Wooden Rowboat Birthday Card

My soon-to-be son-in-law has a birthday coming up, and since he loves hiking, kayaking, and other outdoor pursuits, I thought I'd make a boat-themed birthday card for him. I used Altenew's Wooden Rowboat die set and die cut all the pieces out of the same color of light tan card stock from my paper scrap stash. Then I used different shades of brown to do some ink blending on the pieces to create the different shades you see on the boat. 

After assembling the boat, I created the card base using pattern paper that I thought looked kind of like waves. The idea for this fun fold card design comes from Connie Stewart's Side Step Card tutorial here: 🔴 Side Step Card: The No-Fail Tutorial To A Fabulous Fun Fold (youtube.com). 

I added a few stamps to the front and back of the card on more scraps of that same light tan card stock I used for the boat. The "Wishing you happiness today and every day" stamps are from Altenew's Paint-A-Flower: Waterlily Dahlia set, and the "Happy Birthday" sentiment on the back of the card is from Altenew's CYL: Bewitching Rose set. I really like the dark blue and brown color scheme for a masculine card. 

Close up of the boat:

Side view:

Back of the card:

Challenges I'm entering: 

Anything Goes with a Fun Fold for Creative Creases #79 (secretstamper.com): ATG with a fun fold 

simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: Happy Birthday (1/5; ends 4/10/24)

Creative Knockouts: Happy Birthday (1/3; ends 4/11/24) C10

Art Impressions Blog (artimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com): Pop it up (I used foam tape to pop up the boat) (1/2; ends 4/10/24)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (2/5 for the week; 4/10 for the challenge; ends 4/10/24)

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG (2/2; ends 4/9/24)

A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com): ATG with option of adding one or more flowers (2/8; ends at the end of the month)

Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge: ATG (2/2; ends 4/11/24)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge ...: ATG (3/3; ends 4/6/24)

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: ATG (1/3; ends 4/19/24)

No more challenges.