My brother's birthday is today, though we're celebrating with him tomorrow. I thought this card design would be great for him. I admittedly struggled a bit with how to fill the panels, since I didn't want just patterned paper. He is very much into aviation and loves good jokes & puns. So I googled airplane puns. I found a few, but nothing that really "spoke" to me. I then googled airplane jokes, and found laffgaff.com. They had several good ones, so I chose 5 to add to the wider panels. (I wrote a birthday sentiment on the 6th panel.) I found an airplane patterned paper in the "That's My Boy" pad, as well as 2 more celebratory-looking papers, so I used those to accent the narrower panels. The card was really simple to put together, thanks to the wonderful tutorial! I like that it looks kind of complex, but it came together quickly.
For the jokes, I created a blank "canvas" in Photoshop the dimensions of the panel in the tutorial. I marked off guidelines, & used the Text tool to paste a joke that I'd copied to my computer's clipboard. I saved that, replaced the joke with the next one, saved that with a different name, and so on, until I'd finished all 5 joke panels. I finished the 6th panel with my own words, and then copied all 6 panels to a blank, letter-size canvas. I printed them from that, and cut them apart with my paper trimmer. Then it was just a case of adhere them into the card. In hindsight, I kind of wish I'd done a more "introductory" panel for the first one, but I wasn't going back just for that! Overall, I'm super pleased with how this card came out! I still giggle in giddy delight, anticipating my brother's reaction when he opens it tomorrow. I didn't even show it to our mom, since I want her to appreciate it fully with him & his wife. ;)
For your reading pleasure, here are the jokes I used:
My grandad was responsible for 28 downed German planes in WWII.
To this day he still holds the record as the worst mechanic the Luftwaffe ever had.
My wife asked Siri, "Surely it's not going to rain today?"
Siri said, "Yes it will rain, and don't call me Shirley."
I think she forgot to take her phone off Airplane mode.
What do you call an airplane that flies backwards?
A receding airline.
I just put my cell phone on airplane mode.
Biggest disappointment of my life.
It didn't fly anywhere.
You can say "hi" to everyone on a plane except one person:
Jack.
LOLOL
Date: Friday, July 29, 2022 GMT Views: 240
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