It’s my other half’s birthday today, so of course I had to create something special and geeky for him. I returned to a common theme: Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Specifically, this time, the new ones where Gypsy appears as a silhouette on-screen and Tom Servo flies around occasionally rather than being stuck in the seats. (If you don’t know MST3K, it’s basically “one man and his robots make fun of bad movies”.)
Birthdays are no respecters of how you’re feeling and annoyingly come along even when you have a horrible flu-y cold. And so it was I had to create a masculine card for my neighbour all while reaching for the tissues and breaking into a sweat. Ideal conditions to try something I haven’t done before 🙄
And that’s how I came to be colouring a vaguely realistic glass of whisky with Copics and coloured pencils.
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.
I always try to match cards to their recipients as much as I can. So my mum gets cute critters and flowers, my other half gets something a bit geeky, his sister gets bunnies, and we seem to be developing a South Wales theme for his dad. Last year I did a picture of Port Talbot docks; this year it’s the Mumbles lifeboat.
And so we start the year with a masculine birthday card. Something similar went past in my Pinterest feed and I thought I’d have a go at adapting the design to work with the supplies I already have. (I do not need another alphabet die set… I do not need another alphabet die set… I do not need another alphabet die set…)
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This was created on 7th July: day 3 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge.
What is it with all the masculine cards in the middle of summer? This one was for my neighbour, who does like an occasional tipple; I didn’t have any whisky bottle images to hand, so had to go with the second option of wine bottles instead.
Another catch-up post; this card was originally made on February 4th.
This was a quick card for my nephew. He’s at that awkward age — nineteen — where his dad is no use whatsoever when asked what his interests are (other than “girls” and that’s really not the sort of card he’d want to receive from his aunt 😉 )
