{"id":2153,"date":"2013-01-05T23:48:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T13:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.natashabarr.com\/blog\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2019-04-07T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T11:29:07","slug":"the-last-of-the-cards-december-birthday-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/made-by-me\/the-last-of-the-cards-december-birthday-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"The last of the cards! December birthday cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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December birthday cards<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Yes, it’s true – I’m wrapping up the card project with the end of 2012. It’s been fun creating so many different designs and illustrations for my friends and family and I feel I’ve learned a lot from the process. After two years though it’s time to move onto some new projects so I won’t be making any more cards (except for maybe a couple here and there ^_~).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from my Christmas cards<\/a>, I created three birthday cards for friends during December. All of them were handmade, with some even having a bit of interactivity (apart from the obvious opening and closing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Numbers Card<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

My last typography card for the year. My friend is an accountant so I figured why not use numbers! It was pretty fun thinking up all the different types of of to use to fill the design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Traced and ready for colour<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Watercolour done<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Inked and cut out<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Peasant Flick Card<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The history of the peasant flick goes way back to my high school days when it was created as an amusing pay out to one of our friends. I wanted to make this card a little more interactive and decided it should actually give the peasant flick!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I watched a few videos about creating basic pull tabs cards before having a go at creating my own. It’s a little more complex than you think!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I drew the hands digitally before printing it out and drawing on it directly to do corrections. They needed to be the same size so they could be glued together.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Behind the scenes – how it all worked inside.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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How it looked from the front before the hands were attached – the card had a back that glued around the internal workings to hide it from view<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Hands coloured in – my friend likes her fancy nail polishes so I did some funky green colours.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Hands cut out and glued onto the tab, also added some pattern work to the edges<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The final card – you pull the tab to make the hand flick from one side to the other<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Android Card<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This card was made for my boyfriend, who loves the android mascot. We even have a set of 4 plushies of him in all the available colours above our bedroom door ^_^. If you’ve ever watched videos of the android mascot at events, you’ll find he’s quite the dancer<\/a> and I wanted to base my card off this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using the same basic functionality from the last card, I created an android that danced from side to side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tracing the android – printer was out of ink so I had to create the picture to trace by hand!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Coloured in, now to make the pull tab card<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The internal workings of the card – much more complex than the peasant flick card with a lot of trial and error!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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How it looked from the front, the android is ready to be stuck on!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Finished, the android now dances from left to right. The added ‘boop beeps’ are in reference to a separate robot in-joke<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Get ready for some new projects in 2013! Also Happy New Year to everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, it’s true – I’m wrapping up the card project with the end of 2012. It’s been fun creating so many different designs and illustrations for my friends and family and I feel I’ve learned a lot from the process. After two years though it’s time to move onto some new projects so I won’t […]<\/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],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-made-by-me","tag-birthday","tag-card","tag-handmade"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","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=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6235,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions\/6235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}