Creation Station Music To My Ears Blog Hop

Our Creation Station Blog Hop is inspired by our favourite songs or music this month, and this one had me stumped for a while!  Finally I decided to think way back to when I didn't just listen to music as backgrounds noise (you know, pre-kids and career, when dancing at pup nights!) and remembered that we had a chosen a very special song for our wedding--and inspiration struck!

Stay with me here, I know this isn't a direct line, but it will eventually make sense, I promise.  :)
The song is Garth Brooks' "To Make You Feel My Love".  You may know it from the movie Hope Floats, which is where I first heard and fell in love with it.   Reading over those words again today I am still moved by the sentiments of devotion and support. 

When the rain is blowing in your face

And the whole world is on your case

I could offer you a warm embrace

To make you feel my love

When the evening shadows and the stars appear

And there is no one there to dry your tears

I could hold you for a million years

To make you feel my love

I know you haven't made your mind up yet

But I will never do you wrong

I've known it from the moment that we met

No doubt in my mind where you belong

I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue

I'd go crawling down the avenue

No, there's nothing that I wouldn't do

To make you feel my love

The storms are raging on the rolling sea

And on the highway of regret

The winds of change are blowing wild and free

You ain't seen nothing like me yet

I could make you happy, make your dreams come true

Nothing that I wouldn't do

Go to the ends of the Earth for you

To make you feel my love

To make you feel my love

I knew I would make a card of support inspired by the overall theme of this song, but one line in particular stood out--"The storms are raging on the rolling sea"--and suddenly I knew exactly what I wanted to create!

I used the alcohol ink technique to create my stormy sea background by scribbling Night of Navy and Balmy Blues Blends on to Vellum, adding isopropyl alcohol with a dropper, and blowing the liquid around as it evaporated.  Then a splattered some ink directly from my Blends on top. Once dried I layered the vellum onto Basic White Cardstock to really make those colours pop (make sure it is really, really dry!  I got impatient here and some of my ink transferred to the white cardstock :( but it's only noticeable if you look at the back).

This fun fold is very easy to make.  The base is a standard 4.25" x 11" Night of Navy Cardstock piece scored at 5.5".  The Basic White Cardstock base is 4" x 10" scored at 5-1/8" and 7-5/8".
To decorate my card I used the On The Ocean Dies to create this amazing 3D ship using Night of Navy and Soft Suede Cardstocks.  I added some shading to the sails and the wood with my coordinating Blends, and then popped it up on Dimensionals.  

The clouds are also from the dies and are created from simple Basic White Cardstock and also popped up on Dimensionals.

The sentiment is from the On The Ocean Stamp Set and was heat embossed with White Embossing Powder on Night of Navy Cardstock and then fussy cut.

The inside of my card is a 4" x 5.25" piece of Basic White Cardstock stamped with the waves image from the On The Ocean Stamp Set.  I used my Blending Brush to add some Night of Navy Ink gently across the bottom portion of the panel before gluing it to my base.

I am so glad that this stamp set and dies are carrying forward to the new annual catalogue (although you can buy them now with a bundled discount that will disappear May 1, so if this is on your wish list you should get it now!).

Now it's time to hop along to Yvonne Spikemans-Van Bruggen at The Creative Teacup to see what music inspired her! 

Happy Crafting,

Barb