My biggest challenge is creating a birthday card to suit the personality of my grandchildren and every year gets trickier. I have 6 grandsons aged 3-13, and only one grand daughter, who will turn 8 in March and I find the older they get, the harder it is to come up with suitable cards for the boys.
Mr 13 lives on the coast, where the favourite leisure activities are outdoors, of course. Surfing, skateboarding, basketball & scooters, and indoors he is obsessed with checking his phone and i-pad for messages. He sounds pretty normal - right?
Lying in bed one night recently, it came to me that I could attempt a 'graffiti wall' card, so I was quite excited to give it a try, using an easel card. I do always try to come up with a different fold as well, particularly for this family with 3 kids who keep their cards in a treasure box and when they were younger took them to school for "show & tell". That's the way to a Gran's heart!!!
The card front was made twice, so I was glad I'd used the Stamparatus to position the stamps. I texture embossed the card front first time around before heat embossing and it was patchy. It may have been alright, but I wasn't happy.
A big selection of stamp sets, including a retired one, were used in the making of this card!
