One of my husband's close friends had a birthday this week so I was tasked with creating a card and there's only one place to go for a card him and that's "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away".....
It was pretty simple really - I did him a storm trooper last year, but this year we went with Luke Skywalkers light saber. I found a decent image online and imported into the silhouette and used the trace facility to get the shape correct. It was then a case of simply cutting the outline from white card and colouring it with copics and metallic promakers. For the actual light part I used a strip of glitter card and added copic ink and a touch more glitter in the form of stickles. Before sticking to the black card base I added a "glow" using green perfect pearls. I finished with some green faux stitching using a sakura green glitter pen.
I'll link this up to this week's CASual Friday's challenge which is to use real or faux stitching
http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/cfc117.html
It was pretty simple really - I did him a storm trooper last year, but this year we went with Luke Skywalkers light saber. I found a decent image online and imported into the silhouette and used the trace facility to get the shape correct. It was then a case of simply cutting the outline from white card and colouring it with copics and metallic promakers. For the actual light part I used a strip of glitter card and added copic ink and a touch more glitter in the form of stickles. Before sticking to the black card base I added a "glow" using green perfect pearls. I finished with some green faux stitching using a sakura green glitter pen.
I'll link this up to this week's CASual Friday's challenge which is to use real or faux stitching
http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/cfc117.html
Such a clever card Tara....the light saber really looks like its lit up
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Tara - this is genius!! The sabre positively glows!! I'm sure it will be treasured too.
ReplyDeleteI really must use my cameo a bit more!
I love how you created the light! Gorgeous! And the stitched border is perfect. Thanks for playing along with us at CAS-ual Fridays!
ReplyDeleteSo unique..love it! Thanks so much for joining us at CAS-ual Fridays this week!
ReplyDeleteOh this is just brilliant Tara! I bet it went down a stormtrooper (oops sorry!) Vicky x
ReplyDeleteSuch an awesome card ... LOVE how you got the light saber to glow!!! Simple and striking, yet really appealing for the kids. Great balance. Thanks so much for joining the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge!
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