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.

Matthews 18th

This easle card was made for the son of an old school friend. Who happens to be into sailing and I believe is well on his way to being a Marine. I used the sail away stamp in the a la carte range in Stampin' up's mini catalogue. This card measures 8"X 8" so it is quite large. I had to remove some of the ink from the hull of the boat before I stamped this as I wanted a splash of red on this card. Lots of daubing, paper tearing, matting and layering went into this card. There are two hidden pockets. One of which has tag with a greeting on and the other has a tag for the sender ( in this case, Mum) to write their own greeting on. This card used four sheets of black card one sheet of 12"x12" card in crumb cake, four sheets of whisper white card stock, and that's not counting the pieces I messed up on and had to do again , lol.I used a pair shoe laces for the knot. Click on pictures for a more detailed view. I cannot take all the credit for this card as it was inspired by a card I saw on an Australian demonstrators website.