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Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: By the Sea (pretty much any water source)

Here is my card for your inspiration:

This started out with one idea and changed into something similar but different.  I pulled out a bunch of old, old, old stamp sets and had some fun playing with them.  The papers are from a beautiful water themed SU! pack, the blue has a really pretty foil/holographic element to it and the white paper has some crabs and mussel shells to add to the sea theme.  I die cut the label die and stamped a palm tree/beach image in a light gray before adding the sentiment with navy ink.  I die cut the anchor and wheel from vellum and stamped the images with a dark gray ink.  I tried the vellum because I didn't want them to be the center of the show just some supporting elements.  But, I wanted them to have a bit of substance to them so I also die cut from white card stock and adhered the vellum pieces on top.  It is still subtle, but they don't get lost on the patterned papers.  Then for a little bit of fun, I tied some twine to the anchor and looped it up and around.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Verve "Strong Anchor" sentiment and images; Sweet n' Sassy Stamps "Landscape Silhouettes" palm tree image

Dies: unbranded stitched label die from Amazon; Verve "Strong Anchor"

Challenges:

We Love Stamping--hearts OR anything goes (I chose anything goes)

Word Power--anything goes with sentiment as focus

Cardz 4 Guyz #353--monochrome

Make My Monday #271--use 2 dies (I used three)

Crafty Catz #707--anything goes

Creative Fingers #316--anything goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #272--anything goes

Try a Sketch on Tuesday #689--sketch

Fab n' Funky #631--dies or punches

Word Art Wednesday #740--anything goes