Handmade Card #2

This is the second card I made this year. By then, I was already out of ideas. One tip while making cards is to know what the person likes. This friend of mine loves Sonic the Hedgehog and because of that, I decided to bring myself to another level of making handmade cards. This time, I tried a pop-up card. I searched online on how to make pop-up cards and I learnt the easiest way. The pop-up looks simple but measuring it accurately so that both sides show equal space was tough for me.

This is the front of the card. I thought that if I did something more, then, it would seem a little too much. My brother told me to not over-do things because I have the tendency of trying to fit all the good ideas into one. Yeap, it looks a little simple to me. One thing was for sure, I would never want to choose light yellow as my base because matching is difficult. I remember a friend telling me that if I used too many colours, then it's as if I have no idea what I was doing.

I love sewing!!! One day, I would like to try using buttons, ribbons and laces on cards. But, I've still got to figure out how I'm going to cover the costs of making these. :S I had fun doing this part because never did I imagined myself sewing so straight. It was tedious to measure every space and making marks for every 'X' but it is SATISFYING. =) =) =)

Okay, moving on the the inside of the card...
It looks like this! I used the carpet/cloth-like material for the mountains (dark green) and sponges for the sun and the mountains (light green). I'm not exactly a creative person when it comes to mountains. So, I opened my Picture Folder, and searched for one of the scenery I took when I was in South Africa. As for the clouds, I used normal coloured paper with different layers of white sponge wrapper.

Do you know the thing you use to wrap fragile things? One is called a bubble wrap and there is one more which looks like sponge. It can be used to wrap the TV to prevent scratches etc. But anyway, I bought one metre and I used up probably 20 x 20 cm since last year till now.

This is the side view. Get what I mean by pop-up? I'm yet to discover how the more complicated ones work. I shall one day!

Like everything else, there is a bookmark. =) But for his bookmark, I did not use any spongey material. I used purely paper only. It was a challenge to make ideas into reality.

This is how it looks like. Although, I think the capital letter 'E' would have been better because my small letter 'e' looks like my 'c'. =.= How to make this? It's simple.

First, you have to measure and cut strips (1 colour would do) of same width using a pen knife. Be careful while doing this. I think it is 0.5 for this one. I don't really remember. Then, get another paper (base) and make slits in between. The slits should be of equal spacing each and would be 0.5 as well. Then, the strips of paper are alternately weaved through the slits.

It would result in this. It reminded me of chess. When I was doing this, I thought back about my primary school where my art teacher was teaching the class and I always had a 'C' for art. Perhaps it is those 'C's which makes me want to improve myself in doing what I want and what I can do.

After that, I carefully cut out the alphabets using the pen-knife. =) I made two of it because I used the wrong colour combination. Maroon suits this much better than light purple.


And when I was done, I thought, 'Hey, this looks a little plain.' So, what I did and what you could do is add creativity to it. I cut the additional space above and below the name and sticked it on another paper or which I sticked that layer on top of another.

The above method was for bookmark attempt #2 because #1 didn't turn out as nice as I thought it would be. So, what is #1?

It is also similar to the idea in #2 which is weaving but just a different method.

As usual, cut strips of paper and slits. But, before all that, plan the number of boxes you are going to use.

Get what I mean?
This is the end result. And it took me quite a while before figuring out what was not right about this. I should have used 2 lines instead of 1 for every line. I would take up more space, but I suppose that thicker looks nicer. I'm not very sure about that but it still is an idea. =)