Showing posts with label bi-fold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bi-fold. Show all posts

Monday, November 10, 2008

Marine Corps Birthday

I have a lot of friends and family who are associated with the Marine Corps for various reasons, so this year I decided to make them all "birthday" cards for the Marine Corps 233rd birthday.

I tried to make the cards look like the Marine Corps Dress Blues uniforms. I couldn't get some of the fine detailing done (couldn't find the supplies out here), but this is the end result.

I am interested in any advice on how to improve them, especially if you have suggestions on doing fine details like braiding, edging, etc.



Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Love the Bugs....

So I saw this really cute dragonfly stamp on line, and I loved it, but I couldn't wait to buy it to use the dragonfly idea, so I tried to hand draw a similar design. I drew several large and small versions, and used them in various designs. I used a sharpie to draw the outline, and then colored in with crayon.

I used a word stamp on this one and just tiled it across the bottom.

I really like the bi-fold idea, especially with the inset overlapping, this is just another experiment in that motif. I also tried to brush the edges of the inset on the stamp pad.

On this one, I cut out the little dragonflies and mounted them. I wanted a 3-D effect (like Jules's flower card), but I don't have any mounting pads, so I hole punched out some pieces of thick cardboard, and used them as mounts (just glued them on the back of the cutouts).

This one is also a bi-fold, but I went with ribbon as an opener instead of an overlapping inset.

I also had these really cute bee stickers, but for the longest time haven't been able to figure out what to do with them. I hand drew the "beehives" (not sure if they look right or not), and then cut them out and mounted them on the card. I had to hand draw the wording, so it is not very good.


Valentines

I wanted to make up some valentine cards, but I didn't have any good valentine paper, so instead, I took white cardstock, and used some stamps I have (heart, "love", and "XOXO") to randomly stamp the cardstock.




This one is a bi-fold, and the little inset overlaps the two halves.

This is just a regular quarter sheet sized card. Nothing fancy.