My brother's birthday is in early May and yet another card was needed, especially as this is a milestone birthday well into retirement! I'm so far behind in cardmaking with the hand recovery that I'll never catch up, it seems!
I had an unfinished card hidden away in my To Do Stash that I came across when looking for a previous unfinished card. The initial basic design layout was by Liz Thayer on this one as well. All the pieces were there to finish, except just a notation of the stamp set used. I particularly liked the Acetate Foil gold patterned paper and gold foil included in the kit with the navy blue. I used all the paper pieces provided, but I also decided to add a black cardstock layer as the cardbase and as another image mat layer.
To start, I masked the image paper with the car outline, and watercolored the background around it with the idea of sky and landscape color tones and dried it with my heat tool. I then stamped the image and sentiment from the Stampin' Up Guy Greetings stamp set with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, using my MISTI to line up the stamp images on my small piece of watercoloring. Next, I colored the vintage car with my Copic markers. Finally, I assembled all the paper layers and popped the acetate pattern off the gold foil. I added some Glitter Enamel Dots, and voila, I was finished!
As my brother has restored vintage and classic vehicles for many years, I am pretty sure he will like this card...even more so if it were a Chevy. Take a peek below inside and out.
Ingredients: Stampin' Up products: Cardstock--Basic Black, Night of Navy, Gold Foil, Shimmer White. Patterned Paper--Fabulous Foil Designer Acetate (retired 2018). Stamps: Guy Greetings (retired 2018). Glitter Enamel Dots (retired 2018). Other: Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. Copic Markers. Artist Loft Watercolor Pan Set (Michaels). Size: 4-3/4" x 6".
