{"id":1518,"date":"2012-03-21T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.natashabarr.com\/blog\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2019-05-08T22:40:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T12:40:40","slug":"birthday-card-for-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/made-by-me\/birthday-card-for-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Card for Dad!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dads Birthday Card<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while now. It was my Dad’s birthday a couple of weeks ago which meant I of course needed to make him a birthday card for the occasion!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took inspiration for the design from some Tudor lettering I discovered a while ago. I liked the way the ribbon weaved around the letters and wanted to make something that was similar yet a little more modern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Original Reference (blue letters)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Original Sketch<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Realigned and adjusted for tracing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Because of the detail in the letters and the small space it would need to fit into, my initial idea was to create the artwork at a larger size and then print it onto the smaller card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finished colouring<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

When I finished the letters, the ribbons didn’t really look like they wrapped around but instead they just looked like blocks of colour. What I decided to do was print out and trace the original lettering to get a ‘feel’ of how the ribbons curl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Comparing and drawing over the original reference<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

While the shapes were correct, my ribbons weren’t showing the curve from the front of the ribbon to the back so I needed to somehow better illustrate this. I decided to draw outlines, similar to the original reference, along the edges which highlighted the curve looping round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dad's
Outlines added to the first line – unlike the second word, it now looks like the ribbon wraps around, not just blocks of diagonal colour.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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This is how I drew all the thin lines- by sharpening this sucker down! These are just coloured pencils, I was originally usually watercolour pencils but the lead was too soft.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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All edges outlined!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I thought I had finished the card design and just had to print it. I even found more of the light textured card stock I thought had been all used up. Things were coming up Milhouse!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, my printer didn’t agree with this optimism and decided to print the card with a yucky green tinge. I didn’t have time to fix this so I started again, this time drawing directly onto the card. This was a lot harder than the first time because I had to scale down the letters to even smaller than before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Can you read it yet ^^? – Decided to be more colourful with yellow, orange and red edges<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Finished!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I actually ended up not drawing in the lines through the ribbon because I thought it actually looked better. Looking at it now though I think I should have stuck to my original plan ^^;.. I don’t think it’s that bad though and the my dad liked it anyway, which I think is the most important thing ^_^.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while now. It was my Dad’s birthday a couple of weeks ago which meant I of course needed to make him a birthday card for the occasion! I took inspiration for the design from some Tudor lettering I discovered a while ago. I liked the way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[33,34,35,99],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-made-by-me","tag-birthday","tag-card","tag-handmade","tag-typography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6264,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/6264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}