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My Materials |
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Ever since I started making cards, I've been trying to create a style that is all of my own. First off, I don't like anything two dimentional on my cards. I always want things to pop out or have some sort of texture to it instead of a flat surface. Something that you'd be able to touch, not just a picture on a piece of paper. So no matter what kind of card I'm making, I will always include wire on it, whether it be thin, thick, green, silver, etc. Down below are some tools as well as other kinds of materials that I use. |
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When working with any kind of wire, you'd need one of these handy. These are the pliers that I usually use to cut, bend and shape the wire I use. They're very useful when it comes to working with thick wire (2 mm). Those aren't as soft as say the .6 mm kind, so that's where these pliers help out a lot. |
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This is the 2 mm wire that I had mentioned before. This and other kinds of wire are among my favorites to use. |
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This is a look at what I normally use on my cards. I used to use the colored pencils a lot, but afterward switched to watercolor pencils. The main reason was because the watercolor pencils can look like both pastels and watercolor. If you don't add water, then the colors really stick out. Watercolors are wonderful when it comes to painting, because of the soft tone it gives to the pictures. |
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These are the tools that are used to either put the card together or to put on some finishing touches. Since I'm usually dealing with paper, I use a glue stick instead of normal liquid glue. This is mainly because when the liquid glue dries, it makes the paper all lumpy. The bad thing about using a glue stick is that it isn't as adhesive as liquid glue. In the back, there's my pencil case full of colored pens and markers. For colored pens, I like to use Gelly Rolls because of their variety in color and how well they write. To the right, there is a metal ruler as well as a curved ruler (it's flexible, so you can bend it and make beautiful curves) and tweezers to help get those tiny cut-outs glued down in the right spot. I forgotten to put my exacto knife there next to the scissors. Using a exacto knife and a metal ruler lets you cut unwavering straight lines. |
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