Father's Day Card

I was taking some photos with my camera and, when transferring them to the computer, I came across some photos that I took just before Father's Day.

My sister lives in the US and A and so she e-mailed me a photo of herself with her husband and her son and she asked me to print it and make it into a Father's Day card for her. I arranged it into a suitable PDF and dropped it over to the DCU print shop. I asked them to do two copies - one in colour and one monochrome - so I could pick the one that looked best and use it.

I ended up selecting the colour one for my sister, but then when I got home I realised that I hadn't actually bothered to buy a card for my father (I rarely buy cards because they seem impersonal and overpriced) and that the gift I ordered was not going to arrive on time. So, rather than show up in my parents' house with only a card form my sister, I decided to repurpose the extra card.

Here are some pictures of the results. You'll have to excuse the quality of the photographs. I'm not much of a photographer at the best of times and, in this case, I snapped these to send to my sister as an illustration of what her card actually looked like. I would take better pictures for this post, but I no longer have access to the cards.

First, the card from my sister:

I couldn't resist the urge to add a bit of an in-joke on the back of the card:

Many of the people who read this blog (in fact, probably both of you) will get the first half of that joke, at least!

Here is my modified version:


And here are both cards side by side:


My card is crudely stuck together with sellotape and the Dónall-heads are poorly cut out. I think that it adds to the effect.

I think my father quite liked the cards. Both of them were on the mantlepiece until last week when they were taken down to make way for my nephew's birthday cards.