Classic Automobiles

 

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

Until next time, thank you for visiting,

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.

Black and Silver Snowflakes

 

Hello fellow crafters. I guess you didn't expect 2 posts in 2 days, 

especially after such a long break.

As I have said in previous posts, I have a personal rule being that I

never make any 2 cards the same. However, at times like Christmas when

when I, like so many other card-makers, need to make many cards, I 

will create 2 or even occasionally 3 similar cards...such is the 

case with the following 2 cards.

These 2 cards were sent to friends who do not know each other, and both

of whom do not know I have a blog, so will not see this.

The grey-looking plain paper on both cards is actually a beautiful

shimmery pearlised silver, a pack of which I have had for many

years. I put a tiny dot of glitter glue in the centre of each

snowflake on the black paper, but as usual with

most glitter it does not photograph well.

Papers - Papermania A Christmas Carol; Echo Park A Gingerbread Christmas; 

Sentiment banners - Craft Creations Ltd 

Glitter glue - Ranger Stickles Diamond Dust

Peel-off sticker snowflakes are from my junk stash

Hopefully I will be back soon with some more cards, so until then thank you for visiting.

Stay safe,

Jennifer.  xx