Cards for my birthday boy

You would think that, as a card maker I would always have cards ready  for my own children’s birthdays!  But again and again I get to the night before and think, “Oh no, I don’t have a card ready!”  For the girls there are always some pretty cards in the stash that I could use, but they have usually seen and maybe critiqued them for me, so what I really want is one designed especially for them.  For my boy I don’t even have any in the stash, as I don’t own many boy stamps, only one set actually, By Land.

So this year, true to form the night before the birthday arrives, I am about to go to bed and I realise, no card!  I cannot use By Land again, and besides one of my daughters used it for her card. (below)  My solution was to make a scruffy skate theme card for my skateboarding eight year old.  It came together surprisingly quickly and I popped it in with the gift.  The next day he started opening his presents, reading every card before opening and examining every gift.  It was only when he came to the one from my husband and I that I realised that the card was there, but I hadn’t written a word in it…