A friend’s husband, Robin, who is a “man’s man” and likes motorcycles, fishing, football, etc., \u00a0is turning 57. \u00a0As we get older, I think more and more we need to infuse our birthdays with a little humor. So for his card, I started by looking up a funny saying that would go with an awesome digi stamp by Little Blue Button Stamps, called “Simon on Bike.”<\/a>\u00a0 I found one that reads, “Life begins at __, … but it gets exciting at 120!”<\/p>\n

<\/a>For the sentiment, I printed it out on my Canon PIXMA MX922 Wireless Color Photo Printer with Scanner, Copier and Fax<\/a>\u00a0in the perfect shade of green to match the papers I wanted to use.\u00a0\u00a0For the card base, the patterned papers, the cut-a-parts, and even the twisted blue raffia are all from the Jillibean Soup card kit called, “Birthday Bisque”. The vintagey feel seemed well-suited\u00a0for this card.<\/p>\n

I colored Simon on Bike with the following Copic colors: Skin: E50, 51, and 53; Hair: E 55, 74\u00a0and 59; Jeans: B93, 95, and 97; Tires: C9; Jacket: C7; White T-shirt: C1; Chrome of bike: C1 and 3; Red of motorcycle: R39 and 89. \u00a0I also made some glare lines on his glasses with a\u00a0White Sakura Gelly Roll Pen<\/a> and I added\u00a0Glossy Accents<\/a>\u00a0over the glasses as well as the metal parts of the bike.<\/p>\n

The trickiest part of this card was fussy cutting the image. The narrow and inside sections were difficult to cut, but I managed with a sharp X-ACTO #2 Knife<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42 After the detailed cutting, I popped up the whole image using foam adhesive, with the front wheel straddling the raffia ribbon to make it look like it was even further forward.<\/p>\n

The following is a share of this card:<\/p>\n