Hi friends! Christina here to share a masculine nautical-inspired card featuring the most delightful pelican from the new Block Print Pelican die set. He makes the perfect focal point for this little coastal scene I created using the Corner Waves and the Waterfront Pilings. To really play up the nautical theme of this design, I framed up the scene with a porthole window that was a breeze to make with just a couple of nesting circle dies. Let’s dive into the details of this card!
I started by die-cutting all the elements for my scene from colored cardstock. I chose ivory, slate gray, and orange for the pelican, and two shades of brown and matte silver for the waterfront pilings. I chose leaf green for the tiny fish from the Sea Kelp and Mini Fish die set and classic blue for the water. I assembled the diecuts and arranged them in a scene on the center of a light blue cardstock panel.
To create the porthole frame, I first die-cut a large circle from the center of a kraft woodgrain cardstock panel to be the porthole window. I attached this over the scene with foam tape. Then, I die-cut a circle frame from matte gold cardstock using two nesting circle dies. The smaller, inside circle is the same size as the porthole window, so it would match up perfectly. I attached this to the woodgrain panel and added a few matte gold pearls to complete the porthole look.
Finally, I heat embossed a sentiment with cream embossing powder on a slate gray sentiment strip and added a shiny black pearl to the pelican’s eye.
Thank you so much for reading about this masculine nautical-inspired card I created using new dies from the latest release. See you soon!
