Waterside Retreat, Banner Sayings, Masculine Birthday Card, Father's Day Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. I have been spending most of the week posting masculine cards and they have been coming from a video that Terri Gaines created using the full sheet of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Waterside Retreat" 12" x 12" package. This sheet has 12 (maybe 13) images on it. I'm not sure of the exact number because I no longer have full sheet to count them accurately. I could look in the catalog but I don't think I'll be able to see a line defined enough to give an accurate account. But for now I'm going with 12, which is a lot for one sheet!  You can see Terri's video by clicking here. Please read on to see how it was made.

The base of the card is a folded half-sheet of Basic White card stock. It opens on the right and the fold is on the left.

I cut a 1-1/2" x 5-1/2" strip of Mossy Meadow card stock for the strip. And a 1-1/4" x 5-1/2" of the fish DSP was cut to go on top of the Mossy Meadow strip. I taped the two pieces together and then taped that to the front of the card about 1/4" from the fold.

Using the same fish DSP and using the 2nd smallest die in the (retiring) "Branching Out" die set, I cut the a piece out. I also cut the green tag from the sheet of DSP. It was cut allowing the dark boarder to be left around the sides and bottom. The top was torn and then rolled/curled forward.  It was then taped to the fish piece.

Mossy Meadow card stock was used to cut the back layer and the 3rd smallest die from the "Branching Out" set was used. I taped the fish layer to this layer. Dimenisonals were added to the back and it was set in place on the front of the card. It's about7/8" from the top and bottom edge of the card base and 5/8" from the right edge. 

Another piece of DSP was used for the word piece. It's on the backside of the lifejackets sheet. The "Three Banner" punch was used to punch the piece out. Lining up the lines of the DSP in the punch to get that fun border look for the words to fit in between.  I actually punched the piece out first and then stamped the words. Normally I do it the other way. The words are from the "Banner Sayings" set and Basic Black hybrid ink was used to stamp them. Dimensionals were added to the back and it was set in place over the bottom green area of the fish layered piece. 

I love the clean and simple look of this card. It's a perfect masculine card! I think it would be a nice Father's Day card too!

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