Hi
It seems that lately the only crafting I get to do is with a 4 year old sitting on my lap being the artistic director! (I’m not complaining, I love it!) It does mean though that most of my craft time is spent thinking up fun ideas for cards for kid’s birthday parties! This past weekend’s challenge was a card for a pirate themed birthday party.
So off to my office/craft room we went and did a little Google searching for inspiration. Mr 4 was most impressed by the idea of an owl pirate – and he thought we should make a pirate like this one on Lynn Starzi’s blog.
I’m not too sure about this card (remember Mr 4 was the artistic director!) but here it is:

Most importantly, both my munchkin and the lucky recipient thought it was great – so I guess that’s what matters!
The waves were made from some scraps of Pacific Point. I’d saved some off cuts from cutting out some Top Note shapes, and the edges of where I’d cut out the Top Note actually worked quite well as waves!
The rest was the card was a mix of free hand cutting and Stampin’ Up! punches.
The pirate was made from the owl punch. The pirate’s shirt had to be “red and stripey” apparently, so I found an old bit of Poppy Parade DSP (now retired). Please note the peg leg! Made from the candle from the cupcake builder punch. The eyes were cut from the owl punch with “goggly eyes” stuck on top with mini glue dots.
The pirate’s hat was the side of the decorative label punch, flipped horizontally.
The boat was a large oval punch cut off across the top (Soft Suede card stock). I cut the mast, the sail and ‘the plank’ freehand. And a white Signo pen was perfect for drawing on the crossbones (no skulls for me).
Mr Artistic Controller was most insistent that the card had to say “Ahoy, me heartie!”, not “Happy Birthday”. Given that my stamp collection doesn’t quite stretch to pirate messages, I wrote in on in pen. (I’m still not convinced I spelled ‘heartie’ correctly but what can you do?!?)
The frame for the message is a modern label punch and the white is a word window punch.
There you go – our owl pirate card!
Caro x
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