The Card Concept Challenge #156-Anchor's Away

Welcome my stampy friends! 

It's getting HOT here in the South!

It was 90 degrees today! And it isn't even June yet!!!!!

(Thank goodness for air conditioning)

I am back to share a card that I created for our NEW challenge starting today at 

THE CARD CONCEPT CHALLENGE!

I was inspired by the nautical theme to create a beach scene.

I started by creating some beach cottages! I stamped a house image from the Holiday Gnomes (Reverse Confetti) onto some white card stock to create beach cottages! The cottages did not have stripes on them, so I had to improvise!!! I took my ruler and a Micron Marker 05, and drew lines onto the cottages to give them a beachy feel. 

Next I colored the cottage's stripes with blue, navy and red Copic Markers. The cottages didn't have stilts! So... I cut thin strips of white card stock, colored them with the Copic Markers to match the cottages, and glued stilts on them.

 I think they turned out very cute! 

(Hindsight...I would have made this a landscape card.)

The background is a 3 3/4 X 5 piece of white card stock. I took a Cloud stencil (MFT) with some Stormy Sky Distress ink and created a beautiful sea sky, but it is hard to see the clouds in the photo! I sponged some Antique Linen and Gathered Twigs Distress ink along the bottom of the panel to create the sand. To create the ocean, I sponged some Turquoise Ink (Altenew) right above the sand. 

 

 

 I stamped some birdies in the background. Added the sentiment. I added Crystal Glaze to the windows of the cottages, and of course always my Wink of StellaGlitter Glue pen! Gotta have sparkle!

I hope I have inspired you to create a card or project to share with us!!!

 The style of my card would be considered

CLEAN & LAYERED

~Clean lines

~Lots of Layers

~Designer papers, embossing

~Embellishments/accents

~Clean & Fresh looking

~Some colored images

~White space

I hope you will create a card or project using any of the  styles we have defined or create your own with a combination of styles.

All of the styles are explained HERE.

The Rules:

1.  Use the challenge inspiration to create a card.

2.  Use one of the challenge styles to create a card (or if you prefer, combine a few styles).

3.  Explain in a post which style or combination of styles you used and what inspired you from our photo.  

4.  Link your post using our linky (please link to the actual post on your blog and not just your blog).

5.  Please try to comment on the cards ahead of you and behind you in the linky.  Everyone loves comments!

The deadline to participate is 

Monday, June 7 at 12:00 pm EDT.

Please join us!

We look forward to seeing your artwork in our gallery!

Please visit The Card Concept 

to see what the other Team Members have created.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Mackie

Stuff I Used:

Stamp:Holiday Gnomes (Reverse Confetti)

            BirthdayWishes2stamp (Stamps of Life)

            Sailing Home (Stampin Up)

Card Stock: Thick Basic White (Stampin Up)

Pattern Paper: Come Sail Away (Stampin Up)

Dies: Stitched So Sweetly (Stampin Up)

Inks: Black Memento

Distress Inks: Stormy Sky, Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs

Copic Markers: B93,B21, B18, B26, R29, R46, Y11, C1

Nuvo Crystal Glaze

Wink of Stella Clear Glitter pen