NBUS #6 - A Clearly Besotted Pirate Party

Wow! What can I say? I'm not kidding when I tell you I've been bowled over by all your positive comments on my first ever card making video. I do indeed plan on making some more, and you'll be the first to know when one is on its way :)

On to my card! I've been following Darnell for a while now and I love her witty style - the exploits of her 'hamsters' is a hilarious addition to a craft blog. She is incredibly kind and also very talented. Twice a year she runs a challenge known as NBUS - Never Before Used Schtuff - in which she encourages all us hoarders crafters to use all that stuff we've had for ages but never used. I don't have a huge amount yet, but it's growing, so my Lenten buying ban has been rather good at halting this for the time being.

We're already on day 9 of 10, so I took the opportunity to finish up a card I started the other day, using one of my Clearly Besotted sets that I hadn't inked up yet. Shameful!

Those Pirates! I took inspiration from one of my favourite Tintin stories, The Secret of the Unicorn (please don't mention the film, it wasn't a patch on the original works!). I also took inspiration from Kathy Racoosin's first post for the Colouring Challenge - I absolutely love the telescopic look you get from the different layers.

I started out by stamping three images from the Pirate Party set and two birds from Some Birdie Loves You. I coloured them in with Copics (you might have seen it on IG). I then fussy cut them out - I do actually enjoy it!

I then scrabbled around in my scrap box for various shades of green and die cut out several branches from my Concord and 9th Take A Bough die - I only made one little tree last year so it's nice it's being put to good use - and chopped them down to size, and to remove the holes.

I took three pieces of white card stock and die cut three circles from the centre, each of a different size.

Onto a white card base, I adhered some blue polka dot paper from my Lawn Fawn Let's Polka pad to make it look like water. I adhered the treasure chest onto it and three bits of 'seaweed' onto the back of my first aperture and then stuck it on top.

The next two apertures were stuck on with foam tape, as were the pirates, with some of the 'leaves' glued on top to hide them. I added the birds on with sticky red tape and two more leaves on the underside of the top bird. I decided the sentiment should go on the inside.

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So I'm linking this up to NBUS #6 on account of the Pirates. I also noticed that the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is about adding a Bit O' Green to your cards and Clearly Besotted, so I'm linking it up to that too.

I loved doing this card - I really love the dimensional nature of it and building that scene.

Thank you so much for reading and I hope you all continue to have a great week.