Maritime Card

Here is a nautical themed card I made for my Dads birthday, I love the worn look of the you'vidual elements that look as though they were in use once.  into he background is made from kraft card printed with nautical elements, a Tim Holtz Components stamp and a kieser craft script stamp using a masking technique.

The more prominent images are stamped first. These are then masked off with the same image stamped on to a post it note then cut out and stuck over the original image on the card.  Then the background stamps like the script one can fill in the gaps without stamping over the first images.

The white parts above are the post it masks which are stamped over with larger images.

Here is the finished background.

Other components are the map stamp from the docrafts range coloured with promarkers, and the same Tim Holtz stamp from the background made into a little bit of ephemera which can be unfurled to reveal the whole stamp.  The ship has been stamped on to a die cut square (xcut, parenthasis die set) in black ink, and embossed with clear embossing powder, the sentiment was stamped in the same way.

Inside the card I roughly cut a piece of paper, inked it to look like a treasure map you'd make at school and stamped Happy Birthday onto it.

Here is the finished artical, I was really pleased with the look of this card. I think it looks authenticly worn with a dollop of distressed goodness.