Graduation card with a Volkswagen Bulli

Hello everyone, I'm here with a graduation card that I made for my younger nephew (Mátyás). This June he finished the elementary school. The school system in Hungary is different. Kids stay in elementary school until they are 14, and then they go straight to high school. 

I put my older nephew (Zsigmond) to a car on his graduation card. So I asked Mátyás what kind of car he wanted to drive. And he said Volkswagen Bulli. Luckily I have an old camper die from My Favorite Things which looks like a Bulli. So I used that to create the Bulli. The only challenge was making the Volkswagen logo. For this I used a special die set from Simon Says Stamp, I haven't found on their website, so probably it's discontinued. What a pity! Because it is not just a simple circle die set, you are able to cut out thin rings with it in many sizes. I used the smallest ring die and I put two V letters to the middle. For the letters, I used the Sizzix Thinlits die, Treat Bag by Tim Holtz (663096).

I cut out the road, the field behind the road and the clouds with another My Favorite Things dies: On The Road, Snow Drifts and Puffy Clouds. 

For the road signs I used Stampers Anonymous Noteworthy stamp set by Tim Holtz (CMS446) and the Sizzix embossing folder, Lumber 3D Texture Fades by Tim Holtz. I inked the embossing folder with brown Distress ink, I put a watercolour paper inside, then I ran it through my Sizzix Big Shot. Then I spritzed with water, which resulted that the embossed lines remained dark but the other parts turned light brown.

When it was totally dry I inked the texts on the woodgrain paper with black Archival ink (Black Soot). Then I cut out the shapes with the Tonic Studios Trimmer. 

The colour of the sky is Tumbled Glass, the field is Mowed Lawn. I spritzed the inked surface with water.