My "Maiden Voyage" at Top Tip Tuesday

It's my first week on the design team at Top Tip Tuesday.  You could say it is my "maiden voyage" with the team, so what better image than a sailing theme, also ideal for Father's Day, which is this Sunday!

The new challenge today is a nice easy one to welcome the new team members without too much pressure, and it is Anything Goes.   We're sponsored by 2 fab companies, Robyn's Fetish and Stitchy Bear who have kindly supplied some digi images for the design team to showcase.

I've used a half fold card and made the image pop up from the base card so that it gives a bit of variety.  I always struggle with cards for men, because it is my natural instinct to add bows, flowers and other cute and pink things.  I seem to be at a loss to know what to put on a masculine card so decided to give it some shape.  I then added a few buttons, but managed to sneak in some stickles on the sea, as I wanted the sea to shimmer.  What do you think - still masculine !?!?

Card Recipe:

• Image - SS Hoppity from Robyn's Fetish
• Sentiment - One of my own but not yet a freebie as I think that it needs perfecting (the outer text is too small in my opinion)
• Papers - Summertime Designs
• Colouring mediums - Copics (woo hoo I've got some Copics!)
  and Dovecraft Shimmer chalks for sky & sea shaddow.
• Nesties - Labels 16 for the image, and Lacy Circle for the sentiment
• From my stash - Stickles, liquid pearls, Papermania buttons

Please pop on over to the Top Tip Tuesday Challenge Blog to see the other creations by the talented design team, and to enter our open challenge.  I look forward to seeing your creations this week.

I've been inspired by:

• Cupcake - Boy, oh Boy, oh Boy
• Creative Inspiration - Card for Dad
• Paperplay - Father's Day
• Fussy & Fancy - Man's cards
• Allsorts - A recipe for the boys
• Crazy 4 - Masculine Card
• Stamptacular Sunday - Dads or Grads
• Sentimental Sundays - Father's Day or Masculine
• A Spoon Full of Sugar - Splish Splash

Happy crafting.