A Birthday Celebration

It’s a dark and cold Monday morning here, but the fall chill we’ve had for the last three days isn’t supposed to last long. We had a lovely weekend, but I have no photos to show for it. I do have a card to share, however, for three different challenges. I made this card for one of our good friends who recently turned 70. He enjoys good food and good wine, and his wife hosted a wonderful party for him at a local restaurant. One of the highlights of the evening was seeing their children who now live and work in NYC and Denver, CO. Matt and their son, Ben, were best friends all through elementary school. They forged different paths come middle school (Scouts vs. sports), but we’ve maintained a lasting friendship with his parents.

Although I knew I wanted to use Papertrey Ink’s “Uncorked” stamp set, the card I had in mind is a far cry from the one I ended up with. Nonetheless, I’m quite happy with the final result. I trimmed off the top of a ready-made tag to hold the wine bottle (embossed in gold) and the wine glasses (die cut from patterned vellum). After embossing the sentiment, I felt the card needed “a little something” so I added a few score lines to the Scarlet Jewel card before adhering the tag and rounded the top corners.

For the inside greeting, I die cut some numbers from Memory Box with gold adhesive paper from PTI, and embossed a sentiment from “Big Birthday Wishes,” also by PTI.

I’m entering this card in three challenges:

Time Out’s Quotation Challenge, focusing on the “wine in our hands:”

Seize the Birthday: 

And last, but not least, Simon Says Wednesday challenge: Stamp It! in celebration of their annual Stamptember event: