My great-uncle is turning 90 and I wanted to make a special card to celebrate. Today's Ways to Use It challenge was to use cars on our cards. This is one of the few car stamps that I own, so it worked out well for my classic uncle.
I like to make tri-fold cards--though I usually do it with a sheet of 12x12 DSP. This was is a regular card fold with another 4.25 (plus 1/2 inch added for tape) tacked on the front.
Since it was for a car challenge, I wanted to do something special with the car. It mostly worked to make it look like it was going through a tunnel. The car is drawn at an angle that doesn't work perfectly for this idea.
The sentiment page (another color-catcher paper from a brayering project long ago) was fun to do. I happened to see the nonagenarian definition on FB last week, so I printed it on the computer and added the You've Got This stamp.
I was going to crop the front oval, but decided to leave it after I started assembling the card. Now I'll just have to find a bigger envelope.
Change the sentiments and it's a great Father's Day card too.
Date: Thursday, June 4, 2015 GMT Views: 1939
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Fri, Jun 05, 2015 @ 4:23 AM
Oh my goodness this is fantastic! Love the great fold and the very classic antique car. You have created a super card for your uncle who is turning 90 years young. Thank you for making a card for my Car challenge!
Really cool... looks like the car is driving out of the card!
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