As usual, the end of November meant some paper crafting time. This year for the cards, I settled on wanting to use (a) button(s) and have a terrible animal pun. The original plan centered on (s)nail it, but I couldn’t really get it to work. So I trawled pinterest and google for cards and found the use of ‘whaley’ as ‘really’ and thought that was a pretty decent idea. It’s also possible to make a little round whale that I could stick a button on.
For the actual design, I picked a new font: Edo SZ and wrote the text in a word file. Since I didn’t necessarily want to have a copyright problem, I built the whale fin shape and its firework fountain from word icons. Is that the designer way? It very much is not! But I did really enjoy playing with the stock images and manipulating them until it did what I wanted. The origin is fireworks, leaves, a moon shape and a circle.
To put them together, the files were printed on some paper I found in my stash. The buttons were attached using a short length of self-dyed thread. All the buttons also came from the stash. I didn’t have to buy anything new for this card. In the end, I also made a separate version for my roller derby team and wished everyone: ‘let’s have a whale of a time together in 2025!’. These were on some linen stock that was also from my stash.
So for now, happy holidays and may you all have a whale of a time in 2025!
