Vintage Image Craft Project Designed by Martin Bray from Vintage Image Craft
ANGELS WATCHING OVER ME An inspirational card craft created exclusively for Ruby for Women by www.VintageImageCraft.com. Paper tole is the art of creating three-dimensional pictures by layering pictorial elements. This Victorian image of a host of angels lends itself beautifully to the paper tole technique. You can use any cardstock color or pattern you like, but we selected a simple powder blue to represent the heavens. Materials Vintage images (following these instructions). Premium matte or glossy photo paper. Card stock, powder blue. Spray glue, paper glue, glue stick, or double-stick tape. Foam mounting squares or tape. Craft knife or detail scissors. Scissors or paper cutter. Bone folder. Self-healing mat, if using a craft knife. Instructions Trim card stock to 10” x 7”. Fold it to a 5” x 7” vertical card, scoring and burnishing the crease with the bone folder. Print the vintage images onto matte or glossy photo paper or cardstock (Choose Print in Adobe Reader and specify the Ruby page number of the vintage images). Trim around the images carefully with detail scissors or a craft knife. You may also choose to trim the negative white spaces within the images. Glue the full image to the center of the front panel of the card. Apply several (5-8) small pieces of foam mounting tape to the backs of the three remaining cut-out images. Try to position the tape similarly on both images. You can apply the foam tape in a single layer, or double the thickness for a more dimensional card as we did Affix the image of the four angels to the full image on the card, aligned over the identical elements. Affix the final two individual angels, aligned with their counterparts on the second image. Embellish the images with glitter, glitter glue, distress ink, or as your heart leads you. We applied crystal glitter glue to the rose crowns on the angels. Handwrite, rubber stamp, or insert your personal message inside. For our card, we chose: “The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.” Jean Paul Richter
Notes This finished card is 5” x 7”, which fits a common 5.25” x 7.25” envelope (also known as an A7 size). Scott & Martin 2009 Brayerson Publications. All rights reserved. VintageImageCraft.com is dedicated to providing ideas, instructions and resources to crafters, scrapbookers, artists, and all who are interested in creating new artistic works incorporating vintage images. To inspire and feed your creativity, we offer free craft and scrapbook project instructions and downloadable vintage images. 2010 Brayerson Publications
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