Sailing by the moon

 A card suitable for a male today and for any occasion.  To create this image I blended a little blue over the centre of the card, allowed it  to dry then masked off the moon.

 I then set about blending the ink sky and sea.  I used the edge of a dauber and drew in the streaks in the sea  to create the impression of waves / ripples.  I left the area around the bottom of the moon and along the horizon slightly lighter.

 I stamped the sailboat  using black ink, and then coloured in the image with a black marker. I added stars buy dotting a white gel pen over the sky.

Dave's Birthday

 Here's a card I made today for my brother in law. Dave has always had a liking for VW campers and has owned several  over the years. So this campervan stamp is perfect for him.  I bought the stamp many years ago,  but I couldn't get on with it very well, so it's been stashed in a drawer for years and has been badly damaged.   The front  wheel  (that would be behind the man) broke off this morning, but because I stamped the man first and masked him off, I could still use the damaged VW stamp by carefully positioning the stamp so that the missing wheel falls on the masked off man.   It doesn't show on the finished image, proving that damaged stamps can still be used with a little planning.  I die cut the image into a circle which meant I cut off the back end of the van.  I have to say , as much as I like using whole stamp images this van looks a lot better with it's rear end chopped off.

I masked off the van and stamped the trees and coloured the images.

I finished the van off by adding little gem stones on the lights. I used some travel theme DSP from S.U. for the background. I would have preferred the compasses were a bit smaller, but beggars can't be choosers... not without breaking the law that is. ha ha ha.