If you read my blog regularly, you might remember I borrowed the Vintage Type dies by The Greetery from a friend to create this card. Before I returned them I die cut several from black cardstock, and here is the first of them. They make for a great masculine card, and this one is off to a very close friend of ours.
I love black and gold on kraft cardstock so used that to die cut the mat with the Crimped Frame from The Greetery. The sentiment is from Just My Type, also from The Greetery.
Photographing this card gave me my first opportunity to show off a birthday gift that I picked up at The Blue House bookstore in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Both Sarah and Tracy gifted me my purchases that day! These are paper pens. They write beautifully, and are almost perfectly flat so they can act as a bookmark as well as a pen. I’m saving them for photo props for the time being.
Here’s a closer look at the typewriter.
It’s off to the Seize the Birthday Challenge where Use Metallics is the special challenge. I’m not sure the typewriter has enough gold to qualify, but Seize the Birthday always allows an “anything goes” birthday card as well. I thought I had lined up the sentiment appropriately, but when I finally realized how it should have been done, it was too late to move it–everything was glued down!
What a great card. I like the gold foil accents, a pop of colour. I think the birthday sentiment looks perfect, just like some paper in a real manual typewriter.
Fabulous birthday gift.
Great. In fact you know I think I like it better than the turquoise version.
This is fabulous, Karen! I always love a typewriter/greeting card and you have elevated this one to an elegant masculine look! I didn’t even notice about the angle of the sediment until you mentioned it!🤫 And those pens are stunning … and intriguing! Hugs, Darnell
That typewriter is so realistic–love it in black with the metallic parts! I’ve never heard of paper pens, but how neat is that?! Great picture props!
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