I've alluded to WOMOTM's 60+20th* birthday celebrations a few times and so I thought I'd share his birthday card on here. I've suffered card-making ennui over the last couple of months, mainly due to the fact, it's a right old faff finding the two keys, putting shoes on and heading out to the shed, shielding myself from the rain, braving spiders of gargantuan proportions in order to seek craft supplies and groping around in the dark (light doesn't work). That doesn't even go into the fact I can't find a thing due to it all being in a random mess!
Nonetheless, WOMOTM was worth the effort and so I bravely survived the spider/dark/wet-long frass ordeal and sought supplies in order to make him a card. I knew I wanted to make a 3D-looking camera, as WOMOTM is very fond of photography. I glanced at a camera picture on the internet and cobbled this up out of black card. The lens was built up about of 4 black circles of card, layered on top of each other with 3d sticky tape and then the silver and black ones placed on top. I embossed the lines at the top and bottom and went over them (stupidly first with pencil- hence the smudging) and then with silver pen to add more dimensions. Finally, I tried to draw on the telescopic lens and added the Happy Birthday sticker and a drawn on strap,
It's not my favourite card I've ever made, but it seemed to pass muster as it has made it long term onto WOMOTM's mantlepiece according to a lovely e-mail from him (only select items stay there permanently)
* We were asked not to elude to the actual number- hence the maths...
Linking to Creative Mondays with Claire Justine
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