I had told myself not to get anymore PET film tapes or stickers, but it’s sometimes really really hard to resist!! So I bought from Daiso this set of cute animal stickers, together with some pastel mini cards & matching envelopes. I’m combining these with the Chinese sentiment PET film stickers in my stash to make some quick & easy collage cards.
It was a no-brainer project: just stick a cute animal sticker in a corner of a matching coloured mini card, find a sentiment that can fit into blank space, and voilà!
What I found more difficult was trying to take a good picture of the final result! It’s really not easy to photograph PET films – my usual “flat-on-the-ground-with-natural-lighting” did NOT work well at all, the edges of the film are way too obvious (left photo). I tried holding the card up against outdoor lighting, but the result turns out too dark (right photo).
In the end, I found that photographing without any natural light shining directly on the card (right photo) works the best. Holding the card in my hand allows me to tilt the card at an angle that minimises the reflection.
But of course, on the actual cards, the shiny surfaces would be a clear contrast against the matte pastel paper. I still have some trouble accepting this – I usually prefer all shiny or all matte surfaces – but I’m learning. Perhaps I can add some embellishments, then with the different textures it’ll be considered mixed media!!! ;P
I matched the 3 sets of mini cards I bought – blue, pink and green – with the animal film stickers for a different background.
By using at least one animal sticker on each card, I quickly exhausted an entire sheet (of out 2 in the set) of film stickers to create 10 different collage cards.
The Chinese sentiments I used consist of various positive phrases: for example, the 5 words above translate as “fortunately there’s still light/hope”, while the sentence on the left loosely means “happiness every year”.
These message cards would thus serve well as little greetings to my friends – if I could bear to give them away!
Trying to Craft 