birthday card Archives

It was my friend’s birthday and I’d not managed to get out and buy her a card. Just before Christmas I’d been given a set to make two Christmas cards as a gift with my Chrochet magazine subscription. I’d really enjoyed making them and as I had some blank cards I thought I’d have a go at making an owl birthday card.

I looked at patterns for motifs and decided on this owl pattern. It was fairly simple and I thought it would make a nice card.

I could have easily sent out my husband to buy a card but I thought it would be much nicer to make a card myself. Then all I had to do was pop on a stamp and my husband could post it for me.

Card making

I have a lot of supplies for card making as I believed it was something that I would enjoy doing. In fact, I didn’t enjoy it much at all. The few cards I did make created a lot of mess to clean up and I was never really happy with the results. I guess I just didn’t have the creativity to make them.

Crochet is something I can do though, and even though it’s not perfect, I don’t feel the urge for perfection as I do with other crafts.

I may even have a go at making some more cards using crochet motifs, I think they make for unusual and creative cards.

They don’t make so much mess either like I did when cutting out lots of pieces of paper and embellishments. And they really don’t take to long to make as well. With a little more practice I think I could get quite good at this. Do you like my owl birthay card, do you think using crochet makes for an unusual card?

My previous sunday snapshot – mandala

This week I had a lovely night out at the Ballet seeing Matthew Bourne’s Romeo+Juliet. Unfortunately, it’s not allowed to take photos so I can’t share any from there. It did inspire me to get my tickets for the next ballet I wanted to see though, and they arrived the other day. So I’m sharing a photo of them and also one of the birthday card that my Little Man made for his best friends birthday.

The Nutcracker

I’m so excited about this. I’m taking my two youngest girls to see The Nutcracker as an early Christmas treat. They will love it! I saw it for the first time only a couple of years ago and it was truly magical. I hope the magic touches my girls too.

The Birthday Card

Birthday card decorated by the Little Man

I was going to buy a card but The Little Man said he wanted to make his own. When my Little Man had his birthday a month ago his friend made him a card and he wanted to return the favour. So he decorated it with his friend’s favourite Roblox game. They don’t go to the same school anymore but often play together on Roblox online.

I think he did a pretty good job considering he rarely wants to do anything crafty or artistic. But then I opened the card and saw the Wow factor. 🙂

Inside the birthday card filled with tons of little shiny jewels

In the corner he is apologising for having no green jewels as he knows his it’s his friend’s favourite colour.

I’m really proud of my Little Man and I know he’s missing out on the Ballet but I really don’t think he would enjoy it as much as the girls so I’m trying to think of a special treat he can have with his Dad (or even both of us.) He’s not the best at sitting still for long periods of time though.