Fathers’ Day Card, One Year On

Over a year ago in May, I received a custom order request for a Fathers’ Day card from a mum-to-be. My customer was pregnant with her first child, and wanted to make it a special first Fathers’ Day for her husband.

She had wanted an elephant-themed card, and pretty much gave me free rein with it, and here’s what I made:

You can read more about the card here.

This year, to my delight, she wrote back with an order for another Fathers’ Day card–and with updates about how her little family was doing since we were last in contact. Again, her only specification was an elephant theme.

I decided that it’d be cute to do something similar like the last one for some continuity, and came up with this:

Basically the same idea of a single elephant, the word “daddy”, and a heart. Went with a square-cut sheet of 250gsm white textured cardstock.

Because the size of the card was a little larger than usual, I made an envelope from scatch to fit the card’s dimensions snugly. Instead of putting her husband’s name/initial on the front, I thought it’d be nice to let her address it in writing instead. So I went with a floaty banner image, for her to write his name.

I went with a die-cut elephant this time, complete with googly eyes! I also had the word “daddy” going down the arch of the elephant’s back. The look for this year’s card was a lot more subdued because of the very neutral colours of cream/brown, but I decided to add a pop of colour with the lightly-striped heart blowing out of his trunk (again, harking back to the original card of 2010).

Here’s a close-up of the elephant, which shows his googly eyes really well! The close-up also shows the inking on the edges that I did with each layer of the elephant, which helps the otherwise light-coloured cream paper to contrast with the white cardstock.

I also curled his ears a little so that they flap upwards from the paper, for some dimensions. I decided not to make him a pop-up elephant, so I wanted to find another way to make sure that there was some visual/tactile interest to the card.

If you look closely, you’ll also see that he has toenails… :]

Again, here’s a photo of the card that I made last year. Same same but different, no?