My Custom Cards. (Simpsons Project Framed)

[klingonmaquis]

good stuff man! Looks like I am not the only one going after Dexter autographs. I have a coouple of promotional posters I am sending out to the cast I got from work.

[Foedhrass]

Wow, I really like the Dexter cards. It's a beautiful way to use pictures with no high quality.


Good luck with your requests - Dexter is a really great show!

[DarbyD53]

Thanks for the comments. Always nice to see the good and bad people might say. Glad the Dexters and Simpsons got good comments as they are my two favorites I've done.

[vjw0307]

Have you gotten any of the Simpsons back yet?

[Michele---]

Love the new Dexter style! Fantastic job. Also, in case you didn't know....don't send to Julie Benz's agency, they don't pass on fan mail.

Cheers,
Michele

[DarbyD53]

Thanks for the info on Miss Benz. I was going to try her at a VV/Set Location. I had heard she either stopped signing via agency or something.


I did get one Simpsons back yet. I posted it here:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=184970

Hope that link works. thanks for the feedback!

[nicole175]

just messing around the top one was my frist try and the bottom one I have done ones like that before and yes I know they arent the best in the world lol also how can you get to be the right size lol

[DarbyD53]

Those are good. As far as getting it the right size, my program I use has presize layouts like 4x6's and etc. so that helps me a lot. Then I just use the measurement (ruler) that is above and below my picture to try to get things as centered as I can and go from there. It's hard to find pictures so time that are the right level of height and width without having to stretch them out, you just gotta keep looking till you find which works best. A friend of mine is actually wanting me to make her some Twilight themed cards and I'm probably going to do a couple of rough drafts this week to see where she wants to go from there.

Also you can see the first ones one page 1 of Dexter to what I've done know. It just sometimes takes me a while to get the look I want, but I really enjoy doing these almost as much as I like sending and getting them back. lol

[zipbags]

Sorry..I am late to this thread. So far everyone's looks real nice. I am honored that I inspired some of you to do this. Just a suggestion (learned for my mistakes). When doing the area that the celeb signs. Try to keep it plain and white. This way if you can't get the celeb to sign it and your able to find a sig from a reputable dealer. You can matte it behind.

For example. On my Lost customs. I was foolish and made the backgrounds gray. So when I have had to matte sigs behind. It just doesn't look as good as if it was a white background.
Look at the Jeremy Davies, Jeff Fahey and Rodrigo Santoro sigs. The backgrounds are white..while the rest are gray.



On a side note. Nicole, I laughed when I saw your Dakota Fanning cards. Not because their is anything wrong with them. Just the timing. I just got back a request from her for my daughter.


On a even sider note Not sure if you know. A trading card company has released Dexter trading cards. And their are autographs.

[DarbyD53]

As of this moment I've gave up on the matte side of things. I will try to get back into it this coming winter when I'm sitting around the house. I bought some and fooled around with it, but didnt have luck, but it's my own fault, not the products.

I know my cards are busy, but to be honest I really like them busy. esp since some of them will just stay in a photo album. I'm like a fish I'm attracted to things with lots of color and sparkles (other than Twilight Vampires)

Here is a quick A Christmas Story card I did up yesterday. Not 100% happy with it, but I got till the end of the month to make changes to it if I want to. I will be sending some of these out Oct 1st. to help with getting in the holiday mood.