Title: Happy Birthday Mum – 2010
Medium: coloured markers, felt, sequins, wire, liquid paper
Size: slightly smaller than A4
Date: 18 July 2010
Firstly, cut 4 pieces of felt to make the wings of the butterfly. If you have scrap pieces of cloth, you can use them. Place the pieces on the area you want to put the butterfly. Use the sequins as decorative materials for the butterfly. You can make two layers for the butterfly’s wings (the sky blue and baby pink portions) to make the butterfly more 3-dimensional. Bend one end of the wire into a spiral shape and do the same for the other piece of wire. Place super glue on the other end and stick it underneath the felt.
Secondly, place some flowers at the side. The yellow and orange flowers I used were actually pre-cut. I got them at Daiso for $2 (of course there were quite a lot of pieces inside the pack). I used liquid paper to draw lines from the centre of the flowers so the inner portion appears lighter to enhance it’s 3-D effect. I then place a silver sequin at the top to cover the white lines, making them appear less messy. Cut a few pieces of leaves if you want.
Write in the necessary text! 
I used red for the text with black for it’s shadows and white (liquid paper) for the highlights.
The birthday cake actually pops out. Maybe I’ll blog about this technique another day. Basically, I just drew random heart patterns at the bottom and I didn’t fold the card 1:1 so that you can see the patterns even when you close the card. Main colours of the card – pink, blue, purple.
