Martha Metal Head

It's another Dr.Digi Friyay! :D This is Martha Metal Head, she was part way through her best ever riff before she realised she wasn't plugged into the speakers. 

I coloured her with polychromo pencils and a white posca pen. I also used a black micron pen to draw in some of the finer details.

Here she is in the shop -

And here is my version of her -

I just matted and layered her onto a red card and then onto a black card blank.

I didn't add any bling to the card, but might sit and think about whether to add some later. There was so much speaker going on I thought plain might be best. What do you think? Add some bling, or not?

Thanks for joining me on another Dr.Digi Friyay. Pop to the shop if you fancy? Let me be a naughty enabler!

Eighties Pop-up

Hi everyone, sharing a commissioned card today, my customer wanted an all out eighties card!

The recipient of this card is really into eighties music so I took that as the main theme and tracked down some eighties "Smash Hits" covers to use for the sides of my pop-up card.

I decided I wanted to do an eighties envelope too! This was meant to be black, red and grey. I used to have an eighties duvet cover just like that.

On the back I added the sentiment my customer had sent me with a background of magazine covers showing her favourite eighties music artist.  Then wrapped it up flat and sent it to my customer.

Morrissey

Had another commissioned card for something a bit musical, but this time it was Morrissey!

Last year I made a similar card for a Bowie fan! I really like making them, they look just like a minature record when they are done, and I like anything minature!

I hunted round for an album cover I thought she might like and made it into a sleeve for the round card. I printed the front and back of the album cover onto card and then cut them out with tabs so I could glue them together. I made sure the round card would fit inside. I made the round card using a tin lid and then in the centre some layered diecut circles, finally die cutting a central disc from a print out of the actual centre of the real LP. I then popped a hole in the middle using my cropadile.

Marina!

Quick post of a commission card I have recently made for a fan of Marina and the Diamonds.

It wasn't a complicated card, what took the time was researching enough about Marina that I could cater for the tastes of a fan! Consequently I listened to a lot of her music and her videos so I could get cool ideas for the badges. The customer also wanted a bit more input on the card than usual, so I did quite a few designs for badges and let her pick the five she liked best.

Most of the badges refer to songs, lyrics or albums. Very luckily it was for a 17th birthday and Marina has a song about being seventeen! lol. I used my Super Badge It Machine to make the badges. I made the badge designs and background on the computer and then printed them out to use.

It was quite nice to be introduced to some new music, actually really enjoyed her videos and am tempted to buy the  "Froot" album now :)

17th birthday commission.

So trying to make cards to appeal to teenager boys is never easy.... but I am hoping I have done ok on this commission. I went for an "app" style layout and included his passions of "computers, music, keyboard and driving lessons".

I used a service called Freepik to make the icons on this card. I couldn't find a set that exactly fitted what I needed so I used artwork from several sets that I shall list below. As long as you credit the work to the right people you can freely use these images. This is my first time tho, so hope I have done it correctly!

Mechanical Icons (Steering Wheel & Car Key) Designed by Freepik
Keyboard in background Designed by Freepik
Tecnology Icons (Laptop etc) Designed by Freepik
Music Icons (Guitar, Keyboard etc) Designed by Freepik
Gamecontroller - Designed by Freepik

Font is Breamcatcher.