Sail Away - a new lease of life

Masculine Monday is back! Lots of my customers tell me that male cards are the thing they find most difficult so, every Monday, I post a male card for a bit of inspiration. I made today's card for the St Lukes Charity Challenge where this month's theme is to 'give a new lease of life to something old, tired and destined for the bin'. Well I could certainly do with a new lease of life but since that's a bit of a challenge, I had a bit of a rummage round the house for something else! Here's what I made:

The background was a scrap that I'd used to practise brayering on during the holidays. It wasn't very smoothly done so I'd thrown it in the recycle bin but I thought I could rescue it and create a storm for the Sail Away stamp to sail in! Here's a closer view:

I teamed the boat with elements from French Foliage and I think they work really well together. Come to think of it, everything works well with French Foliage! Can you see where I've sponged the uneven brayering with white? After that I crumpled a piece of scrap paper, put it into the Night of Navy ink and dabbed it on. This creates lots of movement gives a wild and windy effect - bit like the weather we had last week! Do you like the sails of the boat? They're coloured with my white watercolour pencil - I love my pencils!

My other piece of recycling was this embellishment. I got a pair of posh secateurs for Christmas which were attached to the packaging with a screw and one of these washers. I found the other washer in the tool box and tied them onto my card with a scrap of linen thread. I always like a nice group of three so I added one of the tiny silver mini brads too.

Supplies needed for these projects:

Stamps: Sail Away, French Foliage

Ink: Island Indigo, Pool Party, Night of Navy, Crumb Cake

Card stock: Naturals Ivory, Whisper White

Other: Watercolour pencils, silver mini brad, linen thread

I'd be delighted to order any of these supplies for you and can have them delivered to your address in the UK. I am committed to providing excellent customer service and am always happy to help and advise. Just send me an email or give me a call on 01280 820593. 

I've got distracted haven't I? I'm supposed to be showing you all the loveliness in the new mini catalogue! Well I'm at sixes and sevens to be honest having spent the weekend in bed with a temperature! My husband was off on a business trip which left my three children to rise magnificently to the occasion. Headed by my teenaged daughter, they formed a crack team that shopped, cooked, cleared away, mopped my fevered brow and entertained me - in fact, I don't think I've ever enjoyed having a bug so much in my life!

Thank you for joining me today. I hope you'll pop back again this week as I've got loads to show you, starting with something purple tomorrow...!

Hugs,