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Saturday, January 20, 2018

Art Making Time: Custom Art Cards - How I Made Dad's 70th Birthday!

Yes, I have been sharing a lot of two dimensional polymer clay pieces lately. Makes sense because I love creating with that medium. Since HeArtfully Creating is all about Creativity in multidisciplinary areas, I do tend to focus on what I love doing the most at the time.

Well, yesterday, I was looking through old videos I had made hoping to make an advice/ tutorial type piece. It is pretty common to collect footage of so many ideas, that build and build and before you now it, you can't keep up. So it all gets shelved until five years later. So here is my recent discovery. Art advice and tutorials thankfully, are timeless and have value.

Here is a ten minute video about how you can make an effective personalized greeting card. This one was for my Dad's 70th (He is about to turn 75!) These days I have been working in digital format, so this video is all about making art the old fashioned way, fine tip marker, copic markers, pencil, illustration board and my old favourite, PRISMACOLOR Colored pencils.

Hope you learn a bit about what makes a personalized custom greeting card special. To give credit where credit is due, It was my sister Teresa, who first asked me decades ago, to start making custom cards. She gave me the ideas and I drew them on cardstock or board. People would often tell me that they framed their cards. Can't get more special than that.

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Purposeful or Functional Art: Personalized Greeting "Cards"- Part 2

A Work in progress, not complete. Illustration by Anita Berglund

Okay, I shared just a few examples of the original greeting cards I made years ago using traditional methods. Remember paper, pencils and markers! These days I have bee using my computer to draw and paint images. Something that I started out doing for fun was to take photos of friends and family and open the photo up into a drawing/painting app like Sketchbook Express. And then....I just embellished a lot! Adding costumes and backgrounds. So you can see some of the process I am posting a series of before, during and to the finished result images.
Print Anywhere!?
What is great about digitalizing your work by drawing digital or scanning your work into a jpeg file, you can email your personalized, original art work to the recipients. And they can do what they want with it including making it wallpaper on their computer, print it out in whatever size it can be. If you go to printing web sites you will see original images on t-shirts, mugs, posters, calendars, pins, pretty much anything you can print on. That is something you might want to consider if you want to make gift that way.
Have Fun!
When you create heArtfully, you are enjoying, even loving what you are doing and that means it won't feel like a chore. As well people care if you take time to create something personalized just for them. So if you don't already make your own cards and gifts, I encourage you to.
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