TESC #112 Challenge! A masculine card!

A friend at work commissioned some Father's Day cards – which put me to the test. Masculine cards are something I don't do that often. If I do, it's usually leaves or trees or something made with the Cricut. I dumped out lots of stamping bins and found some good masculine images of boats and lighthouses. I wanted to enter the TESC challenge so this is one of the cards I came up with! You can find the sketch over at Taylored Expressions Blog! 

The Sketch Image:

I really wanted this card to have a vintage feel to it. I crumpled the cream paper with the central boat image and then flattened it out again. I distressed the edges with brown ink. I tore some of the blue paper to look worn also. The background paper reminded me of old mattress ticking or sail cloth. It already had the vintage look to it. Added some Scrapper's floss to mimic rope. You can never go wrong with red, white and blue as a color scheme. I like how it came together! The sentiment was printed on the computer.