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Using sections from
magazines as a backgrounds is one of my favorite techniques. It
works especially well when you feel stuck or blocked because the
card already has a strong starting point. To better illustrate this
page has two before and after cards with detailed descriptions as
to how I finished each of the cards.
I stared with these backgrounds. I attached the
section of magazine to a pre-cut piece of 80# card stock. I use
Rubber Cement for this as it gives a permanent bond without curling
or wrinkling.
Pre-cut ATC sized card stock
in different weights are available on this site. See the Artist
Trading Cards Supplies page.
and now for the fun stuff...
Lady in Green
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First I found the image of of woman and
just knew she wanted to be on the lily of the valley background
but since she and the background had the same color value
I had to somehow mute the background a bit. First I used
a opaque white acrylic paint, I brushed on bits and smeared
with my finger, this was still a bit boring so I added tiny
dabs of gold and blended the two paints together. Because
this is a coated stock I had a bit of time before the paint
dried. I added more white and gold around the outside edges
to frame the woman image. Then I glued the woman down and
smeared a bit more of the white and gold paint around the
edges of the cutout to blend her in. The bottom edges were
still to stark so I found another cutout of a lacy gift
bag and used sections of it on the bottom corners. The 3
cutouts on the top and sides are squares from a quilt stamp
embossed and cutout from another magazine section, these
I did not put any paint on so that there would be some contrast.
Then it seemed to need an edge, so I used a gold gel pen
and went around the edges of the card. Finally, I coated
the entire card with a gloss medium this had a wonderful
surprise effect of lifting some of the ink from the gel
pen and giving the edges a more blended effect.
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Mystic Shoreline
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This card almost felt like cheating, the
background had so much of the image I wanted I hardly had
to do anything. There are only 2 cutouts the flower and
the deco pin that were cut from other magazines. I used
the line in the tree trunks for the placement of the pin
and you can see that the lower petal of the flower aligns
with the tower on the castle. I glued these down first,
then used a purple gel pen and smeared it along the horizon
to give it a more mystic look. Then coated the entire card
with gloss gel medium. I use my finger to apply the gel
medium, it find it gives me better control on any ink, paint
etc. that it may lift and blend and I can get a very thin
coat this way to avoid any lifting and curling of the elements
glued to the card. And as a final touch the little pearl
circle, which I was hoping would look like a full moon,
just happen to be on my worktable so I added it with a glue
dot.
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Below
are more examples of Artist Trading Cards I have done starting with
a magazine image background.
click
on any of these images to see a larger version
The embellishments and cutouts
used to create these cards are typical of items included in Bmuse
Collage Ephemera Packs
Learn how to make your own background
cards on the Collage Techniques
page #2
there is no limit to
what you can do with this technique ...see over 300 Artist Trading
Cards done using this technique in a recent ACT Challenge Swap in
the Bmuse Galleries
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