February 8, 2010

• Card making failure -_-'

  So I've been making cards these past few days as you all know.  Well, my friend's birthday is coming up, and he's having a little get together on his birthday, which happens to be the day before Valentine's day.  So I was thinking about it and decided to make him a card incorporating both Valentine's and his birthday.  First I thought, it'd be cool to have a sign on one side say one thing, and a sign on the other side saying the other thing.  But I couldn't think of context for a sign just being in the middle of a card...

  Finally, I got this silly silly idea, because that's how I roll.  I decided to dress up the way I would for his get together, and pose holding a sign.  (That way it'd look silly with me standing there with the card looking like myself on the card?  And then I thought it'd be hilarious to get a picture of us with the card with the picture of us...lol).  Then, I just take that picture and flip it horizontally, and print it again, with a different sign on the other side, that way the symmetry and everything works.  I also dug through his facebook pictures to find one that would be easy to extract him from, and on in which he looked happy.  Cropped and copy/flipped it, print...Well, since I printed it on regular paper, I decided to put a piece of cardstocky material in between the two mirror images.  I also found some plastic from a bag and made it so the card was sealed...It was epic!  And then I was waiting for it to dry before adding decoration like a cake and hearts for V-Day, but I had a meeting to go to at 10, so I left, and met one of his friends/my neighbor on the way back.  I excitedly showed him the card I made, and he sounded a little hesitant when saying it look nice, or maybe I was just beeing sensitive/lame.

  Well, after he left, I looked at the card and discovered that for some reason my friend's face had turned green!!!  What?!?!?!  It was green on both sides, but that's not how it was earlier...For some reason I was left unaltered; I think the glue caused the color to run...not really sure what else could explain it...but now I don't want to give him a card that has him martian colored and me looking normal? 
  
  I'm making a new one, that will be without photographs, lol, to prevent skin color changing things from occurring...it'll probably be in the same fashion as all the other cards I made, just paper cut up, maybe embossing.  :[  Oh well, I'll prob give him the card and the new card (once I finish it).  But for now I'm tired of card making because I've been like a little factory.  However, I haven't made any cards for my local friends, or a few of the Floridian friends.  

  Sigh.  Maybe tomorrow night, or something.  : or maybe later tonight...the night is still young.

  So so tired right now...a friend was over late last night; and I don't know how she does it...she's like an energizer bunny that doesn't need sleep.  I felt really dead most of today even with the sleep I got.  O_o...& I don't concentrate well with others around (she was supposed to be studying, but she wasn't?)...Sigh.  Might have to stay up later studying tonight...(so why am I on here/making cards?).  Meh.

  I called my gramps yesterday around 2AM.  They were surprise that I was awake (they're in LA so it wasn't too late there...and they stay up really late, like maybe later than my parents, lol).

  Mailed out NY/DC area cards (2 and 2).

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