October birthdays–part 3

I always find making cards for men difficult, but this one seemed to come together quite easily.  The ‘65’ was cut using the Craft Robo and then backed with matt silver paper.  The card blank was embossed using a Sizzix texturz plate, birthday circles  (Set#20 – 656372).

October birthdays–part 2

This time it is a card for my cousin.  Once again, my regular readers will know that my cousin likes all things oriental – this is what I came up with for her this year.

October Birthdays–part 1

This is one that I made for my Aunt.  She loves purple and butterflies (as well as other things, of course).  The butterflies are made in 3 parts, coloured with dorso crayons and then glued to the base design.  I was really pleased with the result and my Aunt was pleased with it too.

More birthday cards

DS celebrated his birthday in September too.  As my regular readers will know,  DS is a bit of slave to brands, so I always try to incorporate a logo somewhere in his card, although this is getting harder & harder to do.

Here are this years cards:

   

DS loved them (phew!)

A leaving card

Good friends of ours were leaving the Netherlands to return home to Columbia.  I wanted to make them a special card and this is what I came up with.  I based my colour choices on blue and white (very Dutch!) and I am pleased to report that they loved it.  The message inside said:  “Good friends never say goodbye, they simply say, see you soon”.

Lest we forget

50

Back in September DH was 50.  DS and I organised a “birthday weekend” for him which included a birthday party.

This is one of the invites – a 50 made from parchment with a cute baby pic.

      

I made him a 50 that lit up!

A 50 from wooden numbers – covered in pics of DH from the 50 years. . . . . . .

. . . . . and we decorated the front window with a big poster of DH as a baby, for all the world to see.

I also made him a scrapbook of his 50 years, with pictures and anecdotes.

Needless to say – he had a wonderful birthday.