For today's Newsprint Challenge, I grabbed another piece of my very old newspaper (from 188 to make a masculine birthday card. The bottom and right edges are naturally distressed. The left and top edges were torn this morning. This thin paper is very easy to tear exactly how I want it. Even though it is my nephew's birthday tomorrow, this is actually for a friend who asked me to make a birthday card for her nephew. I thought the Big News sentiment would be awesome for this challenge, so I to the idea to combine pieces of different sentiments and make it into a ransom note style. But it was kind of boring when I put it together. So I added some blueprint stamps to the paper and assembled the card. That's when I realized it was still boring and I should have heat embossed the sentiments. But it was too late for that. So I added Nuvo Crystal Glaze to the colored letters and traced over the black letters with black glaze pen. Now it's go the texture and shine that I want.
I have pictures of the newspaper and the other card I made today on my blog: The Stamping Actuary
Date: Thursday, June 17, 2021 GMT Views: 356
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Thu, Jun 17, 2021 @ 10:07 AM
I think this turned out great...a really fun design. You'll have to remember for next time the things you felt you should have done this time...I think the blue writing and the Nuvo drops work well for some emphasis.