Normally I make my siblings calendars for Christmas, of photos I take throughout the year. The family voted not to exchange gifts this year so I decided to make them Thanksgiving presents. I am hosting them all tomorrow for our Thanksgiving dinner, and will hand them out then.
*Credit for this goes to Casey (a niece of a friend) she posted this on FB of her baby.* I took gift tissue and taped it to the back of a piece of printer paper. I made 8 but only needed 5 copies...some got stuck in printer, or left ink on the face of the picture so print more than you need...just in case.
(Me and the printer have a love/hate relationship.)
Trim it down.
My canvas was larger than the photo,so I tore part of the tissue photo for the 'aged' look.
I inked the edges with Staz-On ink and brushed it with the mod podge.
Carefully laid the tissue down, with a dry brush tried to remove as many wrinkles as possible.
The lady is my Momma at the age of 17-18 years old.
I didn't like the stark white of the canvas and I noticed the ink smeared as
I tried to mod podge on top of the tissues so decided to buy spray fixative.
I let them dry for a few days.
I liked the stamp showing through a little and I was trying to
show how the tissue took on the canvas texture.
Before spraying, I took Tim Holtz ink and distressed the canvas,
drilled holes and pushed ribbon through. Even added a charm.
4 comments:
Wow, this is soooo neat! I bet they were thrilled!
That is SO cool, Carol!
I love this Carol! I might have to steal your idea with a pic of my parents. :)
Truly beautiful, I love this project!! =) I would have never thought to use the canvas board. Definitely will have to give this a try!
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