Several years ago, when I first got into cardmaking, we had this conversation:
Him: I need to run out tonight and buy a card for you.
Me: Ummm, we no longer buy cards in this house. We make them.
He was a very good sport and up for the challenge. I handed him my basics and some scraps, and he went to work.
He always labels the back with a crazy "collection" title, like "From the Love You Forever collection."
This is the card that I made him for this year....
and this is the card that he made me...
When I gave him mine, he looked at it, jokingly rolled his eyes, and said, "Now, how am I supposed to compete when you go and pull out a picture to put on yours?"
A little later, he said that he wished he could have made the "10" stand out more on the card, so I told him how he could have done that.
An artist in the making. Laugh.
