Special Card

[**Shirley**]

Happy Easter Everyone.

Looking to make a Grandad 100th Birthday Card. I need to make something really special. My insperation as gone. Does anyone have any ideas in their gallery that I can look at please? Shirley

[DJG]

There are lots of number cards here
http://www.ukscrappers.co.uk/boards/...d.php?t=175562 that might give you some ideas

[**Shirley**]

Thanks Doreen, I am thinking of doing a No. card for daughter to give but I am looking for something outstanding that I could then add the Nos to. I do have one simple idea in my head but really want to make this one special.

Shirley

[elwoodsusanm]

Did he used to play sports or have hobbies? Maybe he likes flowers if he was a gardener!

[garw]

what about something from the year he was born or maybe a book card with events over the years
karen

[LesleyN]

This link might help you with ideas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1909. I see that in 1909 Louis Bleriot was the first person to fly across the English Channel.

Or this one for events that happened on a particular day.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/

[JanW]

For my Dad's 80th instead of an ordinary card I made an 8" x 8" book and used copies of old photo's of my Dad when he was little, his family, his motorbike, his wedding, his war record etc. and used favourite quotes or sayings of his. I also used Wordle (http://wordle.net/) which is a programme you can paste text into and it creates a sort of text design which is excellent for backgrounds. I used words that related to what my Dad is e.g father, brother, husband, grandad etc. and then used words of things or places that mean something to him etc.

He was so thrilled with it and it was passed around at his party. I also left some blank pages at the end to add photos of his party.

Hope this may help to boost your inspiration.

Jan

[BUTTERCUP1617]

For my Dad's 80th instead of an ordinary card I made an 8" x 8" book and used copies of old photo's of my Dad when he was little, his family, his motorbike, his wedding, his war record etc. and used favourite quotes or sayings of his. I also used Wordle (http://wordle.net/) which is a programme you can paste text into and it creates a sort of text design which is excellent for backgrounds. I used words that related to what my Dad is e.g father, brother, husband, grandad etc. and then used words of things or places that mean something to him etc.

He was so thrilled with it and it was passed around at his party. I also left some blank pages at the end to add photos of his party.

Hope this may help to boost your inspiration.

Jan

Great site, thank you

Tracey

[**Shirley**]

Thank you so much everyone. Sorry I have taken so long getting back to you. But I have had major computer problems. Still loading my old programmes.

For my Dad's 80th instead of an ordinary card I made an 8" x 8" book and used copies of old photo's of my Dad when he was little, his family, his motorbike, his wedding, his war record etc. and used favourite quotes or sayings of his. I also used Wordle (http://wordle.net/) which is a programme you can paste text into and it creates a sort of text design which is excellent for backgrounds. I used words that related to what my Dad is e.g father, brother, husband, grandad etc. and then used words of things or places that mean something to him etc.

He was so thrilled with it and it was passed around at his party. I also left some blank pages at the end to add photos of his party.

Hope this may help to boost your inspiration.

Jan

What a great site - will certainly have a play about. Thanks Jan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1909[/url]. I see that in 1909 Louis Bleriot was the first person to fly across the English Channel.

Or this one for events that happened on a particular day.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/
Today 09:29 AM

Great sites as well Lesley. Guess I am going to be busy. Hope computer will behave now

Shirley