Happy Birthday Card for Michael...

It's Michael's birthday today - yeayyyy!!!!! Happy Birthday to the best hubby EVER!

For those of you that don't know, Michael and I met through e-Harmony.  It was so much fun!   One of the things I remember most about corresponding with him before we actually met in person, was being blown away by how he wrote about things.  He was both deep and comical.  He made me laugh and think about things in new ways.  At one point I wrote to him - "you are a rare gem!" and he replied "thanks, most people just say I'm a piece of work."  HA!  I still crack up when I think of that, and every once in awhile I still remark to him that he is a rare gem (cuz he IS!)

So, here is the birthday card I made for him...

and another photo with the custom envelope...

The card is made with a background of gelli printed deli paper (say that three times fast), pasted onto purple card stock.  The words "rare gem" are done by dabbing on some gesso over alphabet masks, and then I added handwriting, gems and thickers to finish it off. 

The handmade envelope was super easy to do.  I just took apart a 6 x 9" manilla envelope and traced it onto a photo torn from a huge coffee table book, cut it out and taped it together.

I'm happy to say he loved it!  Yeayyy!!!

I hope you are having a fabulous Saturday my friends!  Thanks for visiting and I will see you again tomorrow!