📻 7 Days of Cards – Day 5: HAM IT UP for Dad 🐷

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Okay, oddballs, this one is super special!


Funny Handmade Card for Dad


For Day 5 of the Getting My Sh*t Together Card Challenge, I’m sharing a cute birthday card for my Dad, the original ham in my life, and the reason I got into amateur radio in the first place.

He’s been a ham radio operator for decades, and when I was 10, I decided I wanted to be just like him.

So I studied, got licensed, and now here we are: 22 years of shared static, soldering, and signal chasing later, and I finally made him a birthday card featuring Beacon the ham, hamming it up on a ham radio. Naturally.

Handmade book bind Z-fold birthday card featuring a custom digital stamp of a cartoon pig (ham) operating a ham (amateur) radio station. The pig is seated at a desk with a microphone and radio unit. The front of the card reads “Ham It Up (for your birthday)” in bold text. Inside is a handwritten birthday message. Card is colored with Ohuhu alcohol markers and uses patterned paper from craft stash.

🎨 Supplies Used:

  • Custom digital stamp (created by me!)
  • Colored with Ohuhu markers
  • Patterned papers (DSP) from my stash
  • Card base: Book bind Z-fold, Cricut cardstock
  • Cricut for the “Ham It Up” sentiment panel
  • Metallic gel pen for extra sparkle




🐽 The Card Details:

This funny handmade card for dad is a book bind Z-fold card, made with some elegant DSP from my stash and a pun that just had to happen:

“HAM IT UP (for your birthday)”

The digital stamp is completely custom—hand-drawn by me just for this occasion. Beacon the little pig (a ham, obviously) sitting at a desk, mic in hand, ready to make birthday QSO magic.

I colored him with Ohuhu markers, and wrote a personal note inside.

My dad told me it’s now hanging in his ham shack, which… I mean… 💖 Goal achieved.

Transmitting love,

Breanna

P.S. Don’t forget to check out yesterday’s card: Bowling for Mother’s Day

Funny handmade card for dad is a book bind Z-fold card featuring a custom digital stamp of a cartoon pig (ham) operating a ham (amateur) radio station. The pig is seated at a desk with a microphone and radio unit. The front of the card reads “Ham It Up (for your birthday)” in bold text. Inside is a handwritten birthday message. Card is colored with Ohuhu alcohol markers and uses patterned paper from craft stash.

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Breanna

Breanna is the card witch behind TigerOddity Creations. She lives in the PNW and is a therapist by day, but enjoys crafting, hanging out with her many animals, and writing fanfiction by night.

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