Wishing Myself Fair Winds and Following Seas. Why Knot?

No point in having a blog about papercraft without papercraft, right?  So here is a card I made a few months ago.  This card seems befitting to celebrate my maiden voyage as I set sail into the world of crafty blogs.

I loved the idea of doing a more masculine card so jumped at the chance to get a hold of Papertrey Ink's Out To Sea stamp set.  This is a CASE of Melissa Philips card she masterfully made a few years ago.  I had a lot of fun researching cool nautical knots to use on this card.  Here is my "bash" at a reef knot.

As it has been a while I can't recall all the finer points of this card like exact ink colors etc. but I'll take a punt nonetheless:

Stamps:  PTI Out To Sea
Paper:    Vintage Cream and Ocean Tides
Ink:  Brilliance Cloud White, Distress Ink in Antique Linen, Fired Brick, Momento London Fog, and Versacolor ? Tourquoise and ? Chateaux Gray (sorry).
Accessories:  Cuttlebug Nautical Stars and Swiss Dots Embossing Folders, Misc. Brad, Inksentials Crackle, Garden twine that has been braided and reef knotted *feeling clever to have learned a "real" knot*.

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