Panda!

Second part of commission. A card for a panda lover... which didn't turn out like I originally envisioned it, but ended up being pretty damn cute anyway. 

I hand-sketched a panda face and cut it out to use as a template for the base card (China White) that was folded in half with a small hinge left on top for the card to open. The separate bits - ears, eyes, nose and mouth were cut out of dark Mocha cardstock (I'd completely forgotten to buy black, but this colour worked well too) and pasted on.

For the inside of the card, I used letter stickers to make the word 'panda', and I drew a cupcake on a separate sheet of cardstock, coloured it in with Copics and Aqualip, cut it out and put it on with foam adhesive.

The face can be flipped to the back so that the inside is displayed with the ears still visible :)

Be fabulous: Drink coffee!

Birthday card for my bestie, who is a coffee (read: Starbucks) fanatic. >.< The flower used for the outside of the card is a cut-out, using the same technique as cut-out snowflakes (Google is really useful here), except I rounded the outside edges instead of making it pointy. To fill up the empty space, I glued rows of fuchsia sequins extending from the tip of each petal - one of my new favourite ways of jazzing up cards.

The 'be fabulous' sentiment is a rub-on that I bought a few years ago in a specialist crafts shop in Singapore (on sale!!). I put it on white cardstock, and completed the sentiment with 'and drink coffee', which was handwritten on a thin strip of kraft paper with black Aqualip pen.

The little coffee cup (ADORABLEEEE) was hand-drawn and cut out of white cardstock, outlined in black Aqualip and coloured in with red Gelly Roll pen. Loose glitter was then glued onto the heart.

The big paper cup inside was again, cut out of white cardstock, the cover from shimmery red paper, while the cardboard holder is an actual Starbucks cup holder I'd saved and decorated with flower punch-outs. I added a little pocket made from patterned tissue paper and cut a mug-shaped card slipped inside with my message. 

Pusheen: Eat Everything!

A little Pusheen hand-made notebook (character does not belong to me!!!!) made for a friend’s birthday gift. It is a near-replication of a GIF of Pusheen. Blue textured card and regular A4 white paper (cut down to size) used. All the details were cut out of different-coloured paper and coloured in/decorated where necessary.