no-cost handmade birthday card tutorial

ok maybe this is cheating. i say no-cost but its really just no cost to me because i got lucky. i work at a craft store where they do custom picture framing. a customer had a work framed and they trimmed off the extra paper and gave it to me. so i got high quality water color paper for free. try this with other papers; it could work!

well the first step is to cut your hard to size. again, i eyeballed this project. then tape it down to your work surface. my dear friend kristin is turning 18, so i lightly drew a big 18 on the front. but you can do any picture or design or word or name of number you want. the idea here is just to diy rather than to buy from the store.

i made sure to get every part of the paper wet except for the 18.

i just plopped color blobs on like tie-dye. i wanted it to look springy.

 then i went back with micron pens and added details.

and i have terrible handwriting, so i printed out a little saying for the inside in a cute font and traced it with tracing paper, then went over it with micron pen.

turned out pretty cute, right? :D

father's day 2010

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so today was father's day. my good friend, amber, had invited me to a buddhist temple to visit today, but i declined. i wanted to me with my dad on father's day.

i got him an 8GB flash drive, with a little case to store it in so it doesnt get lost.

 and i made him this little card.

haning out with my family waaas.. um.. ok ill just say it- TERRIBLE. as much as i love my dad, and want to respect him on his special day, i really wished i would have said, "sorry dad, im going to the temple. bye!"

anyway, they're not all bad. my niece is pretty adorable.

 

she has the biggest collection of silly bands id ever seen. 

which my aunt criticized, and then made racist comments about chinese people. someday, someday, ill move far away from my family. maybe ill take my niece with me.