Welcome to the studio! I have been fluttering around my desk putting together another birthday card. This is one of my favorite kind of cards to make since there is always a birthday to celebrate and it's good to have cards on hand. I have a box of old photos - ones that I saved from the trash -remember before digital cameras when we had to have film developed and a lot of them never made it to a photo album or were not good enough to frame. I kept some of those rejects thinking that I could find ways to repurpose someday. I have used 2 of those rejected photos (shown below) in the making of this card. You can estimate how many years I have had them.
Using a recently learned Cloisonne Technique, I stamped an old butterfly stamp from Layers of Color with Versamark ink on the sunset glossy photo and heat embossed with gold EP and fussy cut the image. (Be careful not to get paper too hot or it will blister.) I trimmed the second photo of flowers and used it as a background mat on my card. I attached the butterfly and added with some die cut words cut with Cheery Lynn dies. I wanted the gold edge of the card base and the gold of the words all to match the gold on the butterfly so I used the same gold embossing powder to edge the white card base and to create a gold embossed strip to cut the words. That's what I call coordinating my golds.
Challenges:
ModSquad Challenge: Birthday Butterflies
As You Like It Challenge: Favorite Occasion (and Why) Birthdays. I enjoy sending a specially designed card to someone having a birthday as well as keeping a variety of birthday cards on hand. And I can be as creative as I want making every card in a different way.
As You See It Challenge: #268 Techniques. A favorite technique of mine is Cloisonne Technique using heat embossing. This is a new technique that I recently learned.
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Theresa
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Wow, Theresa, what a great way to really jazz up that butterfly! And great way to give new life to those perfect photos - such a fun design! Thanks so much for playing at As You See It!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great way to repurpose your old photos Theresa and give them a new lease of life. Such a pretty butterfly too! Thanks for sharing with us over at As You See It this week!
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting technique, Theresa! I need to look into it! Your butterfly is beautiful! Thanks for sharing your technique with us at As You See It Challenges!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I like the creative way you've used your old photos... and yes, I do remember those days! The butterfly is a stunner. It looks like a great technique to add to your toolbox. Thanks very much for joining in with us at As You See It Challenge.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful way to repurpose your photo (which was beautiful to begin with). Thanks so much for joining us at As You Like It Challenge.
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