All at sea

Happy Easter to those who celebrate (or Passover or almost-Ramadan or whatever else this season brings you!). I hope you are all able to celebrate at home and not missing your family get-togethers too much.

I'm here today with my first non-DT make for Cardz 4 Guyz for many years now I'm playing as a "civilian". The theme is on, in or by the sea, and I dug out this unmounted stamp of a luxury yacht that must be about 20 years old and has never seen ink before.

I folded and cut an A4 sheet of card to make a square card, and stamped the image and sentiment on the trimmings using Versafine ink. I had selected the black, cream and aqua papers from an old SU pad and wanted to colour the sea to match the paper with a watercolour pen. But alas, I found that my watercolour pens had been "grandchilded" and the tip of the one I wanted to use was bent and splayed. However a few minutes of trimming with the craft knife made it usable again - worth remembering in case of future problems!

I finished everything with black matting and an anchor. I wouldn't normally use such a fancy die on a masculine card but I thought the scrolls around the edge gave it a nice wave-like look.

It's got me wondering whether cruise holidays are going to get popular again after this pandemic is over. I've never been tempted to try one, probably because a few years ago I went on a river cruise and it was a nightmare from beginning to when the cruise was abandoned a week early and without the boat ever having moved!!!