Waterside Resort, Masculine Birthday Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have one more masculine birthday card to share with you before I move on to something else. Please read on to see how it was made.

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

I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Crumb Cake card stock for the largest layer. On top of that is a piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Waterside Resort" 12" x 12" package. I taped it to the Crumb Cake piece and then that was taped to the front of the card base.

Next I cut the boats image from a sheet full of fun images to play with. It's from the same package of DSP. It was trimmed to measure 3" x 2-1/4". I taped it to a 3-1/4" x 2-1/2" piece of Crumb Cake card stock. Dimensionals were added to the back and it was set aside.

I fussy cut a bobber, a fish and a lifejacket from the same package of DSP.

Three pieces of hemp thread was cut about 7" long each.  I added a little bit of glue to hold them in place just a little to the left of center. Then I set the boats layered piece in place over the hemp strips. It's about 7/16" from the top and left side of the card edges.  The hemp pieces just curled like that on their own. I tried to straighten them and they wouldn't budge so I just went with them the way they were. 

Dimensionals were added to the back of the lifejacket and it was set in place on the upper right of the card.

I taped the bobber in place on the lower left of the card and then the "Happy Birthday" was added. It was printed on my computer and cut using a die from the "Stylish Shapes" set. It was set in place using Dimensionals. 

Dimenisonals were also added to the fish and it was set in place on the lower right.  

I took two pieces of the hem and tied a knot and glued it to the boats image. I just thought it needed a little something.  

I trimmed the ends of the hemp pieces and the card was done.

This was a very quick and easy card to make, even with the fussy cutting.  This fish was one of the not so fun ones to cut out of all of the fish on the sheet but I stuck with it because I thought it was the best choice for this card. It was fun to use that boats image. I thought it might live in the package forever!

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