Well,
he is my rock, only far better than a rock. (he does the cooking!) He
was up so early this morning he didn't have time to open any of his
cards... never mind, he'll be too busy to sneak in here and peek! This
is the card I made him. Both of us had motorbikes and we used to have a
motor-bike shop.
When the girls
were
babies, we lived over it, but the need for a garden and smell of engine
oil drifting up into all the rooms soon made us jump onto the mortgage
boat, and buy our own little home, with a tiny garden and a little later
to where we are now. No more bikes, but John's only got to sniff the
sight of one, and I know he misses them!
Back to the card.
KennyK image. (Yes I
bought this one back in March
BUT It's now the June Freebie HERE! left sidebar when you get there) First I was going to do that acetate thing I did with the
seahorses,
but it didn't quite work out, (Flip the digi and then stick the two
together, and print it out on acetate too, and then fix that together
~but I forgot to put a cord/thread through the middle to attach it to
the card~ so did this version of a sort of gate fold instead, but not.
It's a bit top heavy as it's an 8x8 card, with a 5 and a half x 5 and a
half card used as the topper (Why isn't there a half sign on the
keyboard?) so I've added acetate to the bottom of the smaller card
topper to help stabilise it.
We used to go and watch bike scrambling, (more skilful!) not Dirt Bike racing, but never mind!
I
couldn't think of what papers to use, so didn't! Just black, yellow and
red card, and a bit of embossing, and die cutting (only my old Bigshot
wasted loads of scraps of card, by
not cutting! Grrrr) One of the inside embossing was made using a freebie folder, which came in this months
Simply Cards and Papercraft, which also came with some stamps too!
Of course I've coloured up with ProMarkers (with the tiny tip
addition...the metal tip ones work far better, the others didn't work at
all, but Letraset kindly send me replacements awhile back!) Did hunt
the internet for a coloured picture of this, to give me some idea of
what was what, but could only find a very small one, in mostly grey, so,
went with yellow and red instead.
There's
a little D attachment, to the side of the top card, which I bought in a
gardening store, 3p each, can't be bad! and the 'manly' cord ribbon
came off a bosh carrier bag!
Freebie Fonts: I've used
Cool Dots and
Smarty Pants BTN
there's the link to download, or just google the names. That's it I
think! Happy Birthday John, see you later! Hope to add this to same...
