As endless as the sea

Hello, today I am sharing a cruise ship card in shades of blue. I made a couple of booboos so I took the time to share how I fixed them.

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To create the cruise ship I diecut the pieces from the Boat Pop up, and the pieces from the Cruise Ship add on (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ ) I wanted the windows to look like there were lights on, on some of them so I added vellum behind them and coloured some of them yellow and some blue. I added shading with a Versa Mark Marker, and highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen Then finished assembling the cruise ship.

I cut and scored the card base as shown below. I cut and layered the panels and added them to the card base.

When adding the ship to the card I was a little heavy handed with the glue and had some leakage which then tore the pattered paper a bit. So I thought I would make a wake coming out from behind the boat so I cut out a swirling pattern from the left over paper. I layered it over navy so it wouldn’t look lost on the background. I also used a Wink of Stella pen to add some glitter to the swirls.

I decided to add more Wink of Stella to the swirls on the background. I cut a navy border that is 4 3/4” x 3/4” and added the anchor border from Set Sails Border and added to the left side of the inside. I then layered a couple of squares from the Squares Crosshatch and the anchor from the Cruise Charms set.

Here is ooops 2, I somehow managed to get black ink on the top of the card, I don’t even remember using the black ink but yet here we are. I cut a border, dimensions below. I wrapped it with Bakers twine and then unwinded the ends to give it a more fraid look so that it would cover the ink spot. I assembled the ship from the Cruise Charms and set aside. Using the squares cross hatch again I cut a couple layers. Some of the other layers I just cut to be slightly smaller than the crosshatch squares. And layered. I stamped a greeting from Cruise Greetings on the white square.

Adding the square to the card, I added foam adhesive as shown, making sure to leave a space to bridge over the border with the twine. I added another anchor.