Classic Car

The month of January flew by. Tracy and I both had an upper respiratory infection that lasted 10 days. Shortly after I recovered, I left with a wonderful group from my church for the Southern Lights Conference on St. Simons Island in Georgia. As it was last year, the conference was fabulous—uplifting and inspiring messages about faith during these very difficult times in our country.

The three day trip ended up taking six days—the first cancellation for Sunday afternoon’s flight arrived on Friday night in anticipation of the huge winter storm that created havoc in much of the south, midwest and eastern seaboard. The subsequent cancellations were also a result of that storm, but frequently were because American Airlines didn’t have the crews to fly the planes and/or the planes weren’t where they needed to be. On Tuesday we finally drove from St. Simons to Charlotte, NC (no flights our way were leaving Jacksonville, FL), got there in time for our flight to Rochester, only to have it cancelled. In the end, half of us flew to Buffalo and the rest of us to Syracuse on Wednesday. 

All that to say, this is a card for the man who drove us wherever we needed to go during our six day adventure. When he volunteered to be a driver, he had no idea he’d be hustling up the highway to Charlotte most of the day on Tuesday.

The retro car die is one I’ve had in my stash for years and years, Classic Car, by Savvy Stamps. I die cut it from watercolor paper, masked off portions of it so I could have a red car with a black roof. I saw a car much like this when we were in Paris last spring, and have been seeing them regularly here. If it’s still an option when I next need a car—this will be it!

I added the car to a Stitched Rectangle die by Simon Says, and added a sentiment from the Greenery’s Sentiment Suite: Thank You.

This week’s challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More is Die Cuts or Stencils, so this retro car is headed to their gallery.

Hope it’s warmer where you are than it is here!