Musical Birthday Card and a Sneeky Peek

First, a quick Christmas card, the holly leaves were cut from the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge, and Joy is from Joys of the Season. I really do need to make a start on my cards, I am a bit laid back

I had to make a male birthday card in a real hurry, luckily I had my new 'Not for girls' CD fromPolkadoodles handy, and it took no time at all to make this, for a chap that loves music and has been known to get up and sing in pub karaoke nights. All the papers and the topper are from the CD. I embossed a piece of red card with the cuttlebug - allegro folder, I think that's what it's called, and did a shadow on the lettering in the same colour red with a copic marker

and here is a sneek peek at my card for the Polkadoodles weekly challenge tomorrow
Thanks to all of you who have been sweet enough to make kind comments about my first video attempt. I think I am getting a bit carried away, and keep thinking of other projects I can video. A couple of answers to comments, I got the matchboxes in the Dollar Tree here in the US, they were 12 for a dollar, they also have the big ones, two for a dollar. I think they are sold in Poundland in the UK. The big boxes would be quite easy to adapt, and have the advantage of being sturdier, and they would hold quite good sized gifts. Next year, when Max is three, I will make him one, at the moment one of these little ones would last about 10 seconds under his rather robust present opening technique. The little drawers were quite difficult to pull out, so today I waxed the sides of each drawer with a scented candle, they pull out smoothly and easily now, and the boxes smell gorgeous.
What have I done with the matches? They are in a big bag in the garage - does anybody feel like building a model ship out of matches? If so, I'm your new best friend......