Starburst Series

This little series was inspired by Kristina Werner @ kwernerdesign.com - you can see the original card here.

A personalised good luck card for a friend who’s going to study abroad. The radial pattern idea was recreated by cutting out triangles of paper and pasting it on the card. 

The name ‘Eric’ is also hand-cut (letter stickers are so very expensive) - I typed out the name using the Varsity font in Word, and changed the font size before tracing the letters and transferring onto coloured paper, outlining and cutting out. You can also print it out for convenience, but I was rushing this and didn’t have a printer at hand.

And a star sticker was added, from a bunch of stickers I’ve had for a long time. :)

Should’ve done the radial pattern in shimmery paper though, that would have been much nicer. As it is, the glitter on this card was added by colouring my finger tip with a very watery silver pen (Uniball Signo, a priceless set I got from Japan years ago) and rubbing it over the paper. It creates a very subtle, shimmery effect, and is watery enough (like paint, without the wet-warping effect on paper) to spread out fairly evenly. 

Since I had paper left from the radial pattern cut-out from the card above, I decided to use it for another good luck card, again for another friend going overseas (EVERYONE’S LEAVING. :( )

Anyway, I changed the orientation of the card to landscape, to make it different, and pasted the pattern on. The cardstock is a glittery light blue. The ribbon banner is made from strips of paper cut from pages of an old Kinokuniya (one of the awesomest bookstores ever) Christmas catalogue (coincidentally, there was a part of an Archie Comics cover in my set of cut-outs, and this friend LOVES Archie Comics. Unfortunately it was covered up by the other elements). Tracing paper, cut to shape, was pasted over it to soften the colours. 

Like in the previous card, the letters for the name ‘Jo’ were hand-drawn with reference to the Varsity font, with some variations. They were then outlined in black Aqualip and white Signo pens (this is another new love of mine) to imitate the look of the font. I also traced ‘good luck’ from my computer screen using the font The Quickest Shift, then cut it out and pasted it onto kraft paper and cut a banner out of that too, before putting it all together on dimensional adhesive.

It’s a real pity the glittery parts don’t show up in photos, because they look amazing. :)