WoW!!!

Okay *hands up*. I need to have a moment here. After over a month of planning and work, I've finally finished the card of all cards in the history of Lydz Card Studio.

This project started a while back when three friends of mine approached me with an idea. The three of them were invited to a wedding this weekend to a couple that had met in the World of Warcraft (WoW) game. They proposed doing a whole WoW themed card, and doing an illustration that could span across three cards. That way, each person would be able to give the couple an individual card to attach their own gift and message, yet collectively, the three would make up a whole image.

I'm into gaming, but WoW was new territory for me. After much searching on the net and help from my buddies, I decided on drawing out the cathedral that many WoW characters get married in the game, with the WoW characters of the bride and groom on the front, in appropriate WoW wedding attire.

I'll be the first to admit that this card was quite the challenge, and found it tough at times to get through certain parts. But i'm very satisfied with how it turned out and was able to realize the vision I had for it, and If I had the chance to go back in time and do it again, I would.

Congratulations to the couple, I hope you love the card as much as I loved making it!!

The card was drawn entirely by hand and colored with pencil crayons.

The three individual cards...


...and the whole image together!

Birthday Butterflies

I recently completed an order for a butterfly themed birthday card for a very special mother :) HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Black and Silver Wedding

Here is a card that was ordered for a wedding whose wedding colors were silver and black. Congratulations you two!

Martinis on a Yacht

Here is a card that was ordered for someone whose birthday theme was martinis on a yacht. Happy Birthday!

Pucca & Garu

Okay I love this card. If any of you saw the Pucca card I made a little while back, you could consider this the second edition. The person who received that Pucca card wanted to have me design a wedding anniversary card for her husband with the same characters, so here it is! Pucca and Garu were created using handcut layered paper. Happy Anniversary!

Costa Rica Wedding

This was ordered for a couple getting married in Costa Rica, the client wanted to have the card reflect that theme. :)

Happy Birthday, Anton!

I made this card for my good friend Anton, due to his love of lobster. I also bought him a lobster and crab cookbook to match. Hope you had a happy birthday! *kersh*

Volleyball Wedding Card

I had an order for a wedding card, and they wanted the wedding ring to have a volleyball instead of a rock, because the couple met while playing volleyball. Awww!


I love these oddball requests I get. Haha, get it? I said oddball, haha, because of the volleyba-


Never mind.

A Couple More Cards I Made

Someone just bought the doggie one today :)

Cat's Meow

And another birthday card order...for a cat lover :)

"Siblinghood of the Travelling Card"

Another birthday card that was ordered. It was interesting: I was told that this would be a "travelling birthday card" in which the card first gets sent to the sibling with the closest birthday, then that sibling sends it to the next sibling's birthday, and so forth. Kind of like "Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants"...but not.

Yay Weddings!!

I 've always loved the summer: the sun, the hot weather, the activity, it's awesome! And it's even more awesome because of all the weddings, which means lots of wedding card orders! I have so many on the go, and I'll post them as they get done, but here are a couple that were recently completed:


This was created for a couple that's having a 1920's theme/old school hollywood type wedding, and the request was for it to be as such. Their wedding colors are red, black, and grey. I had a lot of fun with this one :)

This one was ordered to be done in the couple's wedding colors of ivory and this green.

Congratulations to the couples!!

Happy Birthday Michelle!

I made her a cupcake themed card which matched nicely with the cupcake recipe book I gave her for her birthday, in honor of her new cupcake business. Happy Birthday!




I also played around with some of my materials and had a bit of fun...I don't care what anyone else says, as much as we diss the '80's, it was a pretty awesome time :)

...as well as completing a few other orders, like this wedding card.

Happy Birthday Kim!

I made this for my friend Kim, the ultimate giraffe lover! Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Kathy!

I can't believe we've known each other for 22 years!! Hope you have a fantabulous birthday!

EXTRAVAGANZA!!

So for the first time ever I have to say I ventured into new cardmaking territory. I recently completed an order for an "extravaganza card" that was to be given to a couple who was having an "extravaganza party"

This couple was having a party that was celebrating: their new engagement, their coming home from a huge trip in Europe, and both their birthdays. Whew! As such, the couple who placed the order wanted to give them a card that embodied all those things. I encountered a bit of a "cardmaking block" (if there was such a term), until my fabulous friend Allix gave me the idea of a Storybook Card. And the rest went happily ever after :)

So *inhales* happy birthday, and happy birthday again, congratulations on the new engagement, and welcome home to the couple!! *exhales*

The things I do for a couple's "I do"

Here is a wedding card I recently finished, and the person who ordered it requested that it be in a champagne color, as that was the wedding color. So in all my efforts to ensure I had the right shade of champagne, I brought my laptop to the store so I could make sure the materials I selected matched the general shade of champagne I found on the internet (based on a collection of 10 images I found off Google).

Needless to say the store owners were giving me strange looks, but really, I just think that a color like champagne can be hard to determine sometimes, because you know, you go and think it's this color and then go home and realize it's something else and you kind of warped it in your mind and....

...anyways, here's the card. Congratulations!

Thank YOU!!

I want to give a giant THANK YOU to everyone who came out to check me out (I mean my booth!) at the Highland Market on Saturday. The weather was awesome, despite the odd spells of rain, and I couldn't have asked for a better day. The support and warm reception towards my cards mean a lot to me!! There was so much talent there and it was great meeting new faces and other local entrepreneurs sharing their own passion with the community.

Speaking of passion...the days following the market led me to think about me, my cards, what I'm all about, and what I'm trying to achieve.

What I do is extremely modest and small, and truth be told I don't even really think of myself as running a "business" because frankly, I think I'm having too much fun to justify calling it something serious like a "business." The simple fact is that I do it for the love of it and I do it for the love of what value people receive from it.

My mentality on "never creating the same card twice" proves to be both a blessing and a challenge, but it's the challenge I love! It forces me to think outside of the box, to try new designs, creations, styles.

As for blessings , I can't stress enough how much I love telling people that the card they are purchasing, or the card I am giving to a friend or family member is the only one that was, and will, be created. And with that you can't imagine the high I get when I receive positive feedback from customers about how much the recipients loved their cards, how it was their favorite of all the cards received, that it was the one they kept after throwing the others away, and that it was the card that they displayed most prominently in their home. It's comments like these that let me how much the cards make them feel special and valued, which is exactly what I'm trying to achieve.

In this growing world of a buhjillion people, we're constantly surrounded by others: at work, school, with friends, family, it's endless. But despite all that, everyone in this world is created unique and beautiful in their own right, and well, shouldn't the cards that represent the important events in their lives be just the same?

Oops!

Sorry, I realized my post below was wrong, the market is on 65 Street and 112 Avenue...got my streets and avenue accidentally mixed up!!!

Basically if you're heading north on Wayne Gretzky Drive just exit onto 112 Ave and you'll hit it. It's very close to the Highlands Golf Course.

Still At It...

Hi all!

With the Highland Market a few days away, I've been spending the last little while making some more cards for the event (you should see my room right now, it's like my supplies threw up all over the place). So, I thought I'd take a break and post a bit more of what I've done!

Enjoy, and don't forget to visit me on Saturday from 10am - 5pm at the Highland Market located on 65 Street and 112 Avenue!

See you there!