A thoughtful birthday card combining a mother and daughters favourite flowers to make a lovely line drawing and watercolour effect.
Drawn in Procreate on the iPad finished in Affinity Designer on the Mac, printed out on an A4 Matt card 210gsm card, printed as A4 folds to an A5 to finish.
1st Proper Halloween at the new house so I wanted to make up treat bags for the kids in the street.
Pumpkin was drawn in Affinity designer on the ipad then cut out in orange vinylon the circuit cutter.
Something lovely and bright for my mother in laws Birthday.
Drawn in Procreate (8hrs) on the iPad finished in Affinity Designer on the Mac, printed out on an A3Matt card 210gsm card, details / Vinyl cut on circuit, Vinyl on card as A3 folds to 190 x 190cm to finish.
I’ve been working with the local radio club to raise their awareness of their club, they recently moved to a new cabin and host lots of fun activities throughout the year. Below are some of the items I’ve been working on.
Business cards to give out at events:
(1 and 2) Ideas of Banner for the front of the Cabin and fence to make it easier to find the club. (3, 5 and 8) A lightbox for the side of the cabin. (4, 6 and 7) Three poster for the inside of the cabin; 1 – the logo, 2 – 50yrs history & 3 – illustrations of their radios.
Reusing my kawaii sweet treats for another we girls card. This time I went for shinny vinyl background, I think it helps the design pop more.
Drawn in Procreate on the iPad finished in Affinity Designer on the Mac, printed out on an A4 Matt card 210gsm card, details / Vinyl cut on circuit, Vinyl on card as A4 folds to an A5 to finish.
Trying to use more shinny vinyl on cards to make them special, again my delightful daisy’s being used to create a lovley card for a baby girl.
Drawn in Procreate on the iPad finished in Affinity Designer on the Mac, printed out on an A4 Matt card 210gsm card, details / Vinyl cut on circuit, card printed as A4 folds to an A5 to finish.
Using my beloved daisy to create a nice card to celebrate a big day.
Drawn in Procreate on the iPad finished in Affinity Designer on the Mac, printed out on an A4 Matt card 210gsm card, silver vinyl cut on circuit, printed card folds to an A5 to finish.
I wanted super cute illustrations for Adeline’s card and whats better than Kawaii sweet treats.
Drawn in Procreate on the iPad finished in Affinity Designer on the Mac, printed out on an A4 Matt card 210gsm card, details / Vinyl cut on circuit, purple printed card folds to an A5 to finish.
Drawn in Procreate on the iPad finished in Affinity Designer on the Mac, printed out on koala A4 Matt card 210gsm folds to an A5 to finish.
Peony’s and daisy’s originally used for Kirsten and Matt’s card but so beautiful.
Drawn in Procreate on the iPad finished in Affinity Designer on the Mac, printed out on koala A3 Matt card 230gsm folds to 190 x 190mm to finish.
Re using my beautiful sweat peas to create a light fun 30th Birthday card.
Drawn in Affinity Designer on the Mac, printed out on koala A4 Matt card 210gsm folds to an A5 to finish.
A beautiful commission for an adorable little dog. I absolutely loved drawing this dog my favorite part is a super cute necklace.
Drawn in Procreate on the iPad finished in Affinity Designer on the Mac, printed out on koala A4 Matt card 210gsm folds to an A5 to finish.
I wanted to create a nice package for a USB which has images from my wedding. The design is taken from the illustrations done from the wedding but scaled down. the purple design is a water colour on paper which was scanned in.
Drawn in Procreate on the iPad and water colour (scanned in) and finished in Affinity Designer on the Mac, printed out on koala A4 Matt card 210gsm folds to an A5 to finish.
Playing with markers and the studio pen to create this floral image perfect for Mother’s day cards.
Drawn in Procreate on the iPad finished in Affinity Designer on the Mac, printed out on koala A4 Matt card 210gsm folds to an A5 to finish.
Using existing flowers created for a wedding card but applied to a special age card.
Drawn in Affinity designer on the iPad finished on the Mac, insert pocket glued in, printed out on koala A4 Matt card 210gsm folds to an A5 to finish.
Card for a climber, I thought it would be a fun idea of having climbing figures climbing the text.
Created in Affinity Designer on the Mac, printed out on koala A4 Matt card 210gsm folds to an A5 to finish.
I wanted to created a flower picture that looked like it was coloured in with Flt tips and I think it came out well.
Drawn in Procreate on the iPad finished in Affinity Designer on the Mac, to overlay different names, printed out on koala A4 Matt card 210gsm folds to an A5 to finish.
My yearly Christmas cards! Unfortunately, my poor Epson printer broke and had to be sent away (a replacement took a few weeks to come) which meant I did not have a printer to make the Christmas cards. I decided to think of something that would utilise my circuit cutter (craft/cutting machine). I decided on a design and drew it up in Affinity Designer. The white 210g matt card is cut, backed with green metallic card. I then cut red vinyl circles which were placed on top of the card to create the holly effect.
The content below showcases a beautiful and cohesive setup for our wedding reception, with a nice combination of purple and grey colours. The use of the same flowers and illustrations as on the wedding invite helps tie everything together. We chose the colours because I love purple and Iain loves grey and both colours work well together. The addition of the custom-made Lego cake topper adds a personal and fun touch to the celebration. (I used set 40165 and series 7 mini figure bag pipper). I have used a combination of foamex, matt 210g paper and vinyl to create the below items:
To welcome a new little one into the world, I used a photo of her feet to personalize this card, it’s drawn in Procreate, and then silver vinyl is added to as a sparkle. I really like how this came out, very similar to the idea I had sketched out.
Drawn in Procreate on the iPad finished in Affinity Designer on the Mac, sparkly silver vinyl added, printed out on koala A4 Matt card 210gsm folds to an A5 to finish.
In September 2023 (23.09.23) Iain finally proposed (after a year of pestering) I didn’t want to wait any longer and had lots of ideas. I picked the flowers for my bouquet for the wedding and then drew them out as I wanted everything to tie in. The flowers were drawn as separate elements that I could then move about depending on what they were going on (to brand each stationery item). I was thinking of the bigger picture; invites, A1 welcome board, card box, cards for food, A5 table schedules, A4 welcome boards and A1 displays for the windows.
The flowers are drawn in Affinity Designer on the iPad with partial work on the Mac for the finishing touches. This allowed me to use the Apple pencil to draw (much like Procreate). The advantage of using Designer over Procreate is that it is vectorized (not pixels). The vectors would then be scaled to any size which allowed them to be applied to all colateral.
For a girl who likes green and is turning 30 what better way to celebrate than a blingy number card, drawn in Procreate then set up to cut in design space and an extra 5mm bleed to create the gold cut shape and all stuck together with 5mm foam.
Drawn in Procreate on the iPad finished in Affinity Designer /design space on the Mac, Sparkley gold vinyl stuck to card and stuck with sticky fixers, printed out on an A3 Gloss card 260gsm Koala matt folds to a square around 24cm to finish.
Totally obsessed with my new Cricut cutter! The first thing I did was order t-shirts (to put stuff on), inkjet transfer paper, and glitter vinyl. The Koala Dark transfer paper came out awesome it works with inkjet/pigment ink so my Epson is perfect. I can’t believe how strong the color and image came out especially as the baby goat is white. The glitter heat vinyl was also very cool but a wee bit harder to work with, I love the end result. The boxes are from Epson Creative Print which allows you to pick a print to go with the template.
For my other uncle, I decided to go for an oriental bird as he spends half his year in Asia so I wanted to tie in with that. I saw an image of a beautiful purple Japanese bird and thought a pen drawing would work well for the front of this card as I wanted it to be bold and bright. It is framed in red and backed in a off-mint colour to tie everything together.
Drawn in Procreate on the iPad finished in Affinity Designer on the Mac, bold print, printed out on an A4 Matt card 210gsm folds to an A5 to finish.
A tribute to a little one who was gone too soon. Designed with her mum to make sure we captured the spirit of Leana using pinks and purples. We also felt that butterflies (free to fly about) and clouds (for the heavens) were important elements to reflect Leana.
Drawn/constructed in Affinity Designer on the Mac, printed out by a local print shop on an A4 Silk card 300gsm folds to an A5 to finish.
I also made a wee cross stitch to match the one made for her brother Leo. The pattern was drawn out on square paper and hand stitched.
Just something quick and simple with the help of the Epson creative library. I love cards and wrapping papers that are printed. Epson makes it easy to print, fast and fun ideas that add a personal touch.
For my arty uncle, I decided I wanted something arty. I played with block shapes/colours and thought it ended up looking very Bauhaus inspired and therefore perfect for an artist.
Drawn in procreate on the ipad transfered to Affinity Designer on the Mac to finish, a bold, printed out on an A4 Gloss card 210gsm folds to an A5 to finish.
I wanted to do something special for this wedding card so I made my own flowers: Sweet Peas and Daisys which are flowers for the month of April. I also decided to make a soft dot pattern for the background and the envelope. I’m so happy with how it turned out, I added a little touch of metallic silver to highlight the box and flowers.
I started by drawing the flowers and background in affinity designer on the iPad then moved to the Mac to pull together all the text and patterns. The card is printed on Matt Koala A3 230gsm (cut and folded to 190mm squared) and the envelope is Hp everyday A3 90gsm. I then used my new scoring tool to create crisp fold lines and added the pocked into the card.
To celebrate friends fathers 70th I decided to go all out. I sewed my own Diana Troi outfit (from the next generation, season 3) as well as creating a bottle of ‘ Aldebaran Whisky’ and simple card.
Dress: pattern based on a paper pattern which I edited moving darts on bodice, lowering the waistline, lengthening the sleeves and added zip cuff as well as adding the front leg split. The fabric is 4 way stretch scuba crepe jersey in turquoise. I actually really enjoyed working with this fabric due to the forgiving stretch nature but also how formal the fabric looks.
Bottle: the bottle is an old caorunn gin bottle with new labels being printed on Matt adhesive paper. The front label is actually on the back of the bottle as I loved the ‘made in Scotland’ embossed as I wanted it displayed on the front. It’s filled with green apple syrup and the ingredients are listed on the new label.
Card: created in Affinity designer, simple design with a metal pin on the front printed out on koala (A3 cut down to A4) double sided Matt 230gsm folds to an A5 to finish.
For this Birthday card, I decided to do a watercolour painting by hand using watercolour pens (Chromatek)on 300gsm watercolour paper, this was then scanned in and text added to create a digital card ready to print. I think this is also a great card as it goes with the gift of these pens so it shows what can be done with them.
Drawn by hand using real watercolour paper/pens gives a more original style piece true to work done years ago, printed out on an A4 Gloss card 210gsm folds to an A5 to finish.
I wanted something super sweet but funny for Valentine so I decided on love heart sweets with a funny message inside. I really like how it came out as a printed design even more three-dimensional than I had imagined.
Drawn in Procreate using chalk and airbrush to create a soft look, printed out on an A4 Gloss card 210gsm folds to an A5 to finish.
Jenn Vass 