18th Birthday Red Car

I was asked to make this card for a friend to give to his nephew for his 18th Birthday, he chose the image of the car which was a decoupage image so I was a bit limited in what i did as my colour scheme had to include red and as it was a card for man I couldn't include my normal sort of embellishments (flowers, gems, bows etc) so used a few challenges to inspire me on where to go with this one.



Product used:

• Papers: Paper Adventures (red) and HOTP (Black - Not 100% sure on this one).
• Decoupage image: no scissors required (although i did still trim it a bit).
• Background to image and numbers stamped using hero art stamp.
• Letter and numbers: cut using cuttlebug dies.
• 18th mat cut using nestabilites.
• Border cut using martha stewart punch.
• Embellishments:Grossgrain ribbons, pewter brads.
• Tools used - Cuttlebug machine and dies, Spellbinder dies, Black Soot distress ink, Smokey grey Versafine ink.
  

I cut the papers and mats to size, stamped the mats and edged all of them with black soot distress ink. I prepared the border strip using the punch and added a layer of red ribbon and a narrower layer of black ribbon and assembled the layers adding brads to border strip. I cut some nestability spiky circles in black and silver and used them off set behind the may for the numbers to create a mechanical look and finally cut and added the name to card.

I'm entering this card for the following challenges:

• Colour Create - Red, Back and Off White
• Quixotic - One for the Boys
• Pink Elephant - Sketch
• Crafty Creations - Dimension

Carolyne