A Man card

Hi there,

The February challenge at A Place to start is to create a masculine card or project. I find man cards quite difficult so don't make many and when I do they tend to follow the same basic design of manly coloured papers with layers, tags or banners. So I've come up with something a little bit different this time

It's my elderly neighbours birthday next week. He's not in good health but always tries to be as cheerful as possible. It's because of his health that I was stuck for ideas really. The shops are full of cards with pics of anything sporty, glasses of beer or flashy cars.
John  is in his 80's, he can't walk more than 3 steps without a rest, he's just had his licence revoked because of his ill health and he can't drink alcohol. I didn't want him to think I was taking the micky but now I'm worried this one might be a bit too modern for him.

I cut the leaves from some scraps of card that I'd smooshed with distress inks
The wood effect paper is from Lemon Craft
I made the frame using 2 sets of rectangle dies.
The sentiment is PC generated.

Dies by
The Works
Simply Graphic
Spellbinders
Caroles crafts

No matter what, I know he'll be too polite to say anything but nice things.

Thanks for popping in x