"Photo" Card

Hello!  I'm thrilled to join the Butterfly Reflections, Ink. design team this term and I look forward to sharing some fun projects with you.  The idea for this "photo" card was actually a collaboration with my 8-year-old son, who is my crafty side-kick!  I recently ordered the Lawn Fawn say cheese, again dies and some Lawn Fawn acetate from the Butterfly Reflections, Ink. shop.  I knew that I wanted to make a photo with a glossy surface, just like an actual polaroid picture.  My son had the idea to put the photo on a "bulletin board" ... we had a lot of fun brainstorming the best way to create it!

I started the whole project by tracing the photo die shape on some marker-friendly paper and planning out my images within the frame.  The mouse is from Lawn Fawn's mice on ice stamp set, his hat is from Lawn Fawn's holiday party animal stamp set, and the berries and house are from Lawn Fawn's frosty fairy friends stamp set (I LOVE that set for winter images!).  After stamping the images, I created some masks so that I could ink blend the background of the "photo."

I used broken china distress oxide ink (with some splashes of water) for my background and Copic markers to color my scene (E31, E33, E37, E39, V01, V12, V15, V17, V09, B000, N5, N3, N1, W1, W00, R20, YG67, YG17 and YG25).  I also used W00 and W1 to color the frame of my photo so that it wasn't just stark white.

Next, I created my "bulletin board."  I used Copic markers to dot (and dot and dot and dot ...) paper I had cut using the Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle die.  I ended up using E31, E33, E53 and E21 to get some color variation and the mottled look of cork.

I created the "frame" for the bulletin board by using the same stitched rectangle die to cut Lawn Fawn black card stock, this time using the outside piece.  To assemble the card, I adhered the acetate to the back of the photo frame, the photo frame to the "photo," and then the framed photo to the "bulletin board."  I attached the bulletin board piece and the bulletin board frame to card stock folded to an A2 card size.  For a finishing touch, I used glossy accents on the bulletin board frame as well as on the "pin" (a circle cut from black card stock and adhered with foam tape).  I embossed a sentiment from the mice on ice set with silver embossing powder on a Lawn Fawn everyday sentiment banner and attached it to the card with more foam tape.

I hope this card inspires you to make your own photo card ... I think this idea would be so fun with a real photo in the frame!