Make Today Ridiculously Awesome!

I usually try to personalize all my birthday cards towards hobbies, interests, etc. and I struggle with masculine birthday cards, especially for my son. 

He's an Army veteran, has a degree from Le Cordon Bleu in pastry and loves video games (classic and current) and playing guitar. But when it comes to a card for him, I'm often stumped.  His birthday is coming up this week and I decided to go with something more neutral  "Ridiculously Awesome" . A fun stamped set designed by one of our Million Dollar Sales demonstrators Ronda Wade.  If you've never checked out her FB page "Creating for Christ" I encourage you to do so.  

This is a pretty simple card.  I did delve into some of my retired stash and used some rivets that I inherited with a "lot" of Stampin' Up!© items I purchased from a retiring demonstrator before becoming one myself.  I also received a Crop-a-dile, in that stash,  that Stampin' Up! used to carry.  I may do a video on this, for those of you who also may have this in your stash of tools.  

These rivets actually matched one of our new In Colors "Misty Moonlight".  I used some of the 6 x 6 In Color DSP. One side has a wood texture look to it and the other has words, all in another language.  I thought he might enjoy trying to figure out what it says.  

The sentiment layer and background layers are die cut with the "Rectangle Stitched dies"  and then popped up with Dimensionals.

The inside is stamped with a saying by A. A. Milne from our "Rustic Retreat" stamp set "You Are Braver Than You Believe, Stronger Than You Seem, Smarter Than You Think and Loved More Than You Know" (emphasis mine).  It's a great masculine stamp set. I also used the Happy Birthday from the stamp set. 

I hope the simplicity of this card inspires you too.  If you are interested in a video on the use of a Crop-A-Dile I'd love to hear that in the comments. 

Thank you for stopping in!

Sharon

Images: Stampin' Up!©