Waterside Resort, Scalloped Blooms, Masculine Birthday Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. It's been a week of masculine cards and after today's post I'm ready to move on to something else. I have lots of cards I want to make and lots of masculine cards I want to make but I need a break from them! Please read on to see how I made today's card.

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Basic White card stock. I cut a 4-1/8" x 5-3/8" piece of Night of Navy card stock. On top of that is the woodgrain looking piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Waterside Retreat" 12" x 12" package.  I taped it to the Night of Navy piece and then that as taped to the card base.

I cut the wavy strip from the same package of DSP. It measured 1-1/2" x 4-7/8" and the Night of Navy layer behind it was cut at 1-5/8" x 5". I taped the two pieces together and then taped that to the front of the card about 1/4" from the fold, top and bottom. 

The shell piece, from the same package was cut and sitting in the bottom of the package of DSP so I thought I'd use it on this card and make it work. So far, what was in my head is not working but I still went forward with the card! This piece measured 2" x 3" and I cut the Night of Navy layer at 2-1/8" x 3-1/8".  I taped the two pieces together. Dimensionals were added to the back and it was set in place on the front of the card about 1" from the top edge and 3/8" from the right edge. 

I stamped the words next using the "Scalloped Blooms" bundle. They were stamped on Basic White card stock using Night of Navy ink. I cut them out with a die in that bundle. Then I cut two pieces from that same die using Night of Navy card stock. I layered one piece behind the word piece and I snipped off one of the scallops to tape to the other side. Hindsight here, I should have switched the way the scalloped layer was added because I could have hidden the left bottom edge under the fish tail and it wouldn't be so noticeable that there are tow pieces of card stock there.  Anyway, I taped this piece in place, tucking it under the shell piece just enough to hide the edge.

I had some vests and fish already cut out so I thought I'd add them to the card. The vests were set in place with both tape and Dimensionals and all Dimensionals on the back of the fish.  And that was it, the card was done. Not one of my better pieces of work and nothing like what was in my head!

Thank you SO very much for taking your time to stop in and see today's masculine birthday card,
Wanda