This blog post is a little bit different from my usual card write-ups. Towards the end of last year Create A Smile put out a call for card tutorials for a winter mini-magazine they were planning. I made a card, wrote it up and sent it in and then, I guess, life happened and the magazine didn’t. But, rather than just do my usual quick blog post for the card, I thought I might as well publish the tutorial in full. So here we go: winter penguins in June.
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.
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…
This was made for my neighbour. Some people like bunnies, some people like cats or dogs, and some people, like my neighbour, love meerkats. In fact, making this card for her was the main reason for picking up this stamp set.
These baby dragons are just too adorable. They were created as homework for the critters lesson in a Copic course, but it wasn’t fair to leave them languishing in my PHD box for too long. So I created a blended Distress ink background for them (love that wilted violet) and sat them on a sentiment banner.
How quickly time flies; a year has already passed since I was making a welcome card for baby Amelia. Of course, I forgot to put her birthday on my cards to-do list so I didn’t get a reminder to start making this card — I normally give myself plenty of time to come up with card ideas, but this had to be go from “no idea” to “in the post” in short order.
After much pondering, my poor cold-addled brain finally came up with the idea of having a large number one with some animals on balloons. I also saw the opportunity to use the Mama Elephant rainbow die that I’d just picked up from Seven Hills Crafts. I could probably have used one of my (many) so-far-unused stamp sets, but the carnival cupcakes critters were just perfect for this card.
Day twenty-one of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. Our neighbour is in hospital for a few days and I wanted to make a card for her to hopefully raise a smile.
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