This year saw me and one of my closest friends turn 21 in the space of 2 days. In order to celebrate properly, we bought tickets to see Wicked as it was in Manchester at the time. Obviously, I had to make her a Wicked themed card.
I had never seen the musical before or read the book so all I had to go on was the poster and the limited knowledge I had of the story - it is essentially the prequel to the Wizard of Oz. It didn't give me much to go on.
I ended up using the poster for inspiration. I used black card stock to make a stepper blank but used green card to create the background and Elphaba's face. I didn't want to just re create the poster so I added a couple of my own touches such as glittery lips and using foam pads to make her had stand out from the card as well as over the edges.
I still needed to finish it off and my solution to problems like that is now to just add stars and glitter. Works everytime - this time in particular! The 21 was simply cut out from white card and I tried to use the same font that the poster uses. I finished it off with a peel-off sentiment.
She loved the card. And we both absolutely loved Wicked. Cannot wait to see it again!
So if you follow my blog (and I thank you for doing so!) or if you've found me on facebook, you may have realised that I'm not exactly being productive on the card front at the moment. Third year architecture is definitely taking its toll and I am only finding time to write at the moment because I'm waiting for printing to happen (grrrr). But enough about architecture!
With horror, the other day I realised that I have around 20 days until university finishes for Christmas. And I had barely started my Christmas cards. And I have a lot to do this year due to the cohort of hikers that I have recently acquired!
I then decided that no matter what happens, I am going to make one Christmas card a day until the end of term which should give me enough cards to send to people. I started this on Sunday and am actually ahead of schedule despite not making any last night or the night before due to making more than one in an evening. The other benefit of this is making sure I get a break from stressing about architecture.
Speaking of stressing, I had a care package from home on Friday. I wasn't expecting it at all but when I opened it, my friends definitely gave me some funny looks. Glittery Christmas foam stickers have the same effect (if not a greater one) as chocolate!
Tonight however, with final crits out of the way, I am having a craft-fest. I am breaking out the chocolate and the Christmas paper and even the Christmas music! 7 hours and counting . . . .
No, this entry isn't about getting organised and sorted for C-day - trust me, I am a long way off!
I want to share some of my Christmas card idea. In particular, those I have made using patterned papers. One of my biggest problems when walking into a craft shop is the inability to leave without finding a new pack of paper that I just have to have. I now have 3 big packs of Christmas themed paper: traditional (the usual suspects), modern (blues and purples and whites - probably my favourite of the three) and cartoony (so really bright colours and bold patterns).
My first card is one I made with the third set of paper. This paper was covered with penguins and I decided to make them the feature of the card. I used a strip of the paper but cut around the penguin and instead of just gluing him down with the rest of the paper, i used sticky pads to make it look as if he was sledding out of the card. I then finished it off with a tree from the paper and a seasonal greeting.
This one is a design I did a couple of years back and will do it again. I used the modern papers for this as well as some dark blue paper I had lying around. I cut a strip away from the front of the blank, adding paper to the inside and over lapping the star and the handwritten message.
This last one was just made using patterned paper as it was. Again, from the modern paper, I cut it to shape, letting some of the pink card blank show through before finishing it with glitter glue snowflakes.
Hope I have managed to inspire some quick and easy cards!
I am slightly amazed that I have managed to find the time to make this card today. In a matter of hours, I am off to the Lake District for a week with my family (Really, really, really hoping the weather turns out nice as we are hiking most of the week).
So, the theme for this week's challenge is the Sea and things seen in or by it. I have done a few sea-themed cards recently: I entered another challenge a few weeks back and of course, there is the sailing card for the Olympics.
I made this one a really quick card by using a pre-made embellishment as the central focus of the design. These dolphins were given to me by my German room-mate last year whose family owned a craft shop. I finished the card with some blue fabricy-paper stuff and some paper ribbon. A Happy Birthday tag was added to the bottom and as an after thought, I had an experiment with some glitter glue that my sister found by creating a wave pattern up the length of the ribbon.
This year saw me and one of my closest friends turn 21 in the space of 2 days. In order to celebrate properly, we bought tickets to see Wicked as it was in Manchester at the time. Obviously, I had to make her a Wicked themed card.
