A man named Victor Butler, the last surviving Tuskegee Airman (from WWII) in Rhode Island, turned 100 years old last month. I made this card for my brother & SIL to send him. They are both major WWII history buffs, so I thought they would really want to do this, & they did.
The Tuskegee Airmen flew P-51 Mustangs. Thankfully, I was able to find a coloring book page for one online, at http://www.supercoloring.com/colorin...s/p-51-mustang. (The image was drawn by Painter, & is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License.) It was a pdf file, and I needed to be able to resize it. So I downloaded it, printed it, & scanned it into my computer to create a digital image. I created a 5-1/2x8-1/2" "canvas" in Photoshop, & resized & angled the image so it would fit. Then I printed just the plane onto a scrap of vellum bristol paper. I used the eraser tool in Photoshop to remove most of the plane on the digital canvas, leaving only a couple of reference points & the one tiny propeller blade sticking out from behind the nosecone. Then I printed that onto a piece of mixed media paper.
I used the "Puffy Cloud Layers" stencil & Tumbled Glass Distress ink to add clouds to the background. I colored the airplane with colored pencils, & fussy cut it out. (I had to google images of the red-tail planes that the Tuskegee Airmen flew, so I could get the markings & colors right.) Because I had the tiny propeller blade printed on the background, I was able to cut it off the main image. I glued the plane onto the background, using the reference marks I'd printed to help me align it.
I heat embossed the greeting onto a strip of red cardstock, & cut it into a banner shape. I glued that to my panel, & used my paper piercer to poke holes for the string. Finally, I threaded through crochet twine so the plane looks like it is pulling the banner. Then I adhered the panel to a white card base.
Date: Thursday, June 2, 2022 GMT Views: 177
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Paper: Strathmore vellum bristol paper; Canson XL mixed media paper; white, red
Paper Size: A9
Ink: Versamark; Tumbled Glass Distress ink
Accessories: P-51 Mustang clipart downloaded from the Internet; Trinity Stamps "Puffy Cloud Layers" stencil; Ranger White Super Fine Detail embossing powder; Prismacolor colored pencils; Computer with Photoshop & printer