When my friends and I turned 40, we made a point of finding joke cards about getting older for one another. I wasn’t a card-maker then, but if I had been, I would have made a card like this for the guys in our group.
It would have worked perfectly with all the old age pranks. Of course, now that I’m actually 40-something, it seems less funny: The knees that pop, the hairs that are turning grey, the stretch to get out of bed in the morning. I feel like I could be getting close to that old skeleton. :)
This card is for the new linky party theme, Fall'n for Flair, over at Paper Issues. This super cute Star Wars inspired button is from Shelley Haganman’s etsy shop, A Flair For Buttons.
Here’s a close-up of the card:
If you love Fall and love flair, come join us over at Paper Issues. The linky party starts today for all your Fall and/or flair projects and runs through Oct. 6.
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Comments on the hop will be open for two weeks and two winners will be chosen by random draw and announced on Oct. 7 on the Paper Issues blog.
You can find all your card-making and scrapbooking supplies over in the Paper Issues etsy shop, including October Afternoon's new Witch Hazel collection. And everything's on sale. Just use code IZZYB20 for 20 percent off your entire order.
Card supplies:
CS: American Craft
PP: Echo Park
Stickers: Echo Park
Twine: Trendy Twine
Flair: A Flair For Buttons
Ink: Ranger
Font: Copperplate Gothic and Arabic Typesetting
Cute card! Love these buttons!
ReplyDeleteI can't get over how perfectly the Darth flair worked for this card. :) I love it! Definitely a great card for a newly minted 40 year old.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great card! I have also been struggling with the whole 'turning 40' thing. :(
ReplyDeleteThat flair is perfect! What a fabulous card!!
ReplyDeletePerfect card! 40-something is the new 30-something :) That's what I keep telling myself:)
ReplyDeleteThis is ADORABLE!!! I loveeeeeeeee the sentiment and the skeleton!!!!
ReplyDeleteAwesome card. Change out the 50 and you can give it to your guy friends in a few more years. :)
ReplyDeleteHahaha! Very clever...
ReplyDeleteOMG, what a great way to use that skeleton and the star wars button, would never have thought to put them together!! love it!!
ReplyDeleteCOOOOL card!
ReplyDeleteI would so totally frame this
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oh my golly this is just way too cute!!
ReplyDeleteFabulous card! My 40th is rapidly approaching so I'm starting to relate. Love that even though these are Halloween-ish items, they can do double duty on a birthday card too! :)
ReplyDeletehahaha what a great way to use Halloween product!
ReplyDeleteHaha, I love it! Great way to use the Halloween stuff!
ReplyDeleteThis card, and the flair that goes with it made me chuckle!
ReplyDeleteThis is hilarious! But you are just a baby, really!
ReplyDeleteThat's so funny, a great card...I am way on the dark side lol
ReplyDeleteOh how awesome is this?! Love it!!!
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha! Love your sense of humor, Izzy! The dark side sentiment is HILARIOUS!! But if you have a skeleton on your cards for 40-yr-olds, then what do you put on cards for your friends turning 50??? coffins??
ReplyDeleteLOVE this fun card! The Lego flair is perfect.
ReplyDeleteFun -- love it! Great Lego flair...
ReplyDeleteLike the whimsy birthday card.
ReplyDeleteMelissa
"Sunshine HoneyBee"
Love the card! And I think you are a long way off from that old skeleton. :)
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh Izzy! I am heading over to that flair shop right now. How cute is that?! I am over here giggling at your sentiment.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun card. I get the way it seems less funny as 40 hits for yourself. i am almost there and suddenly wonder what everyone who i gave a hard time to before will do in return. I think i may disappear for the weeks surrounding my birthday :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a Super Cute and Cool card!!
ReplyDeleteMigdalia