Get Carded: Buon Compleanno!

Hello! My dad's 93rd birthday is tomorrow, so recently I began deliberating the making of his birthday card. 

I often make him cards with a green theme since that's his favorite color. But then I spied this wallet-sized card in an Italian cookbook I'd just brought home from a thrift store:

"Speak Italian in 10 minutes or less!" this handy-dandy card proclaims. I'm sure learning to speak Italian takes longer than that, but since my dad was born in Italy, my birthday card theme was launched:

Materials used:

• white card stock
• map of Italy from vintage world atlas, photocopied to reduced size
• Italian language card, photocopied to reduced size
• pictures of statues cut from a vintage travel guide for Rome
• words cut from vintage textbook about Europe
• "happy birthday" stamped in black ink on white card stock scrap and glued to card

A couple of close-ups:

The words "the island of Sicily" and "Sometimes it is said that 'Italy is kicking Sicily'" pay homage to my dad's roots; he is 100% Sicilian.

Close-up of the statues, the word "Milan" and the language card. My dad's roots are Sicilian, but he was actually born in Milan. 

My dad does speak some Italian, but I don't think I've heard him say "Buon Compleanno", which is Italian for "Happy Birthday". Nevertheless, I enjoyed making this card for him, and I hope he likes it!