Sailing Home for Fathers Day

Happy Fathers day! 

Today I am sharing with you a collection of cards I have created with the distinktive stamps from the Sailing Home stamp set. It's been available for over a year now but it's still my go to set for cards for all of the men in our family!

This card features the colours Night of Navy and Balmy Blue. You can check out the products I've used to make this card by clicking on the image at the very end of this post.

I created the first card for my father who lives in Trinidad. I posted it over a month ago and I am so disappointed that it hasn't arrived yet. So I'd like to give a shout out to my Dad, Happy Fathers day! I don't know when I'll see you again but I want to thank you for all of your support over the years! I truly appreciate it!

I made this card yesterday for my husbands father. He is going to visit him today (in his garden, social distancing). He is so lucky to have his father living only 2 miles down the road! Unfortunately my father in law isn't able to walk unaided anymore but I know that one of the things he loves to do is visit the seaside!

I've used this stamp set so many times, yet the idea for this card only came to me yesterday. I actually created the card base a few weeks ago but I wasn't sure what to put with it. I love how ideas come together - it was just perfect for this card!

I've used the colours Misty Moonlight and Seaside Spray in this creation. Can you see the very subtle sky background behind the lighthouse and sea effect below the boat? I've simply achieved by using a sponge dauber very lightly with some shapes cut of out cardstock as a mask.

To create the background I inked the Birch stamp with Seaside Spray ink and then embossed the piece of cardstock with the Subtle embossing folder.

Next up are some cards I made a few months ago! Unfortunately some of the products I've used have now retired from the catalogue. But lucky for me, I still have a nice stash of the patterned paper!

I created this card for my uncle in laws birthday back in April. As you can see, this card is very similar to one of the cards I have already shown but includes some of the stripey Sailing Home DSP that has now retired. 

I lightly used a dauber to create the blue background behind the lighthouse and also stamped the birds, before I embossed the card with the Subtle embossing folder. 

For the lighthouse, I inked the whole stamp in Balmy Blue, next I used a dauber to apply some Smoky Slate ink to the centre of the stamp, I then applied some Night of Navy ink to one side of the stamp - then finally, I stamped the image. Can you see the different colours in the image below? 

I learned this technique (not sure if it has a name?) at the Pinkies team training in Milton Keynes in February, a month before lockdown. I'd never thought about applying different colour inks to a stamp using a dauber before!

This is the card I made for Captain Tom! I was really hoping he would see it but he received over 150,000 cards so I think it's very unlikely.

I used the now retired Large Letter dies and the Sail Away DSP. I added some foil elements for a touch of luxury.

If you haven't heard of Captain Tom, here is some information I have sourced from Wikipedia .... 

On 6th April 2020, at the age of 99, he began to walk laps of his garden in aid of NHS Charities Together, with the goal of raising £1,000 by his hundredth birthday. In the 24-day course of his fundraising he made many media appearances and became a popular household name in the United Kingdom, generating huge interest in his life story, earning a number of accolades and attracting over 1.5 million individual donations. He featured in a cover version of the song "You'll Never Walk Alone", with proceeds going to the same charity. The single topped the UK music charts and made him the oldest person to achieve a UK number one.

On the morning of his hundredth birthday the total raised by his walk passed £30 million, and by the time the campaign closed at the end of that day had increased to over £37.4 million. His birthday was marked in a number of ways, including flypasts by the Royal Air Force and the British Army. He received over 150,000 cards, and was appointed as honorary colonel of the Army Foundation College. His knighthood was announced on 19 May, and conferred the next day.

I've entered these cards into the CASology challenge (week 370) - the theme is fathers day!