06 June, 2016

Fishing

Looks like I haven't quite figured out how to schedule my posts, or blogger won't accept my timing. I'll have to stick with the manual way, I guess :)

A while ago, Anne from the Ooh-la-la challengeblog asked me whether I'd like to be their guest designer for a month. Of cours I liked, so we decided on June and well, here I am with challenge #1 – One for the Boys. I've been given a selection of Ooh-la-la files to work with, and I decided to go for the fishing-theme. 
I used the ooh-la-la background paper featuring fishes and decided to make a rather simple male card. For the centerpiece, I've chosen a saying I found at quotesville.com – "A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work". 
I placed it on a couple of blue background snippets and coloured the edges with different shades of coloured pencils.
As it's a boys' card, I used very liittle embellishments – all in all, it's mainly the anchor-shaped charm on a cord and gemstones in silver and blue that would resemble bubbles.
Additionally, I decided to decorate the inside with two fishes I've cut out from the background paper print.
Off to the new challenge now. You're invited to participate with your male-themed creations for the next 12 days here - I can't wait to have a look at what you'll come up with ;)
A little contribution to the June collection of Create in Austria - artwork created by Austrians and/or in Austria.

challenges:
- 4 crafty chicks: masculine
- pink gem: weather (any season - summer)
- allsorts challengeblog: the great outdoors
- crafty calendar: for a male
- crafty cardmakers: mononchrome
- crafty sentiments: gems/pearls
- cute card thursday: father's day

15 comments:

  1. Fabulous card love your image and your card design. Thanks for joining us at CHPPC, good luck with the challenge. hugs Shirleyxxxx

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  2. Congrats on your GD spot, your card is beautiful.....love the embellishments! Thanks for joining us over at Crafty Calendar this month & good luck!
    hugs Jo x
    Dt
    I have CANDY if you'd like to enter!

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  3. Fab design on your lovely card, thanks for joining us at Allsorts this week, xxxx

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  4. What a great card and love the sentiment.The anchor is the perfect embellishment as are the gem bubbles.Thanks for joining us at Crafty Sentiments.Hope to see you again next week.
    Lisa x

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  5. Great card and the sentiment is great. It works so well. Thank you for sharing with us over at TTCRD! Nicky

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  6. The sentiment you used is wonderful and I really love the anchor charm. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful creation with us at 4 Crafty Chicks Masculine Challenge.

    Tamie DT

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  7. Great card. I love the anchor. Great photos!!! Thanks for joining us at Inspiration Destination. I hope to see you again on the next challenge! Good luck!!! Patricia

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  8. A great card - thanks for joining us at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog.

    Helen x

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  9. A beautifully staged card, with a layout that seems like a boat being tossed on the high seas. Thank you so much for posting your very beautiful art in the #232-#233 - Anything Goes FF Word Art Wednesday Challenge.
    Blessings, Carole

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  10. Oooh, love that little anchor with all the fish! Thanks for sharing over at TTCRD!
    Katrina
    ScrappyHorses.blogspot.com

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  11. I love it. What a fabulous card for 'The Boys'.
    Thank you for entering it in to my Monochrome challenge at CCM.
    Hugs Kimx

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  12. Great sentiment. I love the anchor charm. The background papers are really pretty too. So pleased you are joining us this month as Guest Designer for OLL. Wynn DT xx

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  13. Such a great card. Thank you for playing along with us at Allsorts this week.

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  14. Great sentiment and B.papers love the anchor charm and bubbles--Thank you for joining us at 613 Avenue Create
    Carol DT x
    congrats on your GDT spot too

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  15. Cool card!!! Thanks so much for participating in our {PIN}SPIRATIONAL challenge!!! Can’t wait to see you participate again in our next challenge!! Have a great crafty day!!! (So sorry for not commenting sooner but this proving I'm NOT A ROBOT stuff is driving me nuts!!!)
    Deanne at A Little Bit O’ Paper

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