The MIXX challenge is to make a Manly card, The F4A is about Machines and Tools. IOW, make a masculine card.
This isn't going to be a Father's Day card, my Dad passed just 2 months ago. This was made in honor of him. When he was a very young man, he was in the US Coast Guard. Thus the sailboat.
I started out by cutting a wavy stencil out of scrap c/s. I used this to make the water with the Faded Denim and Salty Ocean. How to do the top part... I started sponging the Salty Ocean, but didn't like the look. So I got the white Lumiere paint and mixed it with a little water and some Faded Denim RI. Applied with a sponge, but it didn't work. Got the idea to use alcohol inks, it is a MIX challenge after all. That worked! I even swiped it across the ocean part. Much better.
While I had the white Lumiere paint out, I used a stencil brush to go across the tops of the waves.
The dark sky needed something, in comes the MB cloud dies. I used the negatives as stencils, using a little black and white ink and applying with a sponge.
This was die cut with the oval die. Put it on top of the metallic white scalloped oval, adhere to the card base, add the ship, which is on dimensional adhesives, add the Wish and call it done! I wanted to use the Dream die cut, as my Dad was a big dreamer, but that die cut didn't fit. Dang!
Anyhow, one card for 2 challenges! Hopefully all of this makes sense,
TFL!
Date: Friday, June 2, 2017 GMT Views: 1188
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