Kidnapping Michael Bublé

Just want to share with you a very specific card I made for a long time customer. Love making her orders, they are always crazy in the best way.  

 Let me assure you now, the design request was very long and thorough, and all choices from this point were to fit the brief!

I drew and then coloured the main image with copics. Yes, she had kidnapped The Bublé!

I masked off an area of my background and used peel offs like mini-stencils to create all the jewellery coming from the exhaust.

I then used distress oxides to cover the whole background. Then I made a stencil for a New York skyline but including the Avengers HQ building. I used black distress oxide over the stencil. To set the ink I sprayed it all with a fine mist of water.

I then 3D foam mounted the motorbike over the top and began adding lots of different bling to parts of the card. I also printed out a 50th moon so I could add the age to the card front.

I made the card up into an easel card. I used some online images to create a blue starry background and another New York Skyline for the inner. I raised the greeting on 3D foam so the topper could hook behind it.

And job done! Was going to glossy accent the glasses but forgot, oops! Hope they customer likes it. I am not sure if she returns it quite who I can give it to, lol.

Extra LBBS post!

Popping by with an extra Little Blue Button Stamps post this month! (X-post to the LBBS Blog) Excited to share with you Miss Lilly Kitty. Inspired by my friend Grace's KPop Top! :D

I normally avoid black, if I can, I find it's much slower to build up enough black for it to be clearly black but also enough shade so it's got highlights and shadows. If you get it wrong it's just grey. This is using polychromo pencils, as normal.

I did the fur technique on the hat and loved how it came out! I think it night be the star of the show, so I tried hard to match the awesomeness in her outfit too! lol! I found a Shimelle bling heart to use for the nose, thought it was a more interesting change in texture than leaving my coloured version.

Here she is in the shop so you can see how she looked before I went in with the black and rainbow! She was super easy to colour, loved doing her and think I could use her for loads of different occassions, adult and kids cards alike.

Just popped on Pinterest to find a quote about being Awesome that I thought my friend would like :) The Font is Scooby Doo, I used it as an outline too for the rainbow lettering.

The Stars are stickers from one of the poundshop places. They are actually really nice and enamel feeling so if I see some more I will be buying them! :) Background paper from the stash.

There are a lot more creations by the DT team and customers if you go to the LBBS facebook page. Loads of inspiration too! Click the link below.

Sports Cards

I had in an order for a Man U football card so decided to use this Hunkydory kit called "Man of the Match!" I made the kit up as per the layout they suggest and added personal elements to tailor it for the order. Afterwards I wasn't happy with it so I had a rethink and added some stars to make it seem a bit more fun and special. What do you think? Did the stars work?

I also used the kit to make a rugby card at the same time for a friends birthday.

Before

 After

Card for my BIL

Did a little watercolour picture from a photo of my nephew Riley and thought I would convert it into a birthday card for my brother-in-law (his Dad!). It was actually quite hard work making a card and leaving it so the painting could be removed if they wanted to keep it! (That's if they recognise it's meant to be him, lol!).

Close up of the watercolour.

Set of paper were from "Making Cards" magazine, a long time ago, but they've been a really useful boy set! Stars from Prima and Papermania. Font is "Breamcatcher" one of my fav fonts.

London Icons.

Second card I am blogging that I have made for my SIL. This time I used a fab set of stamps from Artemio - London Modern ( Sometimes called London Icons, not sure!) Ref: 10001173. I just used Black Versamark and Barn Door Distress Ink for the stamping and matted/layered on black, on a red card base. The font is Seaside Resort NF.

One Small Step!

I was very lucky to win a Dr.Digi competition earlier in the year and "One Small Step" was one of the digistamps I chose as my prize. Finally have given it to my very good friend for her birthday so can post it here now!

It's polychromo pencils on kraft card (gosh yes, I know, are you bored of it now?) and I added the stars in after with a white posca pen. I tried hard to make a "galaxy" effect background for him using the pencils and added in details for the flag and the reflection in his helmet. It's a super cute stamp to colour in :) Font is East Coast Stationery.