As I’ve mentioned, I started a new job back in June and GAF is a really nice place to work. People actually care about people. Not only do we still have a Christmas party and a summer picnic, but every month the CFO and CIO get their departments together to celebrate the month’s birthdays with singing and goodies to eat. So I got the list of birthdays and thought that this is a good place to start working on giving out more cards. So now I’m focused on making birthday cards although it’s not as if I don’t have a fairly major stash already. However, I work in IT so I’ll need far more cards for males than females so I think that may need to be my focus for a while. Which brings me to today’s card.

I know that you have to love this paper. I do and I really do not like grey – it’s smoky slate to be specific. It’s one of the pieces in a limited time offer for Sale-a-bration. It’s called Perfectly Artistic DSP and it’s available only from this Tuesday until February 15th for free with a $50 product order. I think I’ll be ordering myself at least one more pack of this. The good news is that there are only two grey pieces in a pack. 😉

I wanted to let the paper really sing here as well as making a masculine birthday card. I think that the real red “happy” works rather well. That’s from the Hello You dies and the “birthday” is from that incredibly versatile set, Endless Birthday Wishes. As you can see, I’m being good and still using up my retired backgrounds DSP paper for lining the envelope flap. It’s easy to line the outside – just cut a 6 by 2 1/4 inch piece of DSP, put the multipurpose glue onto the envelope flap, add the paper and then cut around with paper snips. Simple and effective.

See you tomorrow,

Liz