Puffin Breakout

I’m not very good at cute cards. I love ‘em, don’t get me wrong, but I think I’m a bit heavy handed when it comes to light touches and cute stuff. Anyway, in this fleeting self examination, I have determined that I am attracted to a nice strong keyline and they usually appear around images that are more fun in terms of description. Once stamped, I like to colour in. I guess that’s me not straying far from the first card making experience I ever had! 

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.