Cards for Boys are Hard

May 14th, 2007

It's my nephew's birthday this week, so of course I wanted to make him a card. Only, boy card are so much harder to make than girl cards, so it took me a bit to come up with an idea. I certainly didn't want to go with plaid designs and duck decoys. I've done a lot of pirate cards and thought he deserved a break from that. But what to do?

Kathy and I brainstormed a geek card and here's how it came out:

Turquoise card with an acetate image of a circuitboard inset.

To make this card, I printed a photo of a circuit board on a transparency. After doing direct-to-paper application of ink on a card, I cut out the center and attached the transparency, holding it in place with these wonderful screw-head brads (LOVE THEM!) and some double-sided tape.

Inside, I printed the following programming code (the language is C): 

void SingTo (string nephew)
{
cout << "Happy Birthday to you!" << endl;
cout << "Happy Birthday to you!" << endl;
cout << "Happy Birthday dear " << nephew << endl;
cout << "Happy Birthday to you!" << endl;
cout << endl;
} 

int main()
{
bool belated;
SingTo("Steven");
if (belated == true) {
cout << "I hope your birthday was great!" << endl;
}
else {
cout << "Enjoy your day!" << endl;
}

Pretty cool, eh? Well, except the part where I misspelled "birthday" in the one I printed...FOUR TIMES!

Oh, well. It's still a cool card. Too bad it didn't photograph better but, as always, I had to take the picture quickly and rush that card out the door. One of these days, I'll plan ahead. Right.

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