I meant to make some masculine birthday cards at the weekend, but as you’ll have presumably noticed over the last few days, they seem more feminine. I did have some success though and here’s one of them. I love the Going Places DSP stack.

I selected a piece of DSP from the stack and then pulled the rest of the colours from that – mossy meadow and hello honey. The paper is beautiful but with a black background it’s rather dark so I wanted a big banner. This one is 2 inches tall which made it perfect for using with the triple banner punch. I cut out the happy from Hello Honey using the Hello You dies and once I’d figured out the placement, stamped the birthday from Endless Birthday Wishes in the archival basic black. After I’d stamped it, I glued the happy onto the banner using the 2 way glue pen. I love that it doesn’t ever ooze glue when I press it down. I matted the DSP with a piece of mossy meadow and glued that to a hello honey card base.

The banner is popped up on dimensionals and the tail of it extends slightly over onto the hello honey. It really is a super sized banner! For the envelope, I embossed the flap with the Lucky Stars TIEF.

I’m taking this card to work to add to my stash there. On Friday I had lunch with one of our fairly new hires and during the course of the conversation about weekend plans, he said that Friday was his birthday. I was so happy that I had an appropriate card to give him. That’s happened to me twice so far this year so I feel that I need to get a few more just in case cards ready.

See you tomorrow,

Liz