Sixty .... at last!

Afternoon All,

I hope you are enjoying the weekend whatever you're doing and whatever weather your experiencing. Here it has been a rainy day and the garden is looking all the better for it ... the plants were all needing a really good drink!

Here's my share for today.

Why 'sixty ... at last'? This story will not spare my blushes but I can only blame it on the fact that my grey matter is getting on a bit. Last year I had a senior moment and got it into my head that it was my little brother's 60th birthday on 20th May ...

... and happily created this card to send off to him, and blogged about it here. You've guessed already, I'm sure ... I got it wrong :(  Fortunately, Colin saw the funny side, even though, as he put it, I was making him old before his time! Of course it was all over the family grapevine and I did have to take a fair bit of ribbing from my three other siblings.  So this year Colin really is sixty, at last!

For the design of today's card, I've used a sketch found on a recently discovered site, Retro Sketches.

As you can see, it's a sketch for one of the older challenges but I thought it was a perfect starter for this card.

It's a simple enough wee card to make. The Kraft base card measures 5½" x 4". The embossed panel is a snippet from an earlier testing session. Because, I wanted to spell out the word sixty, I cut 5 strips of the striped paper, about 2½" long x ½"wide, to make the pennants. The EM printed the phrase as needed on his label maker. They were a bit finicky to cut out but fitted perfectly on the white card candy. Some black/white baker's twine to 'string' the pennants up and wrap round the panel, and the matted sentiment, and the front is finished.

The inside has a panel of white card, bands of striped paper and a die-cut sentiment label left over from another project.

The Back

Materials used:

• Kraft Notecards
• Snippets of smooth white card and black card (for matting the greeting)
• Spellbinders M-Bossabilities Nobility, Design B
• Crafts Too Designer Paper Pack - snippets of black/white striped design
• White Card Candi
• White/Black Baker's Twine
• Anita's Foiled Die Cut Sentiment

Challenges I'm submitting this card to are:

Allsorts Challenge - Week 54 - Card for a man or boy

Hiding in My Craft Room - #45 - Super Scraps Saturday

One Stop Craft Challenge - Monochrome

And lastly, Pixie's Crafty Snippets Challenge - 19 - no new snippets were created but a few old ones were used up :)

Okay, I'm off for another play in the craft space, after I've tidied up the table which is a mess ... how can the making of one wee card create such a mess ... it's a mystery!

Take care and enjoy the rest of Sunday.

Happy Crafting,