I'm a girl - I like making girly cards - flowers are my speciality :) I do tend to struggle when making male cards and especially teenage boy cards. I always seem to stay safe and use large letters to spell out their names or numbers in 'boy' colours to identify their age.
So today I challenged myself to come out of my safety zone - to make a card for a teenager using no ages and names.
I did intend to do step by step photographs but the best laid plans and all that - the camera battery went flat as soon as I took the first photograph.


Cut a square of striped paper, rectangle of spotted paper and the large circle was made by drawing around a jar lid and the bottom of a glass. Doodle and ink around all of the edges and glue onto a card blank. Cut a star from patterned paper, tie embroidery thread around the chipboard button and glue in place. Use the alphabet stamps to make letter tiles to spell out Happy Birthday and add a thin strip of black and white doodle striped paper.
Hey Presto - a card for a teenage boy that doesn't have
golf clubs, a 1970s footballer or a sailing boat on it!
Happy Cardmaking, love from Andrea xx
this is lovely
Posted by: joy | September 13, 2007 at 06:36 AM