Hello. Just a quick post to share a birthday card that I made for my Nephew’s first birthday. I meant to post this a week ago, but I went back to school to study French and the first week was a bit hectic.
Excuse the poor lighting. Daylight saving time hasn’t begun in Europe yet and it had been a bit grey outside when I took this pic! I need to sort myself out a portable light box. If anyone has any recommendations, I would appreciate them.
I made the negative by die cutting shrink plastic with Tim Holtz mini filmstrip and ticket decorative strip die. I dropped alcohol inks onto the plastic until it resembled a real negative strip. I printed miniature photos of my Nephew throughout his first year using my Canon Selphy printer.
I stamped, watercolored with distress markers and fussy cut the balloon blueprints and die cut a cameo frame from grungeboard and inked with distress paint and inks.
Thanks for taking the time to look at my card and thank you for your comments, I really do appreciate them.
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supplies: tim holtz; surfaces (distress watercolor cardstock, grungeboard, manilla cardstock, shrink plastic, core-dinations kraft core)/distress ink (stormy sky, vintage photo, walnut stain)/distress ink markers (stormy sky, frayed burlap, pumice stone)/distress paint (stormy sky, picket fence)/alcohol inks (espresso)/idea-ology (paper stash french industrial, industrious stickers borders)/dies (cameo frame, sized ovals, tattered banners, mini filmstrip & mini tickets)/stamps (#154 mini blueprints 4)
other: archival ink (jet black)/glossy accents/sewing machine
What a great idea to use shrink plastic for the filmstrip so that it looks like the acetate of an actual filmstrip. The alcohol inks do a great job of coloring it. Thanks for posting!
genius move on the shrink plastic film strip! Never would have thought of that and you make it look easy.
Beautifully done!