DOstamper STARS Thursday Challenge #134: The Open Sea Masculine Card

Hi Stampers,

Love this weeks  DOstamper Thursday DSC#134 Home Sweet Home Challenge.  This challenge gave me an opportunity to make a much needed masculine card. Hope you enjoy the card,  I would love to hear your comment if you have time.  God Bless!

I used the Open Sea Stamp Set for the images on this card, but also believe it or not the bush was made using a small part of a stamp from the Ornamental Pine Stamp Set and also the En Francais Stamp Set for the calligraphy on top of the bush.

Basic Instructions:

• Using the Ornamental Pine Stamp Set, stamp the bush onto Whisper White CS using the small portion of the pine from the stamp set and Crumb Cake Ink. Use the En Francais Stamp Set for the calligraphy on top of the bush.
• Stamp other images using the Open Sea Stamp Set, punch out compass image with the 1" Circle Punch and the black circle behind with the 1-1/4" Circle Punch.  
• The anchor was stamped onto a cut @ 1-1/2" x 1-1/2"  Whisper White CS and the Basic Black CS layer behind it was cut @ 1-1/2" x 1-1/2".
• Cut a Basic Black CS base 4-1/4" x 11" and score at 5-1/2".
• Cut Whisper White CS @ 4" x 5-1/4" for layer 1
• Cut Basic Black CS CS @ 3-3/4" x 5" for layer 2
• Cut Whisper White CS @ 3-1/2" x 4-3/4" for layer 3
•  Loop some Twine and place under the top layer of the card.
• Use lots of Dimensionals to "pop" things on the card.
• Envelope and Envelope Liner was made with the Envelope Punch Board and the Typeset Specialty Designer Series Paper

Product List

The Open Sea Clear Stamp Set [123032] $18.95	The Open Sea Wood Stamp Set [128454] $26.95	The Open Sea Stamp Brush Set -- Digital Download [124112] $3.95	Ornamental Pine Clear-Mount Stamp Set [135107] $18.95
Ornamental Pine Wood-Mount Stamp Set [135104] $25.95	En Français Clear-mount Stamp Set [127790] $13.95	En Français Wood-mount Stamp Set [128562] $17.95	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $8.50
Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045] $6.95	Typeset Specialty Designer Series Paper [133704] $12.95	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $5.95	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [126975] $5.95
1-1/4" Circle Punch [119861] $15.95	1" Circle Punch [119868] $12.95	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $6.95	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $3.95
Glue Dots [103683] $4.95	Envelope Punch Board [133774] $19.95	Stampin' Trimmer [126889] $29.95

Check out more "Home Sweet Home" inspiration from my fellow DOstamperSTARS (click on their links below) : 

• Judy Strickling: Open Sea Sponged Wave card
• Connie Plaumann: Open Sea Collage card
• Miriam Bollinger: Open Sea with Nautical Knot card
• Mackenzie Fuchs: Adventure Awaits card
• Sharon Bennett: Open Sea Collage card
• Dawn Olchefske: Guy Greetings Anchor card

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