Birthday Cruiser

One of my dearest long time friends enjoys traveling the world via cruise ships. When I learned she would be away on a cruise to Norway during her birthday, I thought it might be fun to do a travel themed birthday card for her.

I was happy to find several cute travel themed images in Doodlebug Designs "I Heart Travel" Collection that would be perfect for my card. I picked up the svg cutting files for the suitcase, passport and cruise ship images from this collection from the Lori Whitlock store. The world map on the front of the card was created as a print and cut file using an emoji image found on Emojipedia.

 Inspired by a  cruise ship box card I saw on the Simply Crafty SVGs website I wanted to try a sliceform version using the cute Doodlebug cruise ship image. 

I started by paper piecing the Doodlebug cruise ship in three separate layers, then sliding them into the sliceform base. I added  water waves to the first layer of the sliceform and a round background with clouds as the fifth last layer.

Views from the top and the side more clearly show the  five layers of the sliceform base. The svg cut file for the sliceform base template was also purchased from the Lori Whitlock Shop. Lori's step by step video tutorial makes this easy to assemble and I love that it can be customized as you please.

I really had fun putting this card together. It's always nice when an idea for a card that you imagined turns out just as you had hoped! Looking forward to trying out even more different ways to use this versatile sliceform base to make fun pop up cards.