Cards by Gilly Diary

My recent trip away..

Gilly — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:12:36 +0000

I have recently got back from visiting Ireland. I stayed in Dublin. While I was there I took loads of photos. For the past couple of days I have been putting some of them together producing photomontages. Here are some that I have finished:

New Christmas cards coming soon

Gilly — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:31:38 +0000

At the moment the Christmas section is “under construction”. I will be adding new cards to this section over the next couple of weeks.

The card below is one of the new cards I have designed for this year.

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Some NEW Birthday cards!

Gilly — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:09:31 +0000

Head over to the Birthday section to check out the latest Birthday cards I have just added.

The image of the daisies was taken from my garden. I thought the image came out well, so I put it on a couple of Birthday cards.

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New Unique Birthday Card

Gilly — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:50:26 +0000

Hey… Check out this new unique card just added.

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Check out some NEW Birthday cards just added..

Gilly — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:30:57 +0000

Over the past couple of days I’ve added some new Birthday cards.

I wanted to point out that the new card below can have ANY age on the front. I chose 28 as an example. I really like this card.

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Here is how blue flower image worked out…..

Gilly — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:14:39 +0000

Compared to the blue flower image on the previous post, the finished image has come out darker than what it was on the screen. I’m really pleased with how it turned out.

Here is how my flower image worked out…..

Gilly — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:19:56 +0000

As you can see I’ve layered certain parts of the image 2 or 3 times. This is usually refered to as decoupage. I’m really pleased with how the image looks, althought I thought it looked a little dark. These flowers are purple.

Here is the original.

Now I’m working on different colours. This is the blue. The blue flowers will look different once the image is printed as my printer usually prints things darker than what they look like on the screen.

What I’m working on at the moment

Gilly — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:25:58 +0000

I had an idea from a card I’ve put in the Unique section.
I want to do a decoupage card using this image, instead of colouring it in by hand I scanned it in to my computer. This makes editing and colouring really easy to do (although it’s quite time consuming!!).
Here is how I coloured it…

To begin with I made the image transparent. The grey area represents this.

Next, I put colour behind the leaves.

Then I put colour behind the flowers.

To finish off the colouring I layered different colours with different transparencies on top of the colours I began with. This is the finished image.

Now I am going to try and bring the image to life..

Some more new cards added!

Gilly — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:48:52 +0000

Today I have been adding some more new cards. There are three new cards in the Happy Birthday section.

Also check out the Unique cards… At the moment I am adding to the Unique cards, so keep checking back as more cards will appear soon.

New Birthday Cards

Gilly — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:26:39 +0000

Check out the NEW Birthday cards!!

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