A Card From Long Ago

This is a post I should have done months ago! Anyways here is one of the first successful cards I've made. It was for my friend Bao's birthday. Looking back, I sure didn't have much to work with then, and the end product was very... lacking.

SideNotes:

• absolutely LOVE the cork alphabet set I used to make the "HAPPY"
• the word "Birthday" is one of the rare instances where I've used my clear alphabet stamp set (Autumn Leaves brand by Katie Pertiet)
• the green strip of cardstock came from K&Co - Brookfield Scrap Pad
• the lonely leaf is stamp I bought in an autumn clear stamp set at Target for $1!!!

I do like the back of the card though. I made 'em much better back then:

To googly or not to googly...

I finished Andy's birthday card... this started out looking really girly, but luckily I man-ified it up a little with all the black and brown, and the owl helped (a big step up from the pink flower & button). I can't wait to see what he thinks of it!

Sidenote:

• Can't believe I got the CUTE owl stamp from AC Moore for only $0.70!!!! On Sale, Baby! They've got a ton more (just as cute) wood-mounted stamps on sale - I've gotta go back!
• I didn't know whether or not to put googly eyes over the owl's orginial stamped eyes. What do you think... I've actually gotta get the picture of the card w/o the googlies from my husband's cellphone... be back with that soon! In the mean time, are the googlies too silly?

I feel....