I’m not great at light colours either, definitely drawn to brights and strongs. No harm with that, but sometimes I do frustrate myself. I recently invested in a set of pastel felt tips (by Zebra) to help me with this plight.
If you read WOYWW posts you’ll remember that I brought a pyramid card home from a workshop, to be finished. Well, I did! Not quite a first, but certainly the most timely finish I’ve ever got around to! These lovely puffins (SU) are about as cute as I get - and actually probably fill the fun description rather than cute - and you can see the nice, easy to colour outlines - just the job for me.
I used the new pastel felt tips for the first time. Some of them are more like highlighters to be honest, but that’s ok, particularly on cards like this where you’re trying to project a bit of fun. What I did immediately notice though, was that between pen and eye and brain, I wasn’t enjoying the light application…I went over everything twice just to increase saturation/depth, I dunno, call it what you will, to make it less, well, pastel! 
The ribbon tie makes the card easy to send because it lies flat, and hopefully, at the receiver’s end, the ribbon makes it obvious that it needs some assembly. By which I mean following the fold and tying the bow, I don’t think it needs instructions for the recipient. Wait till I send it to someone and I’ll report back! Making this card was much much easier than we all thought it was going to be…I won’t do the details here, but if you do want to know, I’ll happily do a post showing the pieces and etc, because I want to make a couple more with the upcoming season in mind.
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4 comments:
This is adorable. You did a great job with those felt tips. The mail rates limit us so much with layered cards. Thanks for posting. Have a great weekend.
a fabulous card, I'd love to see how it was made. I love the colours.
I'd also like to see how it was made and how it unfolds. Sylvia is right about thickness of our first class letters. The PO has a slider they pass the card through to make sure it isn't too thick. However, my friend Sharon and I sent a bunch of napkins to participants across the pond and all passed through the slider. There is more room than Sylvia imagines, I suspect.
This is adorable!
Carol N
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