About a week ago, it was my youngest sister, Jessica's birthday. For the past couple of years, I have made her a birthday card. This year, she expected no less, and she put in a request: a beach theme. This was a little unusual to me, considering her birthday is in February. Since I hadn't made the card yet, I made a mental note of her request and brainstormed some ideas.
Of course, I procrastinated until an hour before I was supposed to leave to meet my family for dinner. A beach is not a beach without the ocean, so I used paper in teal and blue to make an ocean with waves by cutting the paper with crinkly scissors. I then added the sticker words "Happy Birthday" to fill in the dead space of the ocean.
My favorite part of the front of the card is the sun. I LOVE my Fiskars circle hold punch! I used this to make the center of the sun, the freehandedly cut the triangles for the rays. I thought about adding some sea gulls, but time did not give me that choice.
Instead of a traditional "Happy Birthday" message inside, I used a quote that talked about the beach. I put the sticker on the same color paper that I used as the sun, and then I added a cute teal brad.
Over the summer my sisters and I took this underwater picture in the pool with my Olympus Stylus 850 SW camera. (It has been the best birthday present to myself!) I backed the photo on a printed tag by K&Company (Happy Trails Tag Pad.) These tags are also great for journaling. Some of them even have quotes on them. I added some teal scrap paper left over from the waves to the side of the photo and a white sand castle brad to the bottom right corner.
While my mom thought the card wasn't so "beachy" ('Where is the sand?' she asked) Jessica loved the card, and I loved making it for her. I think she looks forward to her birthday cards even more than the present that I give her. Happy Birthday, sis!
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