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!
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Sun, Sep 07, 2014 @ 7:14 AM
Wow Peggy..this is absolutely gorgeous! Not your usual fare of frills and swirls but very masculine and a perfect birthday card for Jason. The process to make the scene truly amazed me since I am technologically ignorant but the results blow my mind. Spectacularly amazing!!
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Sun, Sep 07, 2014 @ 10:10 AM
Oh wow Peggy!!! This is so beautiful and sooo not your usual!! I love it though, just shows another side of you I never knew about! I love that about our little community of stampers...getting to know about the artist through their art!
So beautiful Peggy!!!
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Peggy, OMG, this is a masterpiece!!! I'm sure this will become part of the decorations in their home. I think my jaw dropped to a whole new level when I saw this!! And THEN reading about how you did, I just sank back in my chair in absolute amazement. You could make SO much money going from home to home and setting us up with the right equipment and the know-how to make something like this. Please put my name at the top of the list of class participants! I don't know how you're ever going to top it, but I'm sure you will! Hugs, Darnell
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Sun, Sep 07, 2014 @ 11:12 AM
Amazing card! I really love how you took us on the creative journey to make a special card for a son that you obviously love so much. That was the best part but the card is just awesome. This epitomizes what this craft is all about and how it touches people we care about.
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