Home made Fall birthday greeting card 2021

 Welcome to another "catch up" share posting. 😜😊This time we have another fall birthday theme with some cute whimsical fall leave characters. It was very similarly created like another b day card I shared a few years ago. I used coloured pencil on coloured construction paper, layering on the drawing and colours till I got a satisfying result. I added a finishing touch with plastic google eyes like the cherry on top of a cup cake since I wasn't satisfied with the whimsy. Well that and the fact that the smirk made me feel a bit uneasy and might be taken the wrong way. In the end it turned out great. It was actually completed that same year just didn't use it right away for other reasons. Hope you like it. 😊

 

First I free-handed an image in a yellow pencil to make it stand out. 🔻

 

Second phase. Starting to add shading. Finding my way around the card. 🔻

 

Third phase. Really starting to take shape. Got to keep on working. 🔻

Forth phase. Just about done. 🔻

 All done and added the inside part of the card. Google eyes added. So cute!🔻

As always, I placed the image illustration on a piece of some kind of white card stock I had on hand. I can't remember what it was because it was a while ago but I'm pretty sure I got it out of my box o bits and pieces. That's where my small pieces of leftovers go when I finish a project. Comes it handy and less environmental waste. 

Added a cute message and other things of which I will not share for privacy reasons. Mostly created using marker and some coloured pencil 🔺

 

 

Since I didn't have an envelope on hand I simply made one out of an orange child goody bag purchased at any dollar store. Pretty inexpensive at the time but who knows these days with all this crazy inflation. 😒 Anyways I took the bag apart and folded it into the distinctive envelope shape. The size was pretty spot on for my needs. Then I put on the address and decorated it a bit with some cute fall leaves. As always personal info was omitted for obvious reasons. 

Hope you enjoyed my latest "make" even thought technically it was made a few years back. But its new to you, right? 

Thank you for visiting and as always it will be featured soon at my personal web site when I get around to it. 😊

Homemade Easter card 2020

 Last year when the pandemic came out and right around that time it started to rage all over the world. I made this card with that theme in mind, only a bit friendlier in nature. Sure, this situation is not the greatest to be in but I guess its better to be positive instead of the latter. 

So anyways I made this card featuring a cute Easter bunny giving out much needed toilet paper and other pandemic fare that was a bit hard to find as a result of pandemic purchasing. 

Using some leftover poster board and watercolour paper I had in my "leftovers box", the card was all homemade. I just drew an image that inspired me at the time and coloured it in with marks and some coloured pencil. The background was made using some water colour before the rest of the image was completed of course. Finished it off with some fine tipped marker. The card it self was covered in some tissue paper before I placed the watercolour image on. I also had laying around. I chose red and white since I really didn't have much variety to choose from. I guess in the future I'll have to collect some more from the dollar store or where ever. None the less it really turned out nice and it covered the flaws in the poster board such as wrinkles.  Since I had no envelope to place the card in, I found an old poster I collected a few years before from a store that was selling alcohol. They often get rid of stuff like old poster advertisements, the tubes they come in and other interesting useful things at the end of seasons. So the poster had this nice abstract pattern with lots of cheery colours on it that reminded me of the season of spring and Easter. So I chose a spot to use for the envelope. I was pretty lucky the poster was the way it was and not specific to any image. It made it perfect for that use. So I folded it all up till it finally it became a nice useful envelope. I added a nice piece of copy paper on to the front so that I could put on directions to where it has to go. The envelope was too colourful and glossy to be written on anyhow. Then I just put everything together and sent it off to make someones day last Easter. My friend really got a kick out of it. 😊

 

 

The original drawing I made🔺

A sample of what the poster board looks like when its coloured with tissue papers. 🔺

 

What the envelope looks like from both sides🔺🔻

 

What the card looks like when its all finished🔻

 

 As always featured in my personal site soon. Thanks for viewing! 😊