Surprising My Boyfriend For His Birthday

My boyfriend birthday was last week and I’ve been planning to surprise him.  I wanted to make him a theme birthday cake even though I’ve never made one before.  I was pretty nervous but it turned out great! Everything turned out amazing!  I made him a minecraft cake since he’s been playing that a lot with his little brother.

Any who on the day of, my boyfriend decided to come early which was not good for me.  I wanted to decorate the cake in the morning so I was trying to get the cake ready and look nice in a short amount of time.  He ended up having to wait in the car for about 30 minutes extra after he got here.  I really wanted to finish the cake I worked hard on those characters and was determined to finish even if he had to wait longer!

I had him close his eyes until he got seated in front of the cake.  He was pretty surprised and loved it! Making a theme cake is not something I do he couldn’t stop staring at the cake which made me happy!

His second gift was 3 chargers bags and Dead Island Riptide.  I actually had him buy this game himself so he can get the points for his GameStop card.  I told him it was a gift for my brother’s birthday which is believable because their birthdays are in the same month.  The game came with a metal case for people that preordered so I wrote “Sike but I love you!” in the empty case and put that in the Chargers bag.  His face was priceless he was so confused and thought I gave him the wrong present since I said it was for my brother.  He opened it and read the note and was like “What…. Babe are you serious? So where’s the game?” he kept looking in the bag until he found it.

After all that we headed to the beach we wanted to go to Newport Beach but decided to drive down PCH and ended up in Dana Point.  I wanted to take him to Doheny State Beach I remember it being really nice but what I do not remember is that parking was $15.  So we busted a U-turn and went somewhere else.  We found a nice little beach to relax under some big trees, when all of a sudden my boyfriend hears a really loud plane, we both saw it but didn’t think much about it until I saw that it was pulling a sign behind it saying “Julie my darling <3 will you marry me?” I’ve never seen a proposal before it was the cutest thing ever! Even though we never actually saw the couple it was still pretty cute.

Anyways after that we drove up a random hill and found a little trail that overlooks the cliffs and ocean it was amazing!  Loved the view!  We started heading back home since we were an hour away we didn’t want to get back too late for dinner at Claws.  After dinner we headed home since my boyfriend now lives an hour and a half to two hours away.

So that was it, I think I did a pretty good job in tricking and surprising him for his birthday.  I’m glad I could make his birthday one of the best ones!

the final product!

Happy Birthday!

I left my sunglasses at home so he helped out haha

the trail on the cliff overlooking the ocean

D.I.Y Anniversary Card

Now that our anniversary has passed I can post this! This is also my first time posting of any D.I.Y project SO if it sounds like I suck at explaining things and I confuse a lot of you sorry! :) So anyways, I wrote my boyfriend a poem but didn't know how I wanted to give it to him.  So I decided to make him another card I've made him a couple cards before but it’s been awhile.  I think this card is pretty simple compared to my other cards I've made in the past.  Everything I used I already had on hand so I didn't spend any money making this card.

What you'll need:
1.) Fabric Glue or Aleene's Tacky Glue I love using this glue for fabrics or any other crafts it dries super fast
2.) Any color ribbons.  I am using the Green and the Yellow ribbon
3.) 2 of any type of of paper such as; Construction paper, Photo printing papers, or like the one I'm using for this project a plain greeting cards.  I'm sure you can find these at any office supply stores.
4.) Regular scissor and any type of crafting shape scissors
5.)  Some tape

                                   
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( If you are using Construction paper fold both sheets of paper in half to make the card.
   If you are using Photo printing paper or the blank greeting card like I am this is very important. Fold 1 paper in half glossy side is on the outside.  Fold the 2nd paper with the glossy side facing the inside.  Because later you are going to glue both back sides of the paper together as you can see in the picture at the very top of the page it's a clean nice look on the inside.)


First I taped one end of the ribbon to the back side of the card and measured how much I would need then I taped the other end to the card.   Be sure to check to make sure that the ribbon is straight in the front before you glue each end to the card. You can leave the tape on the ribbon or take it off it doesn't really matter it's going to get covered up anyways.

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Repeat the same step if you are using 2 different ribbons.  I decided to do a vertical line and a horizontal line with the ribbon

First picture on the left is the front side.  Second picture on the right is the backside of the card.

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You should have something that looks like this now on the inside.

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See how I folded the second paper in half the front side (glossy side if using Photo paper) of the card is now on the inside.  Now glue the backside of this to the 1st paper with the ribbon

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I just use Paint to print out the words and use the scissors to cut it out making nice little designs and glued on.  The hearts I found on Google just search Hearts and a ton will pop up.  Before I glued on the heats I glued the ribbon to the card by squirting a little bit of glue under the middle of each section of the ribbon just so that it is more secured.

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I wanted to do something on the inside and not just leave it plain so I printed out a bigger heart and wrote in the middle and yes I had to print out a second one because I wrote 2013 instead of 2011 for when we first started dating.  Fail.  Anyways to make it pop out/3D looking I ripped a long piece of scrap paper and fold that in half then fold it making a Z shape and glued it to the back of the heart.

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and there you have it a heart that pops out

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I hope you all like this! I'm pretty sure I confused most of you that read this.  I didn't take that many pictures because at the time I really had no idea where I was going with the card.  I thought it was kind of cute so I'd thought I would share it.  The color reminds me of spring sunny (yellow ribbon) grassy (green ribbon) and flowers (pink hearts).

Thanks for reading! :) <3