It's my brother's birthday on Thursday and, until tonight, I hadn't made a card for him. I knew I wanted to make a golfing themed card, but was lacking inspiration as to how to get it started, until I looked at the sketch on
Taylored Expressions challenge 98:
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I decided to make a gatefold card - this is what it looks like closed (please excuse the paper clips top and bottom to keep it closed to take the photo):
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Iz6HTigI8iDhmD_z0nJEh2GcHK6L4HYtfsGX4Hf-fWcxTdPLbIc1r5VAqbiNlBSR9y0qCH8IS1U-gvl4sVCRu79cuwFc5JWytbRBvTwSPT9_NRnSjUOtKNy0N_PU-xznFMSgB0wLmi4/s400/2010+01+19+david+1.jpg)
The golf bag, clubs and ball are all raised on 3D foam and the main part of the bag is a textured material (I confess that I didn't make this, but bought it as it is). Papers are all BG archaic.
So the textures make it good for
Crafty creations 50: 'textures' challenge. And, of course, it's a birthday card -
Crafty catz 15: 'a birthday card' and Crazy 4 challenges 19: 'birthday'
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and this is the inside - with a bit of texture and raised embellishments: