malistar37: February 2011

My handmade valentines day card for my <3

Didnt have enough time to go and shop for a present... :S
so i made a card instead.. it was supposed to be a pop up card..
but it turned out quite fail........
On saturday after returning from my mother's boss house at around 4pm i rushed to Lot One to get the coloured and "drawing block" paper from Popular. It started raining heavily after that... and i ran home with one hand holding the umbrella and the other hugging the materials in my hand.. I reached home drenched.. :s The back of my shirt was totally wet and my shoe was soaking wet..........
I quickly settled down and started on making the card at around 4.45pm.
I got the design template online and traced it out in illustrator.
My stupid printer decided not to work on that day and i had to draw out everything..
By then, it was already 5+pm..
I had to get it done before my mother came back which is around 8pm..
Made an envelope too cuz i couldnt find an envelope of the right size to fit the card at Lot One...
After cutting out the "pop-up hearts", i realised the measurements weren't same as the template's one so it couldn't "pop up". :c
Worse still, I cut a slit across one of the small hearts thinking that it would be able to intersect with the heart on the opposite side so that the hearts would pop-up when opened and in the end FAILED! :'(
Super upset at that time.. :C
Plus the edges of the hearts were very jagged from the cutting of the pen knife and scissors...
Luckily i chose not to give up.. cuz the next day, i tot of a wonderful idea to cover up those jagged edges... which was to use those blowpen and blow ink against those edges.
So, i happily went searching for my box of blowpens and i couldnt find it... TT
Ended up using colour pencil to colour the edges........
The end result turned out quite nice too. :)