I'm placing this card in the Ways to Use it and the Limited Supplies challenges this week. Thanks very much to Julia and Jeanne S for wonderful examples! Again, it was one of those...ya just know what you're going to do, you just DON'T know how you'll get there!
I've wanted to play with this picture of my husband for many years...today I scanned it into the computer, printed it on copy paper...inked it with VersaMark and embossed it with two coats of clear EP I love that picture, the fish is half the size of my DH! Plus... can you see the 4 inch cuffs on his dungarees? I also love the white picket fence and the two tone car. I used Basic Grey papers from the Boxer collection to mount the photo on as well as the card front. I stamped a bracket from Above the Mark in dragonfly green and embossed in clear. The snaps are from MM as well as are the brads. I 'borrowed' some sort of big hook from my husbands' workbench and stapled it to the card front. I KNOTTED a green cord through the eye and also used it down the left side. My wonderfully insightful sentiment is by Artistic Outpost. I stamped on watercolor paper in ChalkBox lipstick red and inked the edges with charcoal. The base is unknown red and I scored the left side so it opens from the right side.
It's so neat having this window into my husbands' childhood...he still loves fishing as much today as I'm sure he did then. And tomorrow is a big tournament and he always shares his winnings with me...can we say let's go shopping?!!! Thanks so much for your comments
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Fri, Jun 13, 2008 @ 5:26 AM
The sentiment says it all. Priceless!! Thanks for the info on how you celar embossed the photo copy.
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Fri, Jun 13, 2008 @ 5:47 AM
Amazing card, Susan. I like how you bowed the photo image. The textures are awesome too!
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Fri, Jun 13, 2008 @ 7:27 AM
Susan, this is such a cool card! All the terrific stamps and embellishments make it a wonderful card, but the picture and the sentimentality of it are what to me make it so fabulous! Every element works so perfectly together, and your husband is going to love it! I hope he really reels in the big one this weekend!
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Fri, Jun 13, 2008 @ 7:49 AM
Susan, this is awesome! I love the childhood memories here, and how you were able to make a copy of the photo without having to mess up the photo itself! Your dh will love this personalized card!
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