Making of my New Year's cards
Now that everyone on my snailmail list received their cards, I thought it was time for a look behind the scenes of those holiday wishes! I made two main designs for my New Year's cards: a fandom version and a neutral happy 2015 version, both papercuts out of sparkly paper that I had printed one sided with colour (blue, green, purple and a stripey set up with all three colours) and cut to A5 size (148x210mm). Here's what I did with these pieces of paper...
Doodle sketches and on the right the template I made on the computer. I used a combination of convention photos to get Jensen and Jared's silhouette shapes. The font I used for 2015 is the Cambria Bold, which I stretched vertically.
I traced the template onto the cards. This is a first test (as you can tell by the oopsie-cut in the five, I started out before I figured out to mirror the numbers...) I cut the faces with scissors, the numbers with an exacto knife. In my hand I'm holding the bonefolder.
The basic idea is that as a 'landscape' the 2015 is covered with piles of snow; while as a 'portrait', the profiles of Jensen and Jared are revealed (or Dean and Sam if you prefer:)
For a more festive look, I added firework-sparks. When all the cards were cut, I had a lot of left over numbers. I used those for a third (and fourth) design.
But let me first show you main design number 2:
Using the same template for the numbers, this time I cut an outline. In the photo on the right you can see the effect of the printed colours on the back of the card.
After cutting I folded the card in half, then I pushed the mirrored numbers through the slit I had cut on the opposite side.
On the other side the coloured letters turned out readable again and offer a contrast with the white background: tadaah! (I also used this folding trick in in the banner I made for the J2_SPN_BigBang2014:)
Then I opened the hidden hatch to write my new year's wishes. On the J2 card I wrote it horizontally (to emphasize the snow-version for fangirls who were not out to friends and family;)
Remember the numbers I had left over from the first design? Here's what I did with those:
I glued them in two different set ups and made landscape/horizontally folded cards and portrait/vertically folded cards.
Forgot to mention that the colours I chose for the cards are the same three colours that feature in my apartment. They all come together in the lines on the wall in my livingroom: green from the kitchen, blue from the bathroom and purple from my bedroom. (This was actually accidental, I swear I thought I had randomly chosen a combination of colours for the cards!)
Of course I also cut sparkle-stars in these cards as a finishing touch.
Hope you got the card you liked best:)
J.
P.S. Maybe you missed it due to other art-projects: I posted another nsfw drawing last weekend! If you did see it, but were scared away by the kink, I want to reassure you that it's a very mild version of watersports; a dressed Jared is merely watching a dressed Jensen take a leak. Since I tried a different technique again, I'd love to know what fellow artists think of it, it's also animated!
Doodle sketches and on the right the template I made on the computer. I used a combination of convention photos to get Jensen and Jared's silhouette shapes. The font I used for 2015 is the Cambria Bold, which I stretched vertically.
I traced the template onto the cards. This is a first test (as you can tell by the oopsie-cut in the five, I started out before I figured out to mirror the numbers...) I cut the faces with scissors, the numbers with an exacto knife. In my hand I'm holding the bonefolder.
The basic idea is that as a 'landscape' the 2015 is covered with piles of snow; while as a 'portrait', the profiles of Jensen and Jared are revealed (or Dean and Sam if you prefer:)
For a more festive look, I added firework-sparks. When all the cards were cut, I had a lot of left over numbers. I used those for a third (and fourth) design.
But let me first show you main design number 2:
Using the same template for the numbers, this time I cut an outline. In the photo on the right you can see the effect of the printed colours on the back of the card.
After cutting I folded the card in half, then I pushed the mirrored numbers through the slit I had cut on the opposite side.
On the other side the coloured letters turned out readable again and offer a contrast with the white background: tadaah! (I also used this folding trick in in the banner I made for the J2_SPN_BigBang2014:)
Then I opened the hidden hatch to write my new year's wishes. On the J2 card I wrote it horizontally (to emphasize the snow-version for fangirls who were not out to friends and family;)
Remember the numbers I had left over from the first design? Here's what I did with those:
I glued them in two different set ups and made landscape/horizontally folded cards and portrait/vertically folded cards.
Forgot to mention that the colours I chose for the cards are the same three colours that feature in my apartment. They all come together in the lines on the wall in my livingroom: green from the kitchen, blue from the bathroom and purple from my bedroom. (This was actually accidental, I swear I thought I had randomly chosen a combination of colours for the cards!)
Of course I also cut sparkle-stars in these cards as a finishing touch.
Hope you got the card you liked best:)
J.
P.S. Maybe you missed it due to other art-projects: I posted another nsfw drawing last weekend! If you did see it, but were scared away by the kink, I want to reassure you that it's a very mild version of watersports; a dressed Jared is merely watching a dressed Jensen take a leak. Since I tried a different technique again, I'd love to know what fellow artists think of it, it's also animated!