Birthday Card (Diane 2012)

For many years Diane and I have passed “previously used” birthday cards back and forth for our birthdays. Diane even made a lovely album for us to keep all the cards in. Each year, on our birthday, we received the album to keep at our house until the next person’s birthday. It was always fun to find the card in the album that was the one chosen for that year’s birthday.

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When Diane moved to Ontario passing the album back and forth was impractical so I became the keeper of the album. By this time we had both started to make hand-made cards of various designs so I added a couple of pages to the album to store these.

Diane has made some lovely cards for me over the years. My cards, on the other hand, were well received but not very lovely. And I realized that I wasn’t even enjoying making them.

When I came across the pattern for a fabric postcard I knew my problem was solved. I practiced my string-quilt technique on this one, and added some ribbon and ric rac as embellishments. I used a muslin backing so I was able to write my birthday greeting right onto the card.

As always, Diane gets the first one!