Making of my New Year's cards
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beelikejNow that everyone on my snailmail list received their cards, I thought it was time for a look behind the scenes of those holiday wishes! I made two main designs for my New Year's cards: a fandom version and a neutral happy 2015 version, both papercuts out of sparkly paper that I had printed one sided with colour (blue, green, purple and a stripey set up with all three colours) and cut to A5 size (148x210mm). Here's what I did with these pieces of paper...
Doodle sketches and on the right the template I made on the computer. I used a combination of convention photos to get Jensen and Jared's silhouette shapes. The font I used for 2015 is the Cambria Bold, which I stretched vertically.
I traced the template onto the cards. This is a first test (as you can tell by the oopsie-cut in the five, I started out before I figured out to mirror the numbers...) I cut the faces with scissors, the numbers with an exacto knife. In my hand I'm holding the bonefolder.
The basic idea is that as a 'landscape' the 2015 is covered with piles of snow; while as a 'portrait', the profiles of Jensen and Jared are revealed (or Dean and Sam if you prefer:)
For a more festive look, I added firework-sparks. When all the cards were cut, I had a lot of left over numbers. I used those for a third (and fourth) design.
But let me first show you main design number 2:
Using the same template for the numbers, this time I cut an outline. In the photo on the right you can see the effect of the printed colours on the back of the card.
After cutting I folded the card in half, then I pushed the mirrored numbers through the slit I had cut on the opposite side.
On the other side the coloured letters turned out readable again and offer a contrast with the white background: tadaah! (I also used this folding trick in in the banner I made for the J2_SPN_BigBang2014:)
Then I opened the hidden hatch to write my new year's wishes. On the J2 card I wrote it horizontally (to emphasize the snow-version for fangirls who were not out to friends and family;)
Remember the numbers I had left over from the first design? Here's what I did with those:
I glued them in two different set ups and made landscape/horizontally folded cards and portrait/vertically folded cards.
Forgot to mention that the colours I chose for the cards are the same three colours that feature in my apartment. They all come together in the lines on the wall in my livingroom: green from the kitchen, blue from the bathroom and purple from my bedroom. (This was actually accidental, I swear I thought I had randomly chosen a combination of colours for the cards!)
Of course I also cut sparkle-stars in these cards as a finishing touch.
Hope you got the card you liked best:)
J.
P.S. Maybe you missed it due to other art-projects: I posted another nsfw drawing last weekend! If you did see it, but were scared away by the kink, I want to reassure you that it's a very mild version of watersports; a dressed Jared is merely watching a dressed Jensen take a leak. Since I tried a different technique again, I'd love to know what fellow artists think of it, it's also animated!
Doodle sketches and on the right the template I made on the computer. I used a combination of convention photos to get Jensen and Jared's silhouette shapes. The font I used for 2015 is the Cambria Bold, which I stretched vertically.
I traced the template onto the cards. This is a first test (as you can tell by the oopsie-cut in the five, I started out before I figured out to mirror the numbers...) I cut the faces with scissors, the numbers with an exacto knife. In my hand I'm holding the bonefolder.
The basic idea is that as a 'landscape' the 2015 is covered with piles of snow; while as a 'portrait', the profiles of Jensen and Jared are revealed (or Dean and Sam if you prefer:)
For a more festive look, I added firework-sparks. When all the cards were cut, I had a lot of left over numbers. I used those for a third (and fourth) design.
But let me first show you main design number 2:
Using the same template for the numbers, this time I cut an outline. In the photo on the right you can see the effect of the printed colours on the back of the card.
After cutting I folded the card in half, then I pushed the mirrored numbers through the slit I had cut on the opposite side.
On the other side the coloured letters turned out readable again and offer a contrast with the white background: tadaah! (I also used this folding trick in in the banner I made for the J2_SPN_BigBang2014:)
Then I opened the hidden hatch to write my new year's wishes. On the J2 card I wrote it horizontally (to emphasize the snow-version for fangirls who were not out to friends and family;)
Remember the numbers I had left over from the first design? Here's what I did with those:
I glued them in two different set ups and made landscape/horizontally folded cards and portrait/vertically folded cards.
Forgot to mention that the colours I chose for the cards are the same three colours that feature in my apartment. They all come together in the lines on the wall in my livingroom: green from the kitchen, blue from the bathroom and purple from my bedroom. (This was actually accidental, I swear I thought I had randomly chosen a combination of colours for the cards!)
Of course I also cut sparkle-stars in these cards as a finishing touch.
Hope you got the card you liked best:)
J.
P.S. Maybe you missed it due to other art-projects: I posted another nsfw drawing last weekend! If you did see it, but were scared away by the kink, I want to reassure you that it's a very mild version of watersports; a dressed Jared is merely watching a dressed Jensen take a leak. Since I tried a different technique again, I'd love to know what fellow artists think of it, it's also animated!
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Date: 2015-01-21 12:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-21 01:52 pm (UTC)I feel so damn stupid but on the upside I got to dig it out of the pile of Xmas cards I'd already taken down and squee over it all over again. Because this is awesome! Wow. Thank you so much for all the work you put into this. *squishes*
Felis, the embarrassingly blind bat.
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Date: 2015-01-21 03:30 pm (UTC)that is just an immense amount of work you did, it would be one thing to do it once but repeating it over and over and over. Woman, you are dedicated to your craft♥
.....and for future wondering, I am as out as out can be with my friends and family. I refuse to hide myself.
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Date: 2015-01-21 06:03 pm (UTC)It has a place of honour on my fridge door!
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Date: 2015-03-01 03:05 pm (UTC)Seeing this makes me realize how dedicated you are to creating such beautiful things for us!
My card is still hanging up at work by my desk. My boss and co-worker know that I'm into SPN and in the fandom so they haven't even asked about it, just oohed and ahhed over how clever and pretty it is. :)
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Date: 2015-03-02 04:02 pm (UTC)