Hello and welcome to the to the Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop where we are sharing fun fold cards. I have chosen to use the On The Ocean stamp set to create a vertical easel card.

The colours in this project are:

To recreate the sailing ship card, you will need:

Thick Basic White – 8” by 5⅞” – scored at 2” & 4”
By the Bay dsp – 5 ¾” by 1⅞”- x 2
Balmy Blue – 5¾” by 1”
By the Bay dsp – 5⅝” by ⅞”
Balmy Blue – 3½” by 1¾”
Basic White 3½” by 1¼”
Scrap Basic White, Balmy Blue, Real Red, Early Espresso & Basic Black

Using Balmy Blue ink, I stamped the clouds onto the 2 identical panels of By the Bay dsp. The birds were then added in Night of Navy ink. The 2 panels were then glued to the Thick Basic White card front.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A sailing ship vertical easel card made using the On The Ocean stamp set and Dies for the Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop

The remaining panel of dsp was adhered to the Balmy Blue strip using Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive and then mounted onto the inside of the card base on Dimensionals, right up against the edge.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A sailing ship vertical easel card made using the On The Ocean stamp set and Dies for the Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop

Using the On the Ocean Dies, I die cut the solid wave from the 3½” by 1¾” panel of Balmy Blue and the detailed wave from the 3½” by 1¼” piece of Basic White card. The two were adhered together and trimmed down. As an after thought I stamped the wave image along the bottom using Balmy Blue ink.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A sailing ship vertical easel card made using the On The Ocean stamp set and Dies for the Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop

The ship, body, sails and mast, were die cut from Early Espresso card. The separate sails were die cut from Basic Black card and the skull and crossbones from scrap Basic White card. The black sails were glued over the Early Espresso sails and the skull and cross bones added.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A sailing ship vertical easel card made using the On The Ocean stamp set and Dies for the Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop

The skull and crossbones were stamped in Versamark ink onto scrap Real Red card, covered with White Embossing Powder and heat set. It was die cut out using the flag die. This was adhered to the top of the mast.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A sailing ship vertical easel card made using the On The Ocean stamp set and Dies for the Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop

I folded off cut strips of dsp in half and glued one half of the strip to the ship and the other side to the card front butted up against the fold. I used three strips on either side.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A sailing ship vertical easel card made using the On The Ocean stamp set and Dies for the Stamping Inkspirations Blog Ho

I loved playing with this card, such fun.

Please hop along to share the fun fold cards created by my fellow crafters. Next up is the lovely Tricia Butts

Jan Musselman  ●  Mo Rootes

Tricia Butts  ●  Judith Patterson  ●  Susan Webster

Leonie Stuart  ●  Karen Henderson  ●  Annette Ball

Anne Krucek  ●  Vickie Littlewood  ●  Teri West

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Details of the products I used for this project can be found below.

Mo x

Supplies used: