Today’s my husband’s birthday — Happy Birthday, Jay! :) He’s already wearing his main present (a tattoo), but I wanted him to have something to open on the actual day. It was just too sad to think he wouldn’t have anything to unwrap, and I needed to keep costs way down as we’re about to go on vacation.
I saw this idea on Pinterest and loved it! Papervine had done a deck of cards for Valentine’s Day, but I thought it would work just as well for a birthday. After all, who doesn’t want to hear why you love them?
I used a new deck of cards, scuffed them up with sandpaper and gave them a rub with a pigment ink stamp pad, concentrating on the edges. I thought the ink might slide a bit and get all over my hands, but it held fast right from the start. One of the extra cards made a nice template to keep punched holes even,and a couple binder rings keeps everything together. (I may replace them with black ones later, we just happened to have these on hand.)
There are great free labels from Cathe at Just Something I Made. (She has them in red, green, black and brown if you want a different look.) Trimmed an eighth of an inch all the way around, I think they were just right.
These also got aged with the stamp pad, then I just wrote out my list one by one.
Some are private jokes.
Other crafters may relate to some of them.
But I hope they all show him why he is just right for me.
(Mojo is our dog, who loves to be the first one to greet his Daddy when he gets home from work.)
Happy birthday, Baby! Wishing you many, many more!
