Tree Card

I had a few friends that I wanted to make cards for today so I indulged my creative side and made these following cards!

I started with some plain white card stock paper for the card base. After that I cut out a tree shape from some brown card stock paper. (Tip: Go to the paint section at Wal-Mart and they have free colored paper cards you can take that are great for card making.)  

I used two of these colored papers from Wal-Mart and a hole punch to create small paper circles for the tree leaves. 

Here's the finished card. This is just a basic design and instead of leaves you could make flowers or whatever. Next time I think I will use colored paper for the background instead of plain white. 

Here's some of the cards I made. 

Church in the Woods

Here's a little sketch I did. I used a reference photo for the church and the trees were from my imagination. I drew this to practice perspective (It's still a little bit off, but that's a work in progress!) I drew this using a regular black ball-point pen. Hope you like it! :)

Urban Sketch

                                      Here's a quick urban sketch I did of an apartment building.

Blown Away

This drawing I call Blown Away. 

Watchful Cat

                                          Here's another picture I drew today.  A Watchful Cat.

Bird on a Branch

                   

                           Here's a little bird I drew today. It's the first drawing in my new art journal.

Card Making

I'd like to add some new things to this blog that I've been making. Cards! I like to create cards to send to people. There's just something about matching colors together and adding small details to make the card meaningful. I'd eventually like to get good enough that perhaps people would be interested in

buying them. However, for now I am simply practicing and making these cards for people around me. I like to think of it as sending small blessings to people. I know that a handmade card certainly seems more genuine than a cheap, cheesy card from a dollar store.