I have to do a little explaining about the image I used for today's card. It came from Twinkle Lane Designs and it's the freebie image for the progressive challenge at The Outlawz this month. The image is called "New Car" and my car is definitely not colored to look anything like a new car.
But I wanted to use it as a masculine birthday card for one of the 'older' males in my family and I really didn't want him thinking the card would be a promise of a new car as a birthday gift! :-D So, my apologies to the artist who intended the car to be bright and shiny and sparkling.
I had intended to reverse the image before I printed it so that it would look more like an old, American, left-hand-drive, car and not quite so British but I simply forgot about flipping it. Sigh... as we age, the memory goes. I'm told the memory goes second but I can't remember what goes first. lol
I used my ProMarkers to color the image and I cut it with a die from Tonic Studios. The image came with sentiments (one of which I used - the Happy Birthday part) as well as some add on features. I printed the extra license place, fussy cut it, 'bent' it, added a bit of rust, and glued one corner to the car so that it appeared to be falling off.
The card base is an old one I had in my stash from the "Linen Closet" collection by DCWV. The first part of the sentiment (which is my own and is at the top of the card) was printed and cut with an Avery Elle die. Because I'm using it as a masculine birthday card, I added no embellishment other than the bent license plate which actually gives a bit of 3D texture.
