Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Where's The Fire?

Another commissioned card for you today, this time for a young lad who has spent much of his short life in hospital. I was told that he loves firemen and doctors, so I was keen to try out some punch art - always a hit with youngsters.

I found a great punch art fireman on Tina Gillespie's blog that she had cased from Ellen Kemper (click HERE for her list of punches used) so copied that. I didn't have the butterfly punch for the moustache, so used a heart shape instead, I used the owl punch for the eyes and substituted ribbon for the hose rather than card. To relieve the bland white background I added some clip art and printed it in greyscale, reducing the opacity to make it like a watermark. The fire engine image was printed again on the inside page.


Materials used:
  • card - Pacific point, daffodil delight, whisper white, basic grey, real red, chocolate chip, blush blossom
  • punches - see the link above
  • other - computer and printer, clip art, dimensionals, real red grosgrain ribbon

It was great fun to make and I hope will be a big hit with wee Nathaniel.

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers
Kez

2 comments:

Margaret said...

This is so cute and I am sure he will love it! Fabulous work!

Kathryn Brennan said...

Fabulous! What a great boy's card.