While I had the Sail Away stamp sitting on my awesome crafting desk (thanks, honey!) I made one more card:

• Sailing Away and Thank You Kindly stamp sets
• Whisper White, Poppy Parade and Marina Mist card stock
• Early Espresso Classic ink pad
• Marina Mist and Poppy Parade Classic ink refills
• Aquapainter
• Early Espresso Baker’s twine

Don’t you love that twine?  It’s mail-worthy!!  Stampin’ Up! calls it Bakers Twine, but I think it looks pretty nautical, and I’m sure it will find a spot on many cards.  As will this sailboat, which has turned out to be much more fun than I anticipated.

Funny thing, but I’m not a huge fan of the wind.  I know it doesn’t make much sense to rapsodize about the romance of sailing when you don’t like wind, but contradiction is my middle name.  However, I would never wish the trade winds away because if you don’t have trades you have icky sticky humidity.  I just want those trade winds to be reasonable…gentle and soothing and cooling, not gusting and blowing sand and dirt and my hair every which-a-way.  Is that so much to ask?