A Birthday Card All About the Past!

I was looking for some mojo for a theme idea to make my son, Mark, a birthday card.  I checked out my Splitcoaststamper Challenge List, which got my juices flowing.  I found a fun card theme from the Free 4 All Challenge... all about the little things that make life fun.  I started reminiscing  about all the fun times and events in Mark's life while he was growing up, which led to this memory.  One year I made him a treasure chest birthday cake, and we had a Pirates Treasure Hunt around the neighborhood to look for pirate booty.  That was the same year that he and his sister became the cutest pirates ever on Halloween. 

I had some old October Afternoon patterned papers featuring a pirate theme and I thought the paper and the challenge would go well together. . .a pirate theme it would be!   I got further inspiration for the layout from a Sketch Challenge and a Featured Stamper card, and several other challenges lent me ideas as well.  Take a peek at my finished pirate/ treasure card below with its inside card design and the birthday treasure verse that I composed to keep up with the theme!

Ingredients List:

Stampin' Up products:  Cardstock: Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Kraft.   Mini Gold Tinsel Trim (2018 Holiday).  Silver stars (Copic colored red).  Ink: Baked Brown Sugar (edge distressing).  Other:  Patterned papers:  October Afternoon Treasure Map Collection/ X Marks the Spot.  Echo Park: Kate Lowercase Alphabet dies.  Chatterbox sentiment/ verse.  Size: 4-3/4" x 6".