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: 11932
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Registered: December 4, 2009 Location: Southern Utah's Dixie Posts: 20568
Thu, Sep 04, 2014 @ 5:34 AM
WOW! So Gorgeous, Peggy! You went to a lot of work to make this one of a kind treasure, but it is worth every second you put into it! Now if someone could make that sailboat into a die, it would be a sale out!
Registered: January 20, 2011 Location: Beautiful British Columbia Posts: 7619
Thu, Sep 04, 2014 @ 11:29 AM
Gorgeous card and Jason is sure to treasure this beautiful keepsake card from his mom LOVE all the work you've done to make this so special and personalized for him. And amazing how you can take a photo and make it look like a watercolor painting --- wow! xx
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Registered: April 18, 2011 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 51844
Sun, Sep 07, 2014 @ 2:19 AM
Oh my goodness Peggy, this card is incredible. I loved reading the process..WOW...I think Jason should frame this masterpiece. I googled the name Kalevala and came across the Wikipedia explanation. I tell you Peggy, I never fail to learn something every time I visit my SCS friends. I love everything about this wonderful card my friend.
------------------------------ Susie
Please don't take your organs to heaven - heaven knows we need them here.
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 132007
Sun, Sep 07, 2014 @ 3:46 AM
Fabulous boat and scene! It sounds as if you really enjoyed making it, and I'm sure your son loved it.
I have to admit that it was actually the card title that attracted my eye looking down the Favourites thread - I used to work in a Finnish (design) shop here, and also know Sibelius' music, so I was intrigued as to what the card might be.
Oh Peggy! What a treasure!!!! You did so many creative things with this card to personalize it. The sailboat is gorgeous, what a sweet gift from Pam!!!