Have you seen the Hey Dude kit made just for men? It was introduced during the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference. It’s a manly kit designed to help out the guys in our life to make cards for us of course. Well I have a house full of guys and figured this was just what I needed to get for them. So I did.
It arrived at least a month ago (before Valentine’s Day) and I put it out for them to explore and use. Well Valentine’s Day came and went – and I said to them – why didn’t you make me a card? They all looked at me like what in the world was I talking about. I said I got you this kit from Stampin’ Up! – Dude! You’re Welcome – it has everything you need to make me a card. Greg says – yeah I opened it – I looked at it and I closed it back up. I didn’t know I was supposed to make a card with it. This would be a good place to use the stamp that says this “#%&@!” – sigh – it didn’t work like I had planned. But now they know how I feel about it and what they should be doing with it and it just so happens that my birthday is today! And I was gone all day Saturday so there was time for them to use the kit without me even knowing about – yes the opportunity to surprise me. And yes this time – Tyler came through – he got out the kit while I was gone on Saturday and put it to use to make my birthday card. And here is the result –
Tyler looked through my stamps for a birthday stamp since the kit didn’t include one that specifically said that. He found Easy Events and used the cupcake from that – it’s stamped in Island Indigo ink – that is what was lying on my craft table.
From the Dude Kit he used what looks to be 4 different postcard pieces – on the base one he used the edge of the Special Occasion stamp and the Basic Gray ink to stamp several times. And then he cut pieces of the other cards and layered them on.
That was my birthday card from the boys! Tyler even cleaned and put away the stamps too!
We actually celebrated my birthday Sunday evening so Kyle could come and join us. I love to have all of the boys with me! Dinner was great – a ton of food though – we took most of it home to eat as leftovers. And my favorite Chocolate Raspberry Truffle ice cream from Bruesters!
I have been home all day today doing mostly nothing – keeping up with birthday messages from Facebook friends, and playing a little in my craft room. Tonight I’ll go to Panera for the My Digital Studio digi crop with the girls.
Thank you for all my birthday wishes!
