When it comes to interactive cards, the trickiest thing for me is coming up with a design that makes good use of the movement — I don’t want to add moving parts just for the sake of it. Then I had the idea of having a kite floating in the sky.
Striped glitter balloon
I’d forgotten how much I like microfine glitter. It gives a subtle shine that you can actually photograph without glare or reflections. It sticks remarkably well without shedding all over the place. And it’s not even that messy to work with as long as you pour it over coffee filters and have a wet wipe to hand to clean it off your finger after rubbing it into the adhesive.
Purple glitter butterfly
I’ve had this butterfly sitting on my desk since I cut it from a scrap of card I used to test the glitter kiss on. I have tried it against every background that came to hand and, in spite of it being a bold colour and shiny, it just didn’t stand out against any of them.
Gorjuss girl in blue
I love the Gorjuss girls. There’s something about the simplicity of the faces and the poses that is really appealing.
Glitter cogs with stripes
This nearly ended up in the bin.
I had die cut the cogs from both pearlised grey and a panel of black card, layered them over some double-sided adhesive sheet and added an ombre glitter effect inside the cogs. But I wasn’t very happy with the result and, try as I might, I could not come up with anything that I liked at all. I hate throwing things out though, so it sat on my desk for a day while I did some other sparkly things and pondered.
Glitter butterflies
It’s just as well I got all caught up with the backlog of card write-ups otherwise I would be really stressing about the stack of cards that are waiting to be blogged right now. But that’s what happens when I take a class with Online Card Classes — so many fun ideas that just have to be turned into cards!
Clean and simple fox
Like the dragons, this fox was coloured for the critters lesson in Sandy Allnock’s Copic Jumpstart class and I am really happy with the fur texture I managed to create. It is possible to get really fine lines with a Copic marker, but you do need a very light hand to do it…
