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I make! Ridiculous wedding card edition

So, here’s something from the ridiculous week of getting ALL THE PROJECTS done.  Well, actually I think I completed this before that week.  It was my foray into the ALL THE PROJECTS territory.  And it’s safe to show now because they told me they received the hoofs already.

This card was for Guybrush and Sheri.  I mentioned their wedding here and here.  I made the card with a gradient of purple because…I never get to use purple paper.  Most of the stuff was cut with the Cricut (Create a Critter, some random mustaches I picked up, whatever sans serif font cartridge that is, and Robotz).

Here’s a better shot of the bird with a mustache about as long as the bird itself.  How does one fly with a mustache as big as oneself?  Things to ponder.

So, I decided that since Guybrush and Sheri are polar opposites (in that she is the most ridiculous person EVAR and he is the most normal person EVAR), the card needed to have two sides to suit their personalities.  The problem is, I’m probably about as ridiculous as Sheri so I have a very poor grasp of what normal is.  I think I can fake being normal better than she can though.  HA!

Anyway, the mustachioed cows are obviously for Sheri.  Because she likes cows.  And also mustaches.  Also, they requested that I live tweet their wedding, which I complied, so I thought I’d give her a fake mustached twitter bird too.  Oh, and that ridiculous tape she gifted to me that one time.  It’s perfect for a wedding card.  Even though it vaguely mentions birthdays on it.  In poor grammar.  And spelling.  Because it was from an Asian stationery store.  Which are the best.  BEST.

So, Guybrush’s side was a bit more problematic because like I said, I have a hard time knowing what normal really is.  I finally decided that in this case, it meant sensible.  So I tried to make sensible choices for his card.  I also arbitrarily decided on some of his interests.  Like sprinkles (just because) and robots (because he’s an engineer) and cleaning (because he married Sheri) and grilling (because what guy doesn’t like to eat food cooked in a fire?).  Also, because this was a wedding card, I stuck a wedding related sticker on it.  That’s important.  Oh, and I used black duct tape at the seams because duct tape is much more sensible than ridiculous, Asian stationery store, birthday, not even washi tape.

And here’s the envelope.  I rather like the paper.  I had a lot of trouble cutting things to size since I was doing this in the midst of unemployment and apparently forgot everything I ever learned about math.  I was pretty annoyed with myself.  Srsly, I worked as an engineer all this time??

Anyway, tada!  The most ridiculous wedding card you ever did see!

I make! Baby shower card edition

My friend had a baby shower recently.  I was invited to go.  I had never been to a baby shower before.  I knew presents are involved and that it’s generally related to babies.  Other than that, I was kind of at a loss.  But, no matter!  Even with such sketchy knowledge, I made her a card anyway!

Um...I forgot to take a picture of it. And no, that's not what I wrote on the clouds.

So, it kind of looked like that.  I didn’t do a concept sketch beforehand so I doodled out what it ended up looking like after I gave it to her (and realized I didn’t take a picture of it).  I used mainly the Create a Critter cartridge from my Cricut to make the card.  I ended up welding some clouds together to make bigger ones and I found a flat bottomed cloud in Craft Room (I think).  Too bad you can’t see the actual card.  I was rather amused by it.  I made it from a bluish 6″x12″ piece of cardstock folded in offset thirds.  The front flap was trimmed so that there was more cloudy rufflies on the leftmost edge.

Anyway, true to form, I had a theme.  I decided my friend’s baby will need stimulation.  So I bought him basically all the toys on the registry.  Toys are important.  Now then, it’s a baby shower, so I think there is…rain?  Maybe a lot?  Enough to make a puddle?  And there are a bunch of toys for him.  So maybe it’s raining toys?  The giraffe is there because I like them.  And it fit better than the elephant, which also was kind of a theme for the shower.  And monkeys.  But I didn’t make any monkeys.  Anyway, there were a lot of booties, baby singlets, rubber duckies, and t-rexes raining down.  Because…these are obviously things that would rain down during a baby shower.  So obvious.