Birthday card-and present-for a friend

Hello everyone! I'm back again. Ramadan Mubarak to you all!

My (best) friend, Abiha, turned eleven the other day so I decided to share the gift and card over here(btw, I haven't given either of them to her yet, because we haven't met for quite a few days. :P Never mind. I never do manage to keep things secret for long. XD)

As I wasn't feeling particularly well(nothing, nothing, I just got a temperature)during the last week, I didn't have much time or energy to prepare a proper present for her, so I just made an embroidered fabric bookmark. It was an experiment. 

My sister was embroidering something for herself and I got pooped up just looking at her. I decided to embroider something too. I decided to make a unique embroidered bookmark. I found some brown fabric, drew a pattern on it, and then embroidered over it. The results were satisfactory, and so I sewed it at the back and washed it, and, well, it was done. It looked pretty awesome.

Below is a picture.

I had initially drawn flowers, but they looked awful embroidered,
so I tried hearts. Flowers are the stereotype and they look rather
typical. I like this better.

Aandd...the card...(on her last birthday I wrote 'It's terrific to be
ten'. I guess next year it will be 'It's tremendous to be twelve'
or something.

I made the card by cutting pink squares out of a magazine and gluing them to form a checkerboard. Later I lined the squares with a mustard pointer and drew spirals and hearts in alternate columns.

I also wrote 'It's epic to be eleven!' in super-bold typography. Well, I have to admit the typography isn't as epic as the rest of the card, but it'll have to do. Also, the ink smudged slightly(which I fixed on the computer), because I started erasing the pencil lines before the ink had dried. :/

Thank you. I'll be back-sooner or later. XD