A young Jack Sparrow????

      LOL  Here's another "everything but the kitchen sink" card.  :-)  It's an "Anything Goes" challenge this week at Mo's Digital Pencil and I picked out Captain Hugh to use, or should I say Captain Jack.  LOL  What do you think?  Has Jack Sparrow replaced every other pirate you've ever heard of when you think of swashbucklers?  LOL  Scruffy beard and jacked up teeth aside that man is finer than frog hair split four ways!  (That one's for you Lisa M.! Mwahahah)
     Pop over to Mo's store and take a look around.  There's such a great variety of images for ANY occasion.  You don't have to use as many supplies on your card as I did :-), but we'd love to have you join in the fun this week.  And speaking of joining in, we are welcoming a brand new team member this week.  The sweet Barb Hardeman is coming aboard to add some more inspiration for you.
     Here's a run down of how I created this card.  The image was colored with Copics and Prismas and matted twice.  Little Captain is mounted on top of a row of waves that I created by using the negative of a scalloped edge die.  I added a little white acrylic paint dabber to the peaks.  The brown paper underneath is actually a treasure map print but most of it got covered up.  :-(  On the left side I ran some kraft through a Cuttlebug folder for the wood grain and inked it lightly.
     I'm really ashamed at how much stash I have that I've forgotten about.  I remembered I had some TH grunge board hinges, but was totally clueless that there was a fantastic skull and cross bones in the same package.  Isn't it an awesome embellie!  I painted it with white paint dabber first and then lightly inked it with Versamark and added white opaque embossing powder.  I should have tapped off a bit more of the powder before embossing for a little grainier texture, but it looks cool anyway.  I inked it with Pumice Stone to fill in the little cracks and crevices.  The hinge pieces were inked with Versamark and covered with Vintage Photo Distress embossing powder.  After embossing I rubbed off the crystals and added Vintage Photo Distress ink for a wonderful rusted look.  Thank you Tim Holtz for all your amazing ideas.  :-)  I added some tiny brads and attached the hinges over the wood grain piece that I'd added eyelets and some jute cord to.  If you've got a pirate you have to have some rope on there somewhere.  LOL
     Last but not least I created the spyglass view.  The treasure map paper comes from a DCWV 12 x 12 pad that had a couple of other pirate theme sheets.  One had that great pirate ship on it so I ran it through my scanner, reduced it to fit, and printed it out.  I cut two chipboard circles with a Nestie and mounted the ship onto a solid one.  Very carefully I added ink with a Versamark pen just on the ship image and added UTEE.  I did this a couple of times.  For the other chipboard circle I cut the inner part out and embossed the rim with gold embossing powder.  I glued it on top of the image and added a couple more layers of UTEE to fill in the inner circle.   So now you know what Little Captain was seeing in his spyglass.  :-)
     I hardly ever finish the inside of a card, but I decided to do it for this one.  Nothing fancy, just a sentiment to finish the theme.

     So there you have another kitchen sink project and hopefully a little inspiration for Mo's challenge this week.  Hope to see you in the entries.  :-)
     I'd like to enter Hugh/Jack into the following challenges:

Fab 'n' Funky--embossing (wet and dry here)
Little Darlings--outside
Celebrate the Occasion--child's birthday
Going Grey with Scrap-Creations--birthday
Cards for Men--the great outdoors
Crafty Boots--nautical/red, white, and blue
Karen's Doodles--make it for a male
Pollycraft--water, water, everywhere
Catered Crop--brads
2 Sisters--birthday fun
Crafty Emma--no girls allowed

     Happy crafting!



Supplies

• Paper:  My Mind's Eye, DCWV, Bazzill, Recollections, Kraft Outlet chipboard, Copic XPress-it Blending card
• Stamp:  Mo's Digital Pencil "Captain Hugh"
• Ink:  Copics, Prismacolor pencils and OMS, Versamark, Vintage Photo and Pumice Stone Distress inks
• Tools:  Nestabilities Standard Circles Large, Labels One, and Classic Ovals Large, Crop-a-dile, Cuttlebug, Distressed Stripes embossing folder, Memory Box Classic Scallop die, Marvy Uchida Heat Gun
• Miscellaneous:  UTEE, Vintage Photo Distress, Stampendous Opaque White, and Ranger Gold embossing powders, Snow Cap paint dabber, We-R-Memory Keepers eyelets, jute cord, Spare Parts brads, Tim Holtz grunge board pieces