Jeg limede et par af pailetterne fra inde i rammen udenpå kortet for at give lidt sammenhæng og lidt mere dybde.
Som altid er motiverne farvelagt med mine farveblyanter og blendet med Zest-it. Jeg er blevet for nærrig til at købe dies til stempelsættene, så jeg klipper figurerne ud, hvilket som regel ikke er så slemt endda.
Line havde købt et lille puslespil til Clotilde, og en af brikkerne var en gul bamse – så jeg måtte sikre mig, at der kom en lille gul bamse med på kortet. Bamsen har fået selskab af en lyserød elefant, som jeg bare syntes var nuttet. Øjne og næse har jeg tegnet op med en sort gelpen, og prikkerne på kinderne er lavet med en hvid signo.
Shakeren er formet som en blomst, og jeg har da også fyldt dem med blandt andet blomsterpailetter samt lidt almindelige runde pailetter og et par snefnug.
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Well, it has actually been a few months since Fenja turned three but I haven’t gotten around to editing the pictures of the card before now… Good thing I got the card sent in time for her birthday, right? Shaker cards remain a stable when sending cards to the little ones and so I went with yet another one for Fenja. I created the shaker-element separate from the card base so that I could stamp and heat emboss a night sky complete with a half moon for the background of the shaker. I filled the shaker with tiny coloured star confetti (and I wish I had added even more).
To give the card base a little detail, I stamped diagonal stripes using a dark grey. This adds a little something without taking away from the main focus of the card.
I coloured the cute Lawn Fawn dragon using my PrismaColor pencils and blended the colours for a smooth look. It isn’t visible in the picture but I added some Wink of Stella to details on the dragon as well as to the fire it breathes.
Thankfully, the card found a happy recipient who laughed at the card – that means my job was done.
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Today Ellen turns 2 two and that means we’ve sent her a card celebrating her day. When I made Agnes’ card I also had an idea for another card in my head. This card ended up as Ellen’s birthday card. For this card I did the background using watercolours because I wanted a very subtle background with grass as well as a blue sky.
Once the background had dried (and had spend a few hours under something heavy to be straigthened out) I was able to die cut the balloon directly into the background. I filled the balloon with plenty of sequins which I’ve lately discovered makes a lot of sense because the shaker elements look better with more sequins in it (at least I think so). I added some clouds, a smiling sun and even some raindrops to complete the sky above the elephant.
I used Prismacolor Pencils and Zest-It to colour the elephant and prior to attaching it to the card I tied a yellow bow around its trunk so that it would look like the balloon was tied to the trunk of the elephant. I stamped Ellen’s name and age to the right of the elephant and finally I stamped some tiny tufts of grass along the top of my water colour grass.
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