I love taking photos of flowers, and sunflowers are my favorite flower. So when I saw that this week's challenge was to make a photo or print transfer, I took one of my sunflower photos. I printed it with a gray scale, onto just plain printer paper.. Then I took a piece of cardboard that I had put gesso on. I covered over the gesso with Mod Podge and then placed the photo face down onto the Mod Podge. When it dried I sprayed the back of the paper with water and rubbed away the paper leaving the image. I then added color with water coloring and gold shimmer spray and gold acrylic paint and distress inks. Because "direction" didn't matter, I didn't flip the photo before printing, but if the photo had had words, I would have flipped it before printing.
The free for all is to have something that flies. I have 2 butterflies.
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Registered: October 26, 2009 Location: Oakhurst, near Yosemite Nat'l Park. Posts: 46821
Fri, Jul 17, 2015 @ 7:45 AM
Marilynn, first, thank you for making a sample, that was a fun hijacked conversation and it turned out to be quite lovely for me!!
This is really pretty with all that "stuff" on your card!!! Gotta love mixed media!! I love your brads and doily and butterfly and that burlap with the joy! SOOO fun to look at! Thanks for sampling and playing!
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Registered: May 23, 2009 Location: sunny california Posts: 9826
Fri, Jul 17, 2015 @ 8:03 AM
Marilynn, this should be used as wall art. It is absolutely stunning. You have such a talent for mixed media cards. You always pick just the right colirs, textures, and shapes to creste an amazing work of art. This one stopped me in my tracks. I love looking at it and noticing new details. Into my favs and pinned to my mixed midea board.
Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105288
Fri, Jul 17, 2015 @ 8:06 AM
What a fascinating card this is, MariLynn. I'm so glad you put in a description of how it was done. I'm going to try this!!!
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 132020
Fri, Jul 17, 2015 @ 12:21 PM
Wow, MariLynn, this is just amazing. I'm thinking how stupid I am never to have thought of just printing a photo onto plain paper...I knew that most transfer techniques wouldn't work with photo paper but I never took the thought process any further. Thanks for the inspiration from this amazing card.
Registered: October 21, 2010 Location: in the okanagan in b.c. canada Posts: 13012
Fri, Jul 17, 2015 @ 2:40 PM
Very neat design. My daughter joins you with the love of sunflowers...grows many of them in her yard. Very clever how you used it for the image. Fun use of the different elements and textures...TFS..:0)
------------------------------ We as people are raindrops of colorful ink , falling down Crisp and Clear, each a different shade more vibrant then the last, but once we realize at the bottom of an endless abyss we all fall into the same inkpot forming one color, only then can we come together as one My son.