This card was made for my son Jason's birthday. He and his wife bought a sailboat earlier this year and this is the name of thier boat. The meaning of the name is much to complicated to go into in this post! I guess it was bad ju-ju to change the name...so they kept it! :-)
A couple of months ago I mentioned to my most talented and generous friend Pam (Yorkie Mama) that I wanted to find a new sailboat image for this upcoming birthday. The next thing I knew she had sent this SVG file to me. I LOVED it! I
cut it (using my SCAL program) at 3.5. inches in white and in blue and slightly offset the two (the color of their sailboat). I copied and pasted the name of their boat off one of their boat pictures from Facebook (no easy feat). I temp glued the sailboat to a piece of copy paper (over where I had already printed the name) and printed the name on the boat, (ran the whole thing through the printerÂ…I was pleased that it worked!) I used my large ball stylus on the back of the sailboat and it gave it some nice dimension. The picture is one from Laguna Beach CA. and I took it when we were with out of town friends who treated us to dinner the other night. (It is also a place I took him to when he was young.) I put the photo into a picture program and used the watercolor effects on it and then printed it on computer watercolor paper. Oh! And I found some silhouetted digi seagulls on the internet and added them to my photoÂ… I think I was more pleased with figuring out how to do that, then making the whole card! I must have remade the front of this card 4 timesÂ…working to get my layers (adding the blue and orange in different depths), changing circle size (Spellbinder)and trying to get the sentiment placed correctly. I REALLY like the Quote I found for the outside, which I found searching sailing quotes on the internet.
His birthday is today and he and his wife and father who is visiting just sailed back from Martha's Vineyard tonight. (Their first trip there!) They live in CT and his dad lives in Tenn.
I should have taken a pic of the inside. I punched a rope edge down the side and backed it in the same blue on one side. Then I put Happy Birthday vertically (small die cut letters) in black on the blue on the outside of the rope punch. (a panel about an inch wide) On the white side of the rope punching ,I stamped “Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated” as my inside sentiment.
This card was a joyful undertaking!
Thank you so much for stopping in to take a peek!
Date: Sunday, August 31, 2014 GMT Views: 11884
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Registered: January 8, 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 40327
Mon, Sep 01, 2014 @ 12:55 AM
Wow, Peggy, this is a wonderful and loving card for your sailing son's birthday - such a lovely scene and your sailboat is awesome - my DH has been a sailor all his life so he would love this!!! He is hoping to take his boat out later this week up at our holiday place!
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You know Peggy, I love everything that you create.........but I think this is my most favorite!!! Everything on it is SO original right down to the gorgeous color scheme that you chose.....when I look at I feel like I'm in that boat sailing and I can feel sea breeze. I just know your son must really love this one!
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Mon, Sep 01, 2014 @ 5:46 AM
Made with such love, you can see it overflowing!!! Beautiful, just absolutely beautiful!!
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Mon, Sep 01, 2014 @ 7:03 AM
This is amazing and going right into favorites! The effects you used on the image look just like a hand painted watercolor scene! I LOVE the sailboat you created for this. This is truly an exquisite work of art!
Registered: May 23, 2009 Location: sunny california Posts: 9825
Mon, Sep 01, 2014 @ 7:24 AM
This is stunning, Peggy. I wish I could do all that amazing computer "magic". The cards we make for our cherished sons always have a special "glow" about them. The sailboat with the personalized name is just so creative and I love the layout. One more thing we have in common...my son's birthday is tomorrow, not the same day, but close.
Registered: June 18, 2014 Location: PA Posts: 1222
Mon, Sep 01, 2014 @ 8:00 AM
Wow, amazing! That sailboat - it's so precisely assembled and the placement is perfect. I envy your computer skills - I know how to find an image, but to make it work like these did - that's truly an art. I'm sure your son will love it - thank you for sharing it with us first!
------------------------------ SilverSnow Lois Malachi 3:10 "See if I will not throw open the floodgates of heavenand pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it"
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Mon, Sep 01, 2014 @ 4:47 PM
This is so amazing, I wish I could fav it twice! I sorta did, - put it in my Pinterest fav's as well. Your hard work and attention to every last detail shows and Jason will love it. He's in my neck of the woods right now. My sister lives in CT - a beautiful state. This is creative card art at it's best!
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