Sunday, September 23, 2012

River Boat Thank You

On Saturday night we were invited on a River Boat Dinner Cruise and I made this card to thank our friends. We had a wonderful time, met several new people, and had an amazing viewing point for the fireworks competition at Coney Island. It was a perfect evening!!


I used the ship image from Inspired by Travel from My Favorite Things and the layout is FMS53 from the Freshly Made Sketches blog. I decided to watercolour instead of using my copic markers so I had to dig out my watercolor paper, but once I found it I used the Designer Labels 3 STAX Die-namics to cut out the image panel. I stamped the ship with Palette Noir ink and set it aside to dry completely. The colours I used on the image were Memento teal zeal, Memento potter's clay, Memento london fog and SU soft sky. I used my Circle 2 STAX Die-namics to cut out a Steel Grey circle for layering and added a circle of rhinestones to jazz it up.

The background paper is from the Authentique Fresh collection. I didn't want to cover it up with strips of paper so I used the cut out portion of the Retro Squares Die-namics to cut out strips of Tangy Orange, Sweet Tooth, and SU sahara sand.

On the inside I stamped a Thank You sentiment from Thanks A Bunch and used the Solid Bracket Border Die-namics to cut out the Tangy Orange accent.

Here are the Die-namics I used:





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Karen

6 comments:

Karen Giron said...

Shut the front door!! WOW!! I am loving the retro square background on this - holy cow!

Jen Brum said...

Great card Karen! Love your take on the sketch! Those "stripes" are fabulous! Love the circle of bling around the ship! Thanks for joining us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

Linda Suarez said...

HI Karen! Great take on the sketch! Love your use of the retro die. Thanks for joining us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

wendy said...

gorgeous

Ann Schach said...

What a unique and creative take on the sketch! The rhinestones are a fabulous touch! Thanks for playing at Freshly Made Sketches!

Leslie said...

I like this! I like the rhinestone circle, the retro dies and especially the pattern paper you chose - looks like waves!