Retirement Card.

Brief for commissioned card : Richard is retiring from work. He will be working on his barn conversion and also going skiiing, hiking, and sailing. And a pop up inside wishing him a good retirement. :)

Main image is hand drawn and coloured with copics.  DIY border stamp borrowed from Helen, I can't remember who made it.  Wooden background paper from Joy.

Inside, a pop up using the same DIY border stamp, but scanned in and resized.

Customer Challenge

X posted to the Crafty Magic Bloggers.

One of my card customers enjoys setting me a challenge! This time it was a baby orangutan flying a chinook! I don't know why, so it'll have to remain a mystery. :) Posted it off today.

I drew the image using pencil and Pilot drawing pens, then coloured it in with Copics. Scanned this into the computer and printed it back out in decoupage format. Loving my new Canon Pixma printer! So nice to be able to scan things in colour again* and know they will print out :)

Do you think it looks a bit like he has boobs? >_< Once you see it...... doh!

*Epson Stylus Printer RIP

Yesterday's Cards.

Had a good card making day yesterday and finished a few customer orders. Had a request for more black pug cards!

New Home Pug was loosely based on a Pinterest picture (I'll come back and add a link when I find it again.) and I attempted to recreate the idea in a vintage style using some Santoro Mirabelle card and tissue paper. I am not sure the curtain worked but I might have another go with material at a later date.

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, can't find anywhere better!

The second card was a birthday card for a pug!

First off, I printed out the number "2" to fit onto a 14cmx14cm piece of paper. (Which in turn would go onto a 15cmx15cm card blank.)

I used some pug photos from google image search as inspiration and did a pen and ink image inside the shape of the number 2. I then added crosshatch style shade to give the image a bit more clarity.

I cut out the two (Getting rid of some messy edges), mounted it onto black card  and 3D foam mounted it onto the 14cmx14cm stripey paper (American Crafts) and then matt and layered this onto black card and finally the silver card blank.

Both cards dispatched today to the customer.