I'll also upload a photo of a card that I made for my brother's birthday. I was impressed with how well it came out as I'm not the greatest at drawing, but it's pretty f'ing good, if I do say so myself!

*Willow*

[Erti]

Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23

I'll also upload a photo of a card that I made for my brother's birthday. I was impressed with how well it came out as I'm not the greatest at drawing, but it's pretty f'ing good, if I do say so myself!

*Willow*

Oh, do so. I love looking at other peoples art work.

[Sometimes psychotic]

Originally Posted by Erti

Oh, do so. I love looking at other peoples art work.

I agree.......

Originally Posted by Erti

Oh, do so. I love looking at other peoples art work.

Well, idk if I'd call it art work really, it's a birthday card to me... The drawing was to upload to my cricut explore cutting machine (which is super cool btw!) for it to cut out the picture in red card, to stick on top of my gold base card.

I'll try to upload it now with my phone so you can see what I'm talking about, but it's more fiddly than on my laptop, so I won't do the holiday pictures until the weekend when I'm home.

*Willow*

Ok, so this is the drawing. Although it didn't photograph well because the lines aren't different densities like it appears. I copied it from an Iron Man picture I found on google:


And this is the finished card after the image was cut out by my cricut explore:


My brother loves Iron Man and it's his 30th birthday so I wanted to make something special. Hopefully, he will like it! It took several days to do, over the space of a month.

*Willow*

[stahrgeyzer]

Today was one of those days when they Universe was finally nice to me. It just seemed like everything went so well, filled with good luck. I wish every day was like this!

[Sometimes psychotic]

Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23

Ok, so this is the drawing. Although it didn't photograph well because the lines aren't different densities like it appears. I copied it from an Iron Man picture I found on google:


And this is the finished card after the image was cut out by my cricut explore:


My brother loves Iron Man and it's his 30th birthday so I wanted to make something special. Hopefully, he will like it! It took several days to do, over the space of a month.

*Willow*

Wow that is so high quality....looks like a printed card 😀

[Erti]

lookin' good lookin' good.

Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic

Wow that is so high quality....looks like a printed card 😀

Thank you No, it's really just red card glued on top of gold card.

Honestly, it was a bit of a headache at times due to spatial issues with the drawing (I'm not great at spatial problems, and I had to try to imagine what bits I wanted the machine to leave and which to cut out, so it took a few versions to get it right) and then multiple technical issues with the scanning and uploading.

My brother isn't massively appreciative of handmade cards, so it will likely be on his mantelpiece for a few days and then be put out for recycling with all of the others. But I enjoyed making it (mostly, technical issues aside), and my parents and other brother thought it is good too, and it is his 30th, so I thought I would.

Mostly I made it to realise the idea I had in my head, rather than because he will really appreciate it...so maybe it IS art! Lol

*Willow*

Originally Posted by Erti

lookin' good lookin' good.

Thank you, Erti

*Willow*

[Sometimes psychotic]

[Findingreason]

Picture from my walk earlier.

[unsure123]

My niece

[Sometimes psychotic]

A few things from today....

[12AM]

Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic

A few things from today....

I especially like the lake picture. It looks so beautiful, calming. Thanks for sharing SP

Had a GREAT time on holiday in Lanzarote! It's soooo beautiful there! Sorry that it's taken me so long to post photos, but I seem to have had migraine after migraine since I got back.

























*Willow*

*Willow*

There was a carnival the weekend that we were there and it was AMAZING! The costumes were so good!







These 2 made me laugh!














*Willow*

And then I got home to freezing cold and SNOW! It's so cold in my flat (2 degrees centigrade!) that the condensation on the inside of my windows froze! Pretty though...





Warming up by a pub fire after braving the snow:


*Willow*

Treated myself to a bromeliad today. It's soooo pretty! I've wanted one for ages



*Willow*