Fifth Card

Not sure how long this series will go on, but I'm certainly done with the "I Made A Thing" gimmick with the titles. The idea behind the tall, narrow slit (with very small off-center break) is from dealing with RAM upgrades, the way the chips have these little gaps between some of the contacts to keep them from being inserted incorrectly or in completely the wrong slot altogether. Had a bit of trouble with the glue on this one. I guess I didn't use enough, which is important when you're working with a smaller surface area than the previous cards (the butchered card worked out but that's because I put extra pressure on it from the thumbprint. Tried that with this one, but ended up nearly creasing the whole thing). 

I Made A(nother) Thing

I don't know if I'll make these kinds of entries (or videos for that matter) for every card I make, but it feels like a good groove to settle into for a while, so here goes nothing. 

This one's got a reverse side. Still not a "watermark" like I'd been planning, but as I'm still using pasted-on bits of graph paper, I guess these don't exactly lend themselves to that style. The "profile" in the upper left is the result of a rubber stamp rubbed along its edge with the brown Sharpie calligraphy pen (then filled in once stamped to help it stand out as it came out very light). I'm not quite sure it works, but it does fit in with the overall concept of the card. 

The story goes that Charles Babbage got the idea for using punch cards for his "difference engines" from train tickets that would have details about passengers punched into little tables printed on the stubs. It's kind of a simple genius, really, given that there really weren't photo IDs back then, and not everyone had the ability to forge tickets. 

I Made A Thing

Tried out one of those Slice blades to make square/rectangular holes in some upcoming punch card-themed works. Not exactly the miracle tool I thought it was; when I first saw this thing, it looked like its point was a needle, and you could hold and use it like a pencil, effectively cutting (or at least scoring) anything you drew. Turns out it is simply a blade, although smaller and made from ceramic. The result of this is that the blade doesn't really bend, it never dulls, and cuts fairly deep but not so deep it gets stuck. Still, it didn't make particularly clean cuts in either the notebook page or the cardstock of the tag. 

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