Ship Ahoy!

Hi guys!  I hope you got a chance to watch Sam's shows yesterday on C & C using these stamps.  They were fab!  Leah and I sat and watched them together(between episodes of baby tv!)  I didn't realise until I watched the shows just how many samples that I had made using Sam's new ship stamps!  There are actually three more to come after this one!  I sat down one afternoon and cranked out seven ship cards without blinking an eye!  They are very easy to be creative with and work so well for those pesky male cards we always worry about having to come up with ideas for, huh?  This card took about 15 minutes to make, which is very unusual for me!   I started with a piece of the 12" x 12" Tim Holtz kraft card from his Kraft stack..  It already had a lovely large compass sort of pattern on it in a raised clear embossing.  It picked up the light nicely so you can see it on the background of the card in the pic.  I used Grand Labels four to cut it out.  Using the natural jute that Sam had on the show yesterday, I glued it to the edge of the card following the shape of the nestie, but when I got to the bottom corner,  I coiled it leaving the end piece to come out and fray at the end.  I stamped the ship on a back of a leftover  piece of the kraft card with a black archival ink pad.  I cut it out with a circle die and edged it with black soot distress ink.  The highlights on it were done with a white pencil.  I stamped the sentiment on a kraft tag (which actually came off of something I purchased and I just used the back of the tag!)  I used a clear perfect medium pad o stamp a few anchors om it for a watermark look.  I edged it with black soot also.  I hadn't realised that the metal tassel I attached to the top of the card had fallen as I took the pic so it looks a little bit like a blob, but it is actually one of the Tim Holtz metal tassels so it hangs nicely when you hold the card upright.  I added one of the game spinners to the background (sort of to look like a compass needle).  I cut a piece of black card and distressed the edges quite heavily and matted the entire card on it.  You could quite easily adapt this for Father's Day or a male birthday and you have a quick and easy card sorted!  All for now, Sue x