Fire and Blood

A birthday card for another Game of Thrones fan - a House Targaryen dragon-lover. :) The Targaryen dragon was referenced from a banner online - traced and cut by hand from brown cardstock. Not fun. I later outlined it in clear Aqualip and shaded in some details using Copic markers. Some glitter was added for effect.

To embellish the base card, I went around the card using the point of a circle compass and then threaded red cross-stitch thread through, for the ‘fire and blood’ element. 

The dragon was attached using foam adhesive too add dimension. I mildly regretted this decision when I got to the tiny parts like the forked tongues and cursed having to cut pieces of foam tape small enough to fit onto them without being visible. 

The greeting was written on tracing paper with one of the LoTR fonts - First Order, I think, I screwed up slightly and smudged the still-wet Aqualip ink - and I cut the backing strip out of an old Kinokuniya catalogue page. I then folded it and trimmed both ends into a ribbon ‘v’ to make it look like a banner. 

Once again, inspired by Kristina Werner's circle cards: see example here. I don't have any special circle cutters, so I improvised by folding a piece of cardstock in half, then using a circle compass (from the geometry set I used during secondary school Mathematics!) to draw an almost-circle - leaving a 'hinge' at the folded part of the card.

Kristina uses such beautiful round dies to cut out lace backgrounds and such, but I improvised by using the snowflake kirigami technique to cut a circular pattern out of tissue paper, and pasted it on. I then built layers using tracing paper, old catalogue paper, and sentiments cut from a Paperchase Christmas wrapping paper.

Merry Christmas

A Christmas card inspired by Kristina Werner's Washi Tape Christmas Tree. Since washi tape is pretty out of my budget, I used leftover strips of green paper and tore them carefully to create the jagged edge effect, before giving each strip a light coat of Pentel Silver Poster Colour for shimmer effect. I glued a piece of white string down and arranged the green strips over it, adhering them using foam adhesive. The presents were cut out from random scraps and wrapped with string.

For the sentiment, I'd actually bought a beautiful gold-on-kraft wrapping paper with framed Christmas sentiments all over it from Paperchase, picked one of the sentiments and cut it out, putting it on a brown cardstock background and pasting it on. The tree was decorated using a gold star and fuchsia sequins, and glitter glue.

To The Lovely Gentleman

Birthday card for a lovely gentleman in our class with a love for all things classically British. 

Black cardstock, cut to shape using a rough template of a top hat printed off the Internet, and outlined in copious amounts of black Aqualip. Cream cardstock cut out in the shape of a hat-band, and pasted on. The Union Jack was printed out and attached to a pin I sourced from my sewing kit, and the letter ‘Q’ is an alphabet sticker.

The whole thing was given a very light coat of Pentel Pearl Silver poster colour (if you dilute it enough it gives a satiny sheen to the background paper without colouring it silver).

Window Card

Fairly frequently done so it’s not a particularly original idea, but it’s an easy way to make something very pretty. 

Window frame and window flower box cut out from cream textured card, the flowers and little butterflies were punched out from various coloured papers and pasted on. The green vines were drawn on using green Aqualip pen. The larger butterflies were cut using a pattern printed off the internet as I don’t have a large butterfly punch. The curtains were cut from patterned card and the ties are leather strips. 

The banner inside the card was made like the previous ones, just cut out and written on. 

For a friend who has been sad lately, in hopes that something pretty will cheer her up, even if only by a little.  

Nyan!

 Remind me never to try recreating a pixelated character again. 

Nyancat birthday card, made from a multitude of coloured cards - the cat itself was made from a black card as a base, cut to shape, with the beige, pink and grey areas cut to fit so that the black outline would show. 

I take no credit for the general idea - it was a semi-recreation of another longer card Nyancat card I saw online.

For another cat-crazy friend. :)

Just Married

For my dear cousin whose wedding I could not attend. :( Little surprise in the mail~

She mentioned before that she really liked my previous giraffe thank-you card, so I decided that she’d have a giraffe wedding card. Same giraffe template used as before, except that I had a bow for the groom - and I cut up a small white lace doily that I’ve been saving for ages, ad pleated it to make the veil and the ‘dress’. 

The white textured card was expensive (!) paper, bought from a specialist paper shop in MidValley, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The note section inside the card is simply tracing paper. I used a dove-hearts border punch at the bottom and then secured the tracing paper using tiny brads. 

Winter is Coming

Birthday card for a Game of Thrones fan - although I’m not entirely sure if House Stark is her favourite. 

The idea was to have a ‘House Stark’ banner with her initial/name on it. The insignia was referenced from a great Game of Thrones poster I saw somewhere - please tell me if you know the original artist.

Three layers - black base, turquoise layer (her favourite colour is turquoise), and the white banner. I cut a window through the turquoise card for the sentiment. little details added using white Pilot Choose and translucent Aqualip. 

Ribbons and Gifts

Fairly simple birthday card made using shimmery, pale yellow cardstock for the base plus a lace-edge cut out using pattern scissors. 

The 3D ribbon bow was made from shimmery red paper following origami instructions easily available online (it’s really easy, and turns out amazingly beautifully). The ribbon ‘wrapping’ the front of the card are just strips of the same paper cut and pasted on. 

The gift tag was actually a recycled clothes sizing tag, in good condition, and the flower cake is a reused pattern drawn on in fine lineart pen and coloured with red Aqualip. 

Swirl designs were added to give subtle decoration to the base card, using white (clear) Aqualip pen. 

Toothless Wants Cake

This one took me a long time to figure out. (Needs to put some effort in to researching paper engineering and pop-up cards) Somehow I never get Toothless’ expressions right! :( 

Made using a lot of cardstock - one sheet of dark blue, one sheet grey, one sheet brown for the backing (of which the edges can be seen in the photos. I used the kirigami eagle card pack shown here - spending a few hours staring at the sample photos and haphazardly putting my own version together - not really a kirigami as I used a ton of adhesive and glue. >.< But oh well. It worked out in the end. His tail design was drawn on in white Pilot Choose pen. 

I WANT A NIGHTFURY PET.