Fun with Fonts Friday: Birthday & Anniversary cards

Hurray! My printers back in commission thanks to my sis who bought a new black ink cartridge. It was too easy of a solution but, I'll take it!

Pop-up Spongebob is 1/2 way done but I had to quickly whipped up a birthday card and an anniversary card for calendar events that are quickly approaching. The result - more fun with lots of fonts!

It's Not Alive!: Printer go bye bye

I am so bummed. This is probably what I deserve for being too lazy and not caring enough about my leaky ceiling from the freak storm last week.

Last night when I tried to print my DIY Spongbob pop-up card for D's nephew, my printer, which happened to get dripped on, gave me a weird error. What do you mean "Remove and check cartridge on right"???

Please printer Gods, bring my HP photo printer back to life! My crafts depend on you! Should I try to make a Grilled Jesus and pray like Fynn did on Glee last night?

Anyway, before I discovered my comatosed printer, I was creating a Spongbob pop-up card template using one of the papercrafts as a baseline. Spongebob obviously also had to have a message to deliver so Google led me to some cool sites that have Free Speech Bubble Brushes for GIMP, Spongebob fonts and Disney fonts. I had to brush up on how to install brushes into GIMP but in the end, i'm happy with the results. Now, if only I could print the damn thing! No printed project, no pictures. :-(

Birthday Card Alternative: Papercrafts!

A birthday card can only impress a seven year old so much. So, I consulted with my oracle Google and stumbled on fabulous birthday 'card' alternatives for the highly imaginative mind of a 7 year old.

I printed this guy two weeks ago but I've been too intimidated to go hand-to-exacto-knife ... until now! Not too shabby! Now I have to figure out how to get it into an envelope.

Papercrafts!

Cubecrafts

Wedding Cards: Four Weddings Part II

I really should have been sleeping last night. But look at all the pretty fonts, flock, distress ink and paper!!

Fonts: Hurricane, Sunshine in My Soul, KR Heartalicious, Flower Ornaments

Wedding Cards: Four Weddings and a Font Affair

The results:

Fonts: Scriptina, KR Heartalicious, American Typewriter, Porcelain

Birthday Boarding Card: All Aboard!

Why iDIY stopped posting is beyond me. iDIY, I patiently wait for your return. In the mean time, I shall rummaged through older postings.

And rummage I did. I was looking for DIY birthday card ideas and almost always, my search in Google Reader takes me to iDIY. The boarding pass template looked the most promising but two late nights after work, and three boarding pass birthday cards later, I convinced myself it wasn't blog worthy. That was about a month ago.

I still don't think it's blog worthy but what the heck - my craftings / digital imagings have been few. Here's the result:

References:

Template: Boarding Pass Template

Image: The World of Dress

Paper: Print Icon

Sewing Printed Pattern Envelopes Reproduced and Repurposed

Once upon a time, there were Printed Patterns (apparently they still exist today but up until a minute ago, before I consulted with Google, I thought it was a thing of the past). I still remember wandering the fabric store isles with my mom rummaging through McCall's Printed Patterns. Half the time the patterns she liked were open and incomplete or weren't her size. Nevertheless, the memory of the patterns is forever engrained in my mind.

So, for my mom's birthday, when it came time to looking for images to use on a DIY birthday card and envelope, I eventually settled on a sewing pattern, a picture of a sewing machine and finally, a McCall's Printed Pattern Envelope.

Who'd have known that McCall Sewing Pattern Envelope images would be so readily available in high resolution? I'm tempted to make a ton of printed envelopes using reproductions of McCall's Pattern Envelopes just to stock up!

Oh the possibilities!

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