Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Cardboard Creations: Country Stars

Between my recent Frontmen II custom set and stumbling across some Panini country music cards on eBay, I decided to go ahead and make myself a set of card featuring some of my favorite country artists. I've been into country music since I was a kid back in the 90's so this seemed like another fun way to work in some of my other interests here.

I used the same basic template as the Frontmen sets, but made some tweaks here and there. Considering these went from just an idea to a completed concept in less than a day, I'm pretty happy with the results. My favorite new feature for this set has to be the marquee lights that follow the borders on the top and bottom. 

I even worked in a little hockey with a new version of the Predators shoulder patch logo. I figured with it being a guitar pick and all, it would work perfectly here. I just changed the colors and the initials at the bottom are for the name of this set. The first one of this new set features my favorite new country artist Luke Combs.


The other really neat feature that I randomly added at the last minute is the faded silhouette of the Nashville skyline at the bottom. Since I was not using that area for a band logo this time, I needed to do something and this seem like a cool idea. 

Here are the rest of them together: 


I really like how these turned out. I have one other music themed set idea I'm working on so hopefully I'll be able to get that posted here sometime soon. I do in fact plan on posting about hockey cards again, I just really got into designing these things for the moment.

9 comments:

  1. I thought I was the only card blogger who listened to country music! Cool! I just got a handful of cards from the Panini set you mentioned this past Saturday.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. That's cool. I might have to take a look at the checklist for that set to see if any of my favorite artists are included.

      Delete
  2. These are awesome. I purchased a box of Panini Country for my ex... and she loved it, so I'm sure she'd be all over these if you actually printed them out. Only problem... you're missing her main man... Toby Keith.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks!

      I do like some Toby Keith once in a while too. Maybe I should make an update version of this set with some of the older country stars I listen to as well.

      Delete
    2. If you do... I'll send a screenshot of it to her. Who knows... maybe she'll become one of your custom card groupies :)

      Delete
    3. Nice... lol

      I just made one with Keith for the fun of it, and to see how quick I could do it, but I didn't have a way to post it into this comment section.

      Delete
    4. Aww... bummer. Any chance you could add it to this post?

      Delete
    5. Actually, I just posted it on twitter: https://twitter.com/cbmmrPaul/status/895845234659254272

      Delete