty!! Thanks for joining us at Little Tangles!
Love the ombre waves Anita, this is crisp and clean!! Hope you enjoyed a lovely Easter as well!!
Oh my, I am so loving your take on the inspiration photo Anita! So clean, so simple, so perfect! I love that you still mimicked the ocean and nautical theme even though you didn’t have much nautical supplies. You are amazing Anita! Hope you had a blessed Easter my friend. Hugs, Brenda
Anita…this is just so sweet and so perfect for this week’s challenge! I love the clean look you created and that wee pop of red, just fabulous my dear friend.
Such a clever take on the inspiration photo. Loving the ombre look and the clever use of the simple red dot. CAS perfection.
Love the way you made the waves and trew a “life-saver”on it! Such a powerful design! Hugs, Gerrina
This is a perfect CAS design with the ombre waves for water. I just saw this die this morning and I think that I need it. Thanks for playing with us at Seize the Birthday Challenge.
Barbara DT member.
Great work on that wave (great thinkin’! Love the ombre-ish feel to it! I also like the pops of red although I REALLY had to zoom in to pick up the red at the end of the flag! Missed seeing you around, but have enjoyed your cards immensely!
Oh, I love this! Fabulous take on the sketch!
Love love this. Those blue lines–so watery and naugical, and the way your sentiment just floats atop. Brilliant teeny bit of red.
very pretty card.. Thanks for joining us at Little Tangles
Anita, this is brilliant! You certainly made your card nautical with those wavy stripes! I love your fabulous sentiment! CAS perfection! XX
Loving this beautiful CAS card! especially the sweet little red dot on your i.
Patti
I love your take on this challenge! The ombre waves are gorgeous and I love your die cut bobbing on top of them! Clean and simple perfection!
CAS and fabulous my friend! Well done as always! Thanks for joining us over at Seize the Birthday and we hope you will be back soon!
Yes, this card makes me smile! Thanks for joining us at Little Tangles!
Totally fabulous!! I LOVE the blue ombre and the fun way you used the Smile sentiment. Great take on the challenges!!
Lovely CAS card, Anita! Love your fun take on the inspiration!
Such a stylish and clever interpretation of the inspiration, Anita! I love how you created the waves, and the touch of red on the lifesaver.
Another wonderful CAS creation, Anita!!! Beautifully done and you’ve even got the little touches of red!!!!! Such a great masculine card!!!!!
Hugz
Such pretty stripes. Perfect masculine card!
LOVE it Anita!
What an inventive way to navigate around the ‘nautical’ limitations in your stash (same here: living in the mountains doesn’t seem ‘conducive’ for adding boat/ocean themed things very often…I’m happy with my sea creatures stencil and solitary anchor). Waves captured perfectly! Manly marvelous, my friend! Those alligators that have been taking up your time are also visiting me! Catching up on your awesome gallery today!
Hugs~c