Happy Birthday Card - October Afternoon

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great week! I had a really busy week and so happy for the weekend.
Between working full time, studying and keeping up with my blog/crafting, it can be exhausting :) I love it though - keeps me on my toes.

Yesterday my husband and I attended a country music concert which benefits the Coastal Conservation Association of Texas. We do not really fish but we are all about the environment, adopting rescued dogs, and conservation. The big headliner was Pat Green but the concert also included Kevin Charles Band, Gene Watson, Sammy Kershaw, and Jerry Jeff Walker. To tell you the truth, I only knew one song out of the whole concert - it was Sammy Kershaw's "She Don't Know She's Beautiful" from 1993. I only listened to country music in the 1990's while I was in high school and college. I mostly like to listen to top 40, latino pop/rock, and salsa/merengue/bachata music since then. I moved to Philadelphia in 2000 for medical school, so definitely did not listen to country music during those 4 years :)
I have been back in Texas since 2004 but just never got back into country music.
Terry (my hubby) had a great time and really likes Pat Green. What I did not know was that it was going to be a 7 hour concert and we were out in typical summer Texas weather the whole time! It rained part of the time and then full sun the other part. So between getting wet and then sunburned, by the end of the night I was TIRED!

Anyway, on to one of this week's projects. My husband's 34th birthday was on June 26th, so I made a card especially for him last weekend. I had to wait until after his birthday to post as he is one of my biggest blog fans and I did not want him to see his special card.

I bought the October Afternoon "Sasparilla" collection earlier this year. I LOVE the cowboy theme and being from Texas, I just had to get it!
My husband is a country boy at heart - he was born in upstate New York but for the most part grew up in East Texas. Refuses to drive anything else other than his pick up truck. Let's just say he feels uncomfortable in my BMW :)

The patterned papers in this collection I thought would work great on his birthday card. I also bought the packaged miscellany pack and little flyers/flags for embellishments.

I really like the patterned paper that is basically a comic strip - how cute is that! It is about the adventures of Dash Dalton. One of the patterned papers was also a denim jean print which works perfect - my husband is definitely a jeans kind of guy.
I also found a cute Dash Dalton Cowboy club card in the miscellany pack and a chipboard sheriff star badge.
One of the little flyers said "Make a Wish" which was perfect for a birthday card.

Here is my finished card:

LOVE how it turned out and I knew my husband would get a kick out of it!

I made my card base using Papertrey Ink cardstock in Enchanted Evening color.
Card base measures 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 which is a standard A2 card size.

I used the denim jean patterned paper as my first layer over my card base. I cut only the top strip of the comic strip patterned paper as I could only fit a small part of comic strip due to the size of my card. I used the comic as my 2nd layer on top of the denim patterned paper.
The ribbon, club card, star, and button are all from the miscellany pack.

Terry really got a kick from his card! I also bought him a new wallet for his birthday which he really needed and we went out to dinner at Fleming's Steakhouse.

After I made this card, I found that twopeasinabucket.com was actually having a project challenge sponsored by October Afternoon. The challenge is to use recent/new October Afternoon products in a project. For those of you that know me, twopeasinabucket is my favorite online scrapbooking supply store! I have not uploaded any projects before onto their gallery.
So I updated my profile on their website and uploaded my birthday card project. If I win, I get a $50 gift certificate!


Thank you for stopping by and I hope you all enjoyed my card! I hope you all have a great week!



Ana



Supplies used:

Cardstock - Papertrey Ink
Patterned paper - October Afternoon
Ribbon - October Afternoon
Embellishments - October Afternoon
Button - October Afternoon
Twine - Papertrey Ink