I made a card for my Uncle’s birthday. I was in a clean, summery mood, so a made a super-simple and bright birthday card. Here’s the front:
And on the back (leaving room for writing, which I did with a brown gel pen):
Done in Illustrator, with ITC Avant Garde Gothic. Happy birthday to my uncle! And yours too, whenever his is.
Mother’s Day is an annual celebration. This year, I made my mom a mix cd of songs I thought she might like. I made liner notes; the proof of which is below:
I made these using Photoshop and Illustrator. The script font is Emily and the font used for the song list is ITC Avant Garde Gothic.
Our special mother’s day activity was going to see Star Trek on its opening weekend. In honor of this sacred and special event, I made a commemorative mother’s day card:
It was a one-sided deal. I made it all in Illustrator. The font is Huxley Vertical. I harvested the art from House Industries’ Vectagrams, part of the House 3009 font family.
A couple other headlines for the card that I considered:
“You boldly go where no mother has gone before!” (Sounded dirty)
“Mhaaaaaam!” (Too obscure?)
Star Trek was awesome, by the way. A perfect mother’s day treat.
I can’t stop making collages!
This one’s about four friends who are planning on taking over the world, for nefarious purposes. Their plans include: making everyone bake them cupcakes every day, drinking up all the tea, and forcing people to listen to Randy Newman all the time. This is the scene where they’re walking down the street in slow motion.
How: Collage and pencil on paper, colored in Photoshop, with little graphic bits added too.
The collaging just did not stop this weekend. Gab and I worked on some more cutting and pasting yesterday evening.
And here’s Gab’s:
He let me do the background. The finger fangs are genius.
How we did: collage and pencil on paper, with some color and stuff added in Photoshop. Post title pun courtesy of Gab.
Oh what a lovely Saturday! It involved some collaging. I cut up some lady-type magazines and got a little crafty. So these three girls arrive to a party and they’re kind of nervous and they’re about to say hi to the hostess and then get their first cocktails of the evening. But first, they’re greeted by a little lamp deer and a flying pink hotdog. It’s gonna be a good party!
How I did it: collage and pencil on paper, with some additional graphic stuff and color added in Photoshop.
Happy new year, everyone! I hope 2009 brings you everything you’re hoping for, including: free jars of icing, lots of radio listening, millions of mars daydreams, kindness from strangers, smiles from doggies, and finding hidden candy corn.
Here’s the thank you card I made for everyone who was especially kind to me over the holidays:
Exciting close up!!!!:
Based on the little faces doodles I did a little while ago, which I drew over and colored in Illustrator. Then mounted on blue card stock.
Here’s a one-sided thank you card I made. I wrote in the 2nd frame with a nice brown pen. It was awesome.
You can use it for your own thank you cards if you want! Don’t sell it on the thank-you-card black market. Everyone deserves to be thanked for something. Click to make larger, yeah.
A day late to posting, but I was a day early to giving, haha! I hope everyone had a fine Father’s Day. Here’s the card I made for my awesome dad:
Pattern & text (Adobe Garamond) done in Illustrator. Texture is from a wash I did using moist tissue paper and allowing it to get all wacky. I printed the whole shebang on cream card stock, wrote on the back, and stuck it in a yellow envelope. I like that it turned out to be a little bit disorienting, similar to that classic optical illusion. Scintillating!
Here is the Mother’s Day card & envelope I made for my awesome mom:
Materials used: colored card stock, Komon print Chiyogami paper, Aitoh mesh orgiami paper, white gel pen. Lettering is gel pen over Adobe Garamond Pro. Oh, how I love you, white gel pen! Less than I love my mom, but a lot.
This is a monster holding the card & envelope I made today. I recommend using white gel pens. No gloomy mood is impervious to the opaque, smooth glide of white ink. You can get them at one of my favorite internet stores: jet pens. I also recommend Bionicles. Oh man, I wish the bionicle were wearing a monocle.
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