Happy Muslim Mama: Cards for Eid Al-Adha: First Batch

This eid, I didn’t plan on making cards, thinking I would not have the time. Then I bought some eid clothes for my nephews and neices in Pakistan and thought it would be nice to send a card with them. I remember last year looking at my craft supplies for ages and not knowing where to start. So this year I pasted down a bunch of different backgrounds from bits of paper and cuttings and let them be my starting point.

This background is from an Eid magazine put out by the Mayor of London for Eid ul-Fitr 2008 featuring the amazing work of an artist called Shahida Ahmed. (I found the magazine online here). This purple and gold pattern is from a luxury-goods catalogue, I continued the pattern onto the background with a gold stamp. More of the same catalogue paper with a different stamp and different shaped gems. I just wish I could cut straight (I have a guillotine I found in the £-shop, but it doesn’t cut leaving clean lines – I guess that’s why it costs a pound). Another background from the eid magazine. Also a background from the eid magazine This was one of a series of different coloured pictures I cut out from a university brochure. They were all natural looking shots in different colours (including the one before).
Incidentally, this is where I get my Eid Mubarak and Happy Eid peel-offs.