Actually a 'manly' birthday card

So I got out my creative juices and came up with this card for my brother. I have confirmation from my husband that it is acceptably manly.

I used the retired set In The Wild, well, because I have it. I got the template for the faux postage here but I used regular paper instead of acetate for the stencil (the acetate I've seen is really expensive). I also saved it to my computer and changed the numbers to 52 to reflect current postage :)

I stamped the image in black and then used pastels to colour the squares. I tried stamping in Versa Mark but didn't like the look, the giraffe wasn't bold enough. To finish off the postage I cut it out with pinking shears, it turns out that you can actually get postage sissors but that just seemed a bit excessive to me!

I sponged all over the orange CS with orange ink to add some interest. I'm not sure of the paper colours since they are from a craft store and the brads are from the same store. Needed to use up my old stock of generic stuff.