Vintage Car

Next week sees my teenage son reach 19, where have all those years gone?  He's been lucky in that here in Fife, regardless of when Easter actually is, the School/College Easter holidays tend to fall around his birthday - in fact he was born Easter weekend in the Chinese Year of the Rabbit so I suppose he could be the Easter Bunny! 

The 3rd of April is an important date in this household, as well as it being our son's Birthday it is also the 36th anniversary of the Battle of Grytviken (King Edward's Point) at the start of the Falklands War.  My husband was one of the 22 Royal Marines from HMS Endurance and NP8901 who were defending South Georgia against an Argentine invasion.  Unfortunately he won't make it to the reunion next Saturday but no doubt we will have a few catch up phone calls to make up for it.

With it being our son's Birthday I, obviously, definitely needed to make a card and, due to the fact that he is learning to drive, had already decided to try and incorporate one of my car dies into it.  When I saw this week's Freshly Made Sketches Challenge I had a wee smile to myself as it fitted perfectly with what i had in mind.

The car is paper pieced from a Sweet Dixie die called "Vintage Car", some irridescent sequins have been used as the headlights.  The scarlet red card is a gorgeous Craft Perfect Satin (matte) metallic - very stroke-able!!!  The embossing folder is Darice's "Diagonal Stripe" & Happy Birthday stamp is from Penny Black's "You're Retro" stamp set.