This card nearly sent me insane yesterday. Oh so many things went wrong along the way and what seemed like a good idea was a nightmare to actually create. All I wanted to do was create a turning circle with Santa flying through the sky outside a window - it all proved a bit too much for my over worked brain!
Although in my defence I must say that the circle does turn, by pushing the part on the outside on the window on the right hand side and Santa does fly through the sky twice alongside a message saying 'Santa Claus is coming to town.'
Here's a list of things that either proved incredibly fiddly or difficult or both...
- Had to print the sky background three times - once for bottom half of window, once for top and once for turning circle so why did my printer decide to do the circle a different colour to the rest which meant I had to start again?
- Clear rubber Santa stamp would not stamp well on the card I had printed on.
- Had to reprint the circle with a Santa sleigh image but couldn't find a really good digi.
- It took 9 attempts to get the both the sentiment and the sleighs the right way up and travelling correctly - by that time I was knee deep in paper and ready to cry.
Things that did make me happy...
- planning the design in Serif Craft Artist and then printing out the parts needed worked well
- the curtain pole - a kebab stick cut down with beads on the end. I knew that awful necklace bought at Primark would be useful one day.
So by now you've probably guessed that our theme this week at Bah! Humbug! is kinetic cards - cards that have moving parts or rock or even explode into action. Wowza, I bet we're going to be blown away by everyone's designs. I'm 100% sure that everyone will do a better job than me as I really don't like my card. I learnt a great deal while making it though and it's definitely one of those 'can do better next time' cards that we all need to do from time to time.
Hugs and Smiles
Ann xxx
