Sail Away to 50!!

Good afternoon all.

My old boss (who I worked for in total for 10 years) recently celebrated an significant "0" birthday. Even though h is no longer my employer, he is still a good friend and I could not let the occasion go by without a card. one thing he is passionate about is sailing and the ocean, so it was an easy decision to make the card nautically themed.

Now I have forgotten where I found this card, and I cannot even credit the creator (sorry), but this is the card I took my inspiration from.....

This is the card I gave to my former boss.....

I kept the elements from the original of the boat, sentiment and self made DP, but I do not have a spritzer, so I stamped off my World Map BGS and used it instead. I also put the boat on dimensionals.

Now as you can see, I did not use a button (it was a masculine card after all) and I found a tutorial for the Sailor's Knot here. I got some twine from Michelle at The Stamp Spot and used it to do the knot. BTW.....SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy with the result!! He is a chap that does not like a lot of fuss, so I hid his age on the inside font of the card and made a wee flag from the Pennant Parade set and used some more twine to "hoist it up the mast"!!

Thanks for popping by. I know my posts have been a tad irregular at present, but rest assured I have a lot more to share.....in between life in general!!

Stuff Used:

CS: (SU) Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Not Quite Navy

Ink: (SU) Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze
Stamps: (SU) Sail Away (ret), World Map BGS (ret), Life Definitions (ret), Pennant Parade
Punches: (SU) Petite Pennants Builder Punch, Decorative Label Punch
Other bits: Twine fm The Stamp Spot, Dimensionals, Gold Numbers

Lynda xx