Happy Birthday Adam

Paul and I were invited to the 21^st Birthday of his trainee at work. It was a bit of an honour as it was all his family that were there and it is obvious he thinks a lot of Paul to have invited us. They’d had a collection at work for him and decorated his desk and the office so it was all set up for when he got there the following day. I think he was quite surprised they had done it as they do not tend to go all out on things like that.

I’ve only met him a couple of times but knew he was into sporty cars so cracked open a Kanban card kit that my MIL bought me from QVC a few years ago. I don’t tend to use these kits on their own and prefer to mix with other papers etc but in this case with a bit of personalisation it was perfect as it was. The card blank was printed already but I did find that I had to trim the edges down as the little tabs had ruined the metallic edges of the card. The decoupage layers were die cut but there was too much white in odd places so I trimmed it down  so it was neater. I layered on 3d foam squares and added some peel off lettering to the tool box, his age to the wheels and a sentiment sticker to finish off.

I was quite pleased with it when it had been tweaked a bit but would not have been happy with it if I had used the kit as it was. I have use Kanban papers and cardstock many times but this is the 1^st time that I have used a readymade kit and have to say I was disappointed with the quality of it. However the Birthday Boy loved it and that is all that matters J

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – 6” Square

Image – Kanban

Sentiment – Peel off stickers Docrafts & Dovecraft

Tools – Scissors, 3d foam

Techniques – Decoupage

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• Artistic Inspirations #20 – Anything Goes
• Aud Sentiments  – Any Sentiment
• Bunny Zoe  – Celebration
• Challenges 4 Everybody #10 – Anything Goes
• Crafts 4 Eternity #103 – Anything Goes
• Diva’s By Design – #66 Anything Goes
• Everybody Art – #217 Anything Goes
• Here Come The Boys #42 – Anything Goes
• Hiding in My Craft Room #77 – Anything But Christmas
• Make It Monday #120 –  Anything Goes
• Outlawz Tuesday Colour - CC1225 Colours & Twist Use a Die Cut
• Paper Crafting Journey – Anything Goes
• Paper Pretties - PPMC 71 Black White & choice Celebration
• Pink Elephant  - #180 Anything Goes
• Pixie Dust Studio – Any Celebration
• Simply Create – #15 Anything Goes
• Tuesday Alchemy - #46 Anything Goes
• Whoopsi Daisy – Celebration