Thank You Twofer

It really is a small world.  I was emailed by an American blogging friend recently.  They have a friend who I think lives in France, who has a friend who lives in Wales.   Are you still with me? The friend in Wales wanted to pass all his late wife's crafting things onto another crafter who would use them or pass them on to be used.  We live in England, but only just over an hour's drive from the friend in Wales, so my hubby and I drove over to Severn Bridge last Monday and came home with fourteen big boxes full of of various crafting things to sort.  Ten boxes are sorted and I have four to go!  I wanted to make a thank you card for the lovely man who gave me the craft items, using some things I was given.  As his passion is classic cars, I was delighted to find this image in one of the boxes.

The image was from a set of topper cards from Stamped Out For You, 'Sepia Mini Sentiments'.  The topper had a sentiment on, so I chopped off the sentiment and just used the image. The patterned paper was also in one of the boxes, but I don't know the brand as there were a few loose sheets of this design.  The sentiment is a Impression Obsession 'Thanks' die cut.  I used dark brown card for the mats and the sentiment.  As the topper was from a new pack, I'll be sharing my card over in the NBUS challenge.

I am joining in the following challenges with this card:

 NBUS Challenge #83 ~ Use Never-Before-Used-Schtuff

Love Those Pretty Papers February Challenge ~ Anything Goes with Patterned Paper 

  Double D Challenge ~ Vintage/Shabby Chic

Initially, I didn't add any Card Candi to the first card and it looked a bit bare.  I thought the image might look better on a rectangular card so I made a second card.  When I added the Card Candi to this card, I decided to add some to the first card too and I think it now looks more balanced.  So now I have a spare masculine Thank You card for my box of ready-made cards.  I think I will probably send the first one over to Wales.