When I joined the group I vowed to draw at least a little on each card -- and then didn't follow through with that. Drawing is something you have to practice to do well, DUH! I'm very out of practice. (I guess I did draw a few wavy lines on the Celebrate Life cards.) This month I had lots of ideas for the black and white theme, but settled on drawing. I have a fear of drawing! And I used to love to draw.
So I got some black ATC stock (hey there's half the color combo right there ;-). I punched the edges with a fancy triple corner punch my DH found at Goodwill recently. Then while looking for a small circle punch I found a spongey flower stamp cube, so I stamped one of them onto the center of the card with white chalk ink, which dries fairly quickly.
Next, I got some white and silver scrapbooking paper and punched little hearts out of it. 18 of them to be exact. Well, 20 in case I flubbed a couple. I just used glue dots to attach them to the card, centered over the flower "rays." Then I put little silver rhinestone heart stickers in the centers of the paper hearts. Sinfully easy so far...
To warm up, I doodled on a couple of cards to see which white marker worked the best. I prefer the strong white of correcting pens, but they're uncomfortable to hold and draw smoothly with. Especially when you're making bunches of ATC's at once! I'm left-handed so rolling ball pens (such as the gel pen I settled on) don't always work well. I found that if I drew very, very slowly, the ink flow was better.
Most of the time, I started with a border around the fancy edges, and by the time I was done I'd have an idea for the centers. I tried to think of various ways to "treat" the heart motif -- kind of like those improvisational comedians who take a prop and do various funny things with it.
Yeah, drawing skills are defnitely a "use it or lose it" kinda thing. LOL, I was surprised by how rusty mine have become when I decided to "whip up" a new logo!
ReplyDeleteBTW, I really like these cards. The one in the upper right and the one in the lower left are my favorites :)
Thank you Drea. 8-) I'm ok with 'em -- and your faves are my faves actually. -M
ReplyDeleteThey look great. Black and white is hard to do a lot of and still be creative. (Maybe it's just me with black and white). Eighteen is a large number to do.
ReplyDeleteHey Miz Bird 8-)
ReplyDeleteThis is a large group most months -- so my goal is always around 18 to 20 and whatever I get done, I get done. They go fast! I kind of enjoy moving through several at once, thinking of ways to to "production" tricks and still try to come up with something somebody else might want!