OUR BIRTHDAY BOY

Our grandson hits the magic age of 16 in September and he'll be down to the DMV at 8:00 AM to take his driver's license test, and of course he'll pass. His dad has an older model silver-toned pickup truck that will become his "new" wheels. As far as his parents are concerned, it can't come a moment too soon because they're sick of running him, his twin sister, and younger sister back and forth between school and soccer practice. So, you can guess where I was going with this birthday card!

I started with a bunch of coordinating soccer papers by Authentique that I purchased last year before his 15th birthday. The pickup die set is new to me from Whimsy Stamps ("Truck Die Set" #WSD122) and I die cut the pieces from dull silver vellum and added bright silver accents, which don't show up very well with this photo. I got the idea that I wanted to cut an opening through the card base and background soccer field and slip a black and white photo of him inside the truck. Of course, he's hauling soccer balls and die cut numbers (PTI).

When the card is opened, there's his photo and die-cut sentiment (PTI) with more of the coordinating papers. I found a sheet of paper that's printed grass to use as lining in the black square envelope.

There are a couple of challenges I wanted to share this with:

NBUS because of the brand new truck die:

NBUS: NBUS Challenge #76

And the Pretty Papers challenge. I'm not sure how "pretty" these papers are, but they are definitely coordinated:

Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge: ATG Using Pretty Patterned Paper July 2025

 Challenge