Birthday card with a yellow taxi

Hello everyone, Once again, I would like to show you a birthday card. My friend asked me to make a card for her brother-in-law, who will soon be turning 40. He is a taxi driver, so I decided to put him in a yellow car. 

The background

For the sky part, I chose Salvaged Patina and Tumbled Glass, for creating the road I chose Hickory Smoke and Pumice Stone. Then I spritzed with diluted Vintage Photo the whole background and in the end I applied diluted Antique Linen paint to the surface.

The car

For making the car, I used the Sizzix Road Trip Thinlits die by Tim Holtz (666288). I cut the car from white watercolour paper and I coloured every piece with the following Distress inks: Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Pumice Stone, Scorched Timber. I coloured the tyres separately with Black Soot marker. Yes I still have this and it still works!

The signs

For the speed limit sign I used two different sized circle dies. I coloured red the bigger then I glued the smaller on the top. I have found the number dies in an old My Favorite Things set. I chose green paper for my text because in Hungary many road signs are green. The text was in a Stampers Anonymous stamp set, Noteworthy by Tim Holtz (CMS446). I stamped the text with embossing ink and heat embossed with White embossing powder.

The clouds

These are also from a My Favorite Things die set, Puffy Clouds.