A Boy's First Birthday - Give a Poem a Home

Today is my nephew's first birthday.  So, I made sure that one of the cards from my embossing workshop for charity was a birthday card.  I made it gender neutral - a small swap of colours would make this card suitable for either a girl or boy.  I was desperately poking around the web for a last minute digital stamp suitable for a masculine birthday.  I searched for "birthday", "cakes", "cupcakes" (men and food go well, don't they?), "party".  I found lots of great images (and snagged a few) but nothing really caught my eye for my nephew.

Then, I saw one where a critter was peeking out from behind a gift.  It wasn't quite what I wanted but the gift was easily reproduced.  So, I scrounged through my die cuts to figure out what to pair with it.

This is the Santa Bear that I designed on my Bosskut Gazelle.  I may even put his Santa hat back on and use this design on my Christmas cards this year.  I could cut his hat and the gift from patterned papers if I liked.  Here, I used a Stampin' Up! background stamp to create the gift wrap pattern.

Here, we used the embossing just as an accent.  I will be giving this card to my nephew at his party later.  I have written a little First Birthday poem for the inside.  Feel free to use and adapt as necessary!

For the Birthday Boy who has turned one,

Hope your day is really fun.

Call all your friends and family out

To smile and sing and dance about

And give a Birthday Cheer to you

With gifts, of course, and some cake too!