Good Evening.
Living here in our retirement village is a lovely friend who is turning 80.
He is a true gentleman, and it was a pleasure to make this card for him to
celebrate this special milestone birthday.
I sponged around the card base and snippets of cardstock for the script layer, greeting and car
bases with distress ink. I had stamped the script with Walnut D.I., but I felt it was too dark, so
I covered it with vellum, attached with brads. The cars, gentleman and '80' were cut from
snippets of bronze mirror card, left over from my Christmas card-making marathon.
The inside of the card continues the 'classic' theme.
Challenges I would like to enter :-
Creative Knockouts #512 - Celebrations
Cut It Up #294 - Anything Goes
Double D - Anniversary or Birthday (optional - use bronze)
Dragonfly Dreams - Planes, Trains and Automobiles
I Spy With My Little Eye #10 - Something Old and/or Something New (the 'Happy Birthday' stamp is new, the dies are very old)
Paper Funday #61 - Anything Goes (optional Celebrate)
Snippets Playground #471 - Celebration
Unicorn #94 - Birthday
Dies - Marianne LR 0198; Couture Creations Exquisite Gentleman; Cuttlebug Olivia
Stamps - Stampin' Up Go To Greetings, Peaceful Moments; Darkroom Door Script
Inks - Ranger Distress Ink Gathered Twig, Walnut
Brads, Vellum, Bronze mirror card - from my junk stash
Hugs,
Jennifer. x
P.S. I apologise if the main paragraph is 'weird'. In my draft it appears normally formatted, but in my preview it is weird. I have tried for ages to correct it, but to no avail, so have just decided to 'publish' as is.
Perfect card for an older gentleman.
ReplyDeleteThanks for coming to play in the Snippets Playground. See you up in the treehouse for a party later xxx
Ooh, that bronze is gorgeous on this vintage style card! Such a wonderful celebration; I'm sure he loved it! Thanks for sharing with us at Cut It Up! ~Katrina
ReplyDeleteI am sure he so appreciated the card, it's such a stylish card with the vintage car and metallics. Thanks so much for playing along at "I spy with my little eye!
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Ellibelle's Corner
Fabulous masculine card love the bronze die-cuts and script background.Thank you for joining us at Dragonfly Dreams.
ReplyDeleteCarol x
Oh, my, those dies are absolutely wonderful and I love everything about your classy card for a classy gentleman. Thank you so much for sharing with us at Double D!
ReplyDeleteGreat card. Thank you for joining our Cut it Up "Anything Goes" challenge.
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Larelyn (CIU owner)
Oh wow, I do love this card! And what a great idea to 'tone down' the panel with vellum. That's a tip to remember here! Wonderful car dies especially!
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Di xx
Kanjer van een kaart. Leuk dat je meedoet met onze challenge bij Creative Knockouts
ReplyDeleteGreat card Thanks for joining us at Creative Knockouts
Creatieve Groetjes Claudia
Vanaf heden geef ik workshops en verkoop ik mijn kaartjes via mijn FB groep
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Great card! Thank you for playing at Dragonfly Dreams Challenge!
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