Arty Stuff

Eden has been receiving birthday cards made by me ever since she was a young girl. Last year I made a card showing her working as a flight attendant for El Al, Israel's national airline, but this year she has changed direction somewhat and is now an art student at the Holon Institute of Technology.

Mum asked me to show Eden doing arty things on her card. She has been painting, creating collage, making Hebrew letters, and designing stuff on her MacBook, mum said. She also suggested that I include Eden's old white Toyota Corolla on the card.

I showed Eden with an artist's palette in one hand and a paintbrush in the other. She is surrounded by paints and pencils, and some scissors to represent the collage work she has been doing. Next to her is her laptop computer with the Hebrew letters Ayin (pronounced "ah-yeen") and Mem on the screen. They are the initials of her name. I added her car too. Finally, a big red number 25 marks her age.
Eden messaged me to say that she loved the card!

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Crocheting and Painting

Aly and I live in the same city but Aly's best friend lives in the UK. Her friend asked me to make a birthday card for her and I was able to deliver it to the door! Aly loves painting, crocheting, her dogs, Benjie and Rolo, and her family, her friend told me. Benjie and Rolo have already featured on my cards on a number of occasions. You can see them here and here.

I have shown Aly busy crocheting on her card. Benjie and Rolo, the family's much loved spaniels, are to her right and on her left I added a little photo of all the family and a paint palette and brushes to represent her love of painting. 

Aly loved the card and her friend in the UK declared it "amazing!".

"It's that time again" Polly wrote to me. "I would like to order a birthday card." Her husband was turning 64. She requested a papercut card with a big number 64 on it along with the message "Still loving you". She preferred a bottle green paper inlay. I added the heart.

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