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While I consider myself a game FIEND - any kind of game or puzzle - analog or digital - one thing I have yet to succumb to is Minecraft. My current obsession is June's Journey. I feel like it's a good game for improving memory too.
But I have so many friends whose kids just LOVE Minecraft, and what strikes me about this game, like Pokemon Go! is that it translates so, so well to crafting - I've seen the cutest craft projects with both games.
Today, I'm teaming up with my sweet friend Michelle Lupton on her CASE Me a Christmas Card series - she always does such fun stuff in her Christmas series. So she is CASEing a card of mine and making it a Christmas card and I'm doing the same.
So as I perused her Instagram account, an ADORABLE Minecraft inspired card she made for her Nephew in 2019 and I knew what I was going to do!
So click over and check out the inspiration first, and then I'll show you what I did.
- First I took a 4x5.25" card panel - I use these on all my cards because I have them pre-cut for me.
- I used a pencil and the awesome new MIS-T Ruler to divide the entire card front into a 1/2" grid. It's important to cover the whole area with a grid, because that helps you plan your shape and see exactly how big it can be. This is how I figured out that with the square "star" I could make the design span the whole card.
- Some squares you will have to divide in half so that you can offset the rows of squares if you're making a tree - so you can see that row 2 is offset from row 1, etc.
- Erase all extraneous lines around your design
- I used all the greens in my Graphit Markers and three browns - first, outlining each square with the fineliner end, and then filling that in with the brush end.
- I had a scrap I had wiped off excess acrylic ink on on my desk, so I cut that to a 1/2" square and glued that on top for an abstract star. I stamped the sentiment from this set on top.
It's a naturally imperfect process - coloring squares - and I think that is part of the charm of this technique.
Here's my prep work for the tree. You can see what I mean about subdividing the squares.
I ADORE this particular pencil - I've kicked all my other ones into travel bags. The lead is both fine and hard, so you can draw light, easy to erase lines.
Want to see what card Michelle chose to CASE of mine? I haven't seen it either, so let's head over to her post together!
Loveyameanitbye.
I was doing June's Journey a few years back but I got tired of the decorate the estate side of it.
ReplyDeleteI do not know anything about Minecraft-I have heard of it but that's it. Looks like it is something to do with colored squares. I thought it had to do with too-life like warriors killing creatures....I find the new tech is way too life like and brutal as a "game". I watch every jerky "shark" movie out there with all the fake blood (5 headed, walks on land, head attached to an octopus body, etc) but that is so clearly fake. I miss the old Japanese monster movies with the rubber suits.
This is a nice adaptation of the first card.