Man's birthday card

Since I was in a creative mood, I made a card for my son's upcoming birthday.  To create this card, I pulled out some very old, long unused supplies.

I used some tan cardstock and placed it in the wood grain embossing folder, then patted some Memento Rich Cocoa ink onto the raised areas.  Using the old original Sizzix die, I cut out an ancient document from the same cardstock.  I placed this die cut into a very old Sizzix Happy Birthday stencil. 

If you've never seen these, they came before the embossing folders were invented.  The brass stencil was glued into a plastic folder and another piece of plastic, embossed with sentiment, is inside back of folder.  I then removed brass stencil from folder and used it to add color to raised letters.  I added some of same ink to edges of sign for the distressed look

The hammer and nails were cut with the small Sizzlet die.  I used both silver and brown paper.  I cut the handle from the brown paper and glued it on top of silver handle.  I then glued the brown hammer head under the silver head.  I placed the nails through small holes in the corners and glued the 'sign' onto the woodgrain paper.  I used tiny brads in the lower corners, with heads painted silver.  I attached the hammer onto card with foam tape to give it some dimension.

I added a dark brown frame and adhered it to a cream cardstock.