Stamptastic Friends June Blog Hop Nautical

Happy Sunday everyone and welcome to the Stamptastic Friends June Blog Hop as we explore this month's nautical theme. Our wonderful Design Team will be sharing their projects and ideas to inspire you. When I think of nautical, I think of the ocean, sailing, boats and my favorite color - blue. 

For my card today, I focused on the ocean, boats and the color blue to help me create my design. The Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper has some wonderful striped designs and I chose one of these to create the background for my card. The blue and white stripes has a wonderful nautical feel to it and when I paired it with the anchor image from the Beauty Of The Deep Bundle, I had the beginnings of my card design.

Products Used:

Beauty Of The Deep Bundle (item #161237)

He's All That stamp set (item #159071)

All That Dies (item #159078)

Stylish Shapes Dies (item #159183)

Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper (item #161467)

Night of Navy Cardstock (item #100867)

Misty Moonlight Cardstock (item #153081)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Embossing Powders (item #155555)

Linen Thread (item #104199)

Festive Pearls (item #159963)

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals (item #144108)

Measurements:

Night of Navy Cardstock

Card Base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Medium Circle Frame die cut with the Stylish Shapes Dies 

Sentiment Label die cut with the All That Dies

Misty Moonlight Cardstock

Medium Circle die cut with the Stylish Shapes Dies 

Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

For my card design, I chose to use Night of Navy, Misty Moonlight and White with a touch of Silver to step up the design. l wanted the anchor image to pop against the Misty Moonlight background so I heat embossed it with Silver embossing powder onto a piece of Misty Moonlight cardstock and then die cut it with the coordinating dies. I added it to the center of the Misty Moonlight circle with Mini Stampin' Dimensionals to pop it up. For the frame, I used the Stylish Shapes Dies to create a Night of Navy frame that would fit the Misty Moonlight circle and I attached it with Mini Stampin' Dimensionals that I cut in half so that they wouldn't show. The sentiment has been heat embossed with Silver embossing powder to coordinate with the anchor image and I added Silver Pearls to embellish the label. To add some texture to the design, I wrapped a piece of Linen Thread around the bottom of the designer series paper card front twice and tied a knot on the right hand side before attaching it to the card base. I added the sentiment label with Mini Stampin' Dimensionals over the Linen Thread, centering it on the card front. I also added a piece of Linen Thread through the hole at the top of the anchor and tied a knot before attaching the image to the card front, centering it above the sentiment. This design is perfect for masculine cards and instead of making a Father's Day card like I did, you could change the sentiment to make it a birthday, graduation or even retirement card. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my nautical themed card design will help inspire you to explore mixing and matching products in the 2023-2024 Annual Catalog to create your own beautiful card designs. There are so many wonderful possibilities to choose from. A reminder that the Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper is on sale this month as part of the Designer Series Paper Sale and you can save 15% during the month of June. 

Please take the time to visit with my fellow Design Team members to see their wonderful projects this month. Just click on the links in the Roll Call List below to find your way. We would appreciate it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you enjoyed about our projects.

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online Store to place your order and have it shipped to you. 

Until Next Time

Happy Stamping,

Tricia Butts
Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

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