{"id":1604,"date":"2012-04-28T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.natashabarr.com\/blog\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2019-05-08T22:38:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T12:38:23","slug":"april-birthday-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/made-by-me\/april-birthday-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"April Birthday Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"April
April Birthday Cards<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Well the title pretty much says it all ^_^. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been busy putting together cards for a family member and friend. I did a bit better job of taking WIP screenshots this time ^^;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Birthday Card for Nanny<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

My nan, affectionally known as ‘nanny’, has been giving me and my sister gifts she hand painted for as long as I can remember. I’ve always admired her work so I wanted to emulate it while also incorporating my own style. I got my sister to take a picture of one of my nan’s painted works and send it to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"April
Original painting that my nan painted for me – sorry about the low quality!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I traced the parts of the painting I wanted to use and put them together around the words ‘for Nanny’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"April
Mockups – removed the stems because I didn’t like them<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"April
Tracing mockup – I usually use bobby pins instead of paper clips, they’re a lot better at holding paper in place<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"April
Watercolours added – removed the red in the small petals<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"April
Finished! I find my cards really come to life after they’re inked, what do you think?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Pretty chuffed with how this card came out despite my noobery in drawing flower petals ^^;. It’s also probably one of my favourite cards to make so far \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suzanne Birthday Webpage<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I wasn’t able to make it to a friend’s birthday party so I figured I would do another birthday message on a webpage for her. I originally chose to create a mouse arrow, since she’s a web designer and it’s featured in her twitter display pic :P. Once I finished the arrow, I still wasn’t happy with how the webpage looked. I decided I would create another typography piece to go along with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"April
Original sketch<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"April
WIP – still need to correctly align the words<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"April
Details finished and word realigned<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"April
Played a bit of the colours, added in the mouse arrow and Voila!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Though it was a little late, I managed to get the piece finished and uploaded, which you can check out online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can’t believe we’re already one third through the year! A lot more cards to create yet though ^_^. Which has been your favourite card creation so far?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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