Valentine's Day

Card and envelope

Inside of Card

Front of card

Inside close up

Back of card

Thank You (can you see it??!)

One of my upcoming projects is making Valentine's Day cards. Here is the first one I've made so far! The front of the card has a star trail background with pink and purple circles on top. On the inside left page is a heart collage I made, leaving the right side blank for your message. The back (and the back of the envelope too) have a single circle on them. The pink and purple circles were originally a magazine photo of a rock face that was reflecting the sunset (I think).

Note: This card is made from blank cards I bought to upcycle/reuse, and the words "Thank You" are still sort of visible. I think every Valentine's Day card is a Thank You card too, so I decided it was a fine and good thing that the words are still visible!

Made in Portland with Love!

Also: appologies for not having Photoshop (I had some computer issues and I don't have photoshop back yet.) to crop the photos and make them look more wonderful.

Blue Bats greeting card

detail of bat picture

this is the back of the card the front of the card blank for halloween greetings, love notes, get well, happy birthday, whatever you need to say!

(circles show a little through the envelope)

(with light shining through it)

A batty magazine collage greeting card I made yesterday. The circles are hand cut and glued onto white heavy rag paper. The inside of the card is blank so you may write your own greeting. There are additional circles- one on the inside left of the card, and one on the back of the envelope. The content of the images are bats, roads, desert, and some trees. They are from random magazine images I've saved for several years.

Envelope is approximately 4.5in x 5.75in and the card is slightly smaller.

some objects may not be to scale...

i wasn't sure how this would turn out, but i really like it. (in color especially) so i'm excited for the zine/cd compilation! yay!

part tue- 6:30- 9:20 pm

this was due for class today, we started it on tuesday. we did rubbings with charcoal of texture we found around the classroom/halls of our building. then we found a picture in the newspaper we wanted to work with. mine was of girls in the miss america pageant, i think, in the 1950s? the actual picture is up there, in three parts: the girl in the bottom left corner, girl on the runway on the right corner, and then two girls half-way up on the right side. there was also an announcer man in a tux, speaking into a microphone, and with his hand pointing up.

anyways. we were supposed to do 4 studies of the image. so the sketch of the girl at the top left is one of those studies. and then the bottom part that fades from yellow orange red to blue was another study. that one i just did a blind contour of part of the drawing, and then later, cut that part out and colored it. some of the orange part is actually the pointing man. haha. um, so yeah, we used the studies, if we wanted, and then did collage. mine ended up being really collagey, but i like it.

i feel like the top right corner is still a little jumbled. i was looking through some collage papers i had and a magazine and kept finding things related to dresses, and so i just went with it. it was fun to do, i'm not really sure if it's what the teacher wanted us to do (sometimes i feel like she isn't clear), but i at least feel like it's almost to where i'm happy with it. i feel like some parts of it work well, and others might need something different.

(ps: i hate our camera..everythings fuzzy!!)