Sunday, March 28, 2010

i used almost the entire pack of stickers on one card


and i am fine with that!

see, the way i look at it, i have two hobbies: buying art supplies--which i enjoy very much--and making stuff, which is also fun! the fact that hobby #2 makes excellent use of the things acquired via hobby #1 is an *AWESOME* bonus, in my opinion!!! and when you consider that hobby #2 also allows me to save $2.50 a pop on boring flat store-bought greeting cards, i figure i am up on the deal! :)

so do you want to see the card with all the stickers on, then? cool. here it is:



(patterned paper: basic grey & sei; stickers: sandylion; chipboard: fancy pants; inkjet transparency: embossing folder: cuttlebug; staples; pens: sharpie; rhinestones: michaels (re-colored w/copics); other: mylar stars in several sizes, plus tiny star-shaped nail art gems, glitter glue; adhesives: tombow monorunner, 3m foam tape, glue dots, uhu gluestick)

this is for my friend's son who's turning three next month. he's one of the few people i know who loves robots and monstas as much as i do, so i am hoping he will enjoy space aliens, too! i started out using this week's sketch from friday sketchers:



but as you can see, my card mutated quite considerably from the plan... (space aliens will do that every time!!!) ...so i don't think i can really send this in afterall. it's a GREAT sketch, though, maybe i will have another go.

i was pretty much enitrely on track until i decided--midway through the process--that this should be a shaker card. then it became necessary to lose both the large square frame, and the small rectangular inset, in order to have more visible "window" to see the stars and small rocket ships inside.



at that point i also set aside the scalloppy cardstock circle i'd traced from this piece of fancy pants chipboard, and decorated the piece itself to serve as a more solid frame. i colored it with a blue sharpie, embossed with cuttlebug's swirly e/f (i had to run it through twice due to size, but it came out pretty well!) and then embellished it with a silver metallic sharpie. i backed it with an inkjet transparency, added the shaky bits, and attached it using many mannnnnnnny small curved bits of foam tape to seal the entire circle. then i added all the adorable stickers. (most of which are backed with dark blue cardstock and cut out, to make them both sturdier and more dimensional) a few rhinestones and touches of glitter glue later, i was done.

happy birthday, little dude!

19 comments:

  1. He will love it... if not, please send it to meeeeeeeeee! Jo x

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  2. WOW. This is so incredibly out of this world. I loved it before I found out it's a shaker card too!!! Now I LOVE it. He is on lucky little dude.

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  3. Hi Lauren

    I just love it hun. Great little boys card.

    Hugs Ali x

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  4. The little dude is gonna LOVE it! Awesome card! Shake away aliens!

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  5. OMG, you crack me up! WHO KNEW that the shopping part was a complete separate hobby??!??!?!?!? That explains SO MUCH!!!

    And dontcha just love how an original idea morphs into something completely different?!?!? I know *I* do!

    Keep that mojo comin' !!!!

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  6. OMG, you crack me up! WHO KNEW that the shopping part was a complete separate hobby??!??!?!?!? That explains SO MUCH!!!

    And dontcha just love how an original idea morphs into something completely different?!?!? I know *I* do!

    Keep that mojo comin' !!!!

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  7. Sorry about the comment hiccup. Now you have THREE comments form me. Sigh ...

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  8. Woo-hoo! Lauren, this card is so cool! Your little friend will adore it and probably sleep with it under his pillow... well, that's what my kids would do... It's the bomb-diggity and I LOVE how you used almost all of those stickers! Wonderful!

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  9. That card is amazing, and I have to say that we share the exact same hobbies!!! :)

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  10. Those Sandylion stickers are stinkin' adorable and so is your card...sooooo very perfect-o!!!

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  11. wow! what an amazing and super fun card!!!!! the boy will LOVE this!! so much work has been put into making this! superb card! love love love it!!

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  12. Okay I bow down to the lady of cute freaking awesome boy cards!! Whoda thunk you could do boy and blue so well when usually Laureniffic stuff is pink and girly greatness??? I love this! I want to take it and give it to Logan for his next bday! I might have to get some of those stickers now too! LOVE IT!~! :)

    Ps. I'm back!! Had a great time. Be updating on my blog soon!

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  13. This is a fun card, I love it. Using an entire bunch of stickers? Good for you, who wants a little bit of alien goodness when you can have a BUNCH?

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  14. how fargin' CUTE!?! girlfriend, you just never stop, do you? do you ever make anything PLAIN?! ha ha ha ha ha!

    and THANK YOU, girliefriendie, for the most awesome, thoughtful giftie thing you sent! it was such a nice surprise, and i love the quote! the way you held it shut gave me the inspiration for The Son's project, which i totally ended up engineering. thanks for that! :D

    you are a sly rockah! xo

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  15. This is just plain awesome Lauren! And being an expert on 3 yr old boys (I'm on #3) I can confidently say that he will absolutely freak out for this!

    (-: Heidi

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  17. Lauren you've done it again.. You're guilty... Guilty in creating a perfect card for a SPACE/MONSTAR/stickers loving person. He is gonna LOVE it.
    Hugs

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