Last year I had planned on making a series of greetings cards that were kind of naughty and tongue in cheek, kind of taking the piss out of the tackiness and predictability of general greetings cards, since valentines had just gone I thought that would be the perfect time to start them, and I plan on creating more designs for different holidays, the next one being Easter. I kind of wanted to mock normal valentine's cards, hence the flowers, and have a funny juxtaposition between the cute pretty flowers and the rude text.
I wanted to keep the colour simple, so I kept to a two colour palette. I think the accent of colour in the flowers adds to the prettiness of it, and I tried to keep all the colours in a pretty similar palette so that they would compliment each other in a set.
These were probably my best recieved pieces of work, I sold them on my Etsy and made a small profit, I definitely want to make a bigger deal out of these in the future because I think they have real potential to be popular, there's a huge gap in the market for non twee, rubbish valentine's cards, and greetings cards in general, and I'd really missed making funny work, it was a pleasure to see people laugh when they saw them.
I ended up printing on matt paper, because I couldn't find a stock that was shiny on the outside but then matt on the inside that you could write on, all the paper in uni is slightly shiny on both sides, so I'll have to look into that before I sell the next run of them on Etsy.
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