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I coloured the background with distress inks and stamped the Old Letter Writing. I green embossed the Swirl with Flowers and added a scallop border. The dragonfly is from the digi kit Winged Friends. I printed onto acetate and applied Stickles to make him sparkly.
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"Christmas Series" Number 509
Copyrighted By J.J. Marks N.Y.
This is a beautiful antique embossed postcard that was done by J.J. Marks of New York for their Christmas Series 509.
J.J. Marks (1908-1912) / New York, NY. - A publisher of lithographic postcards in a Comic Series and holiday cards.
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With never a shadow, never a sigh
Though ever the years go fleeting by,
May Christmastide true joys impart,
A life of love, a song at the heart.
I thought that ToniItality's embossed cakes and cookies were so beautiful, that I asked her about how to do them. She very, VERY kindly gave me loads of advice and information....but I just couldn't wait for my new embossing things to arrive, so I used some old things I had while I'm waiting!
For the #MacroMondays theme for 2/12, we have been tasked with presenting anachronisms- old fashioned artifacts. Embossing pages with a stamp or creating book plates seems to fit the bill. These days if readers keep track of their actual books, it’s probably done digitally or on kindles.
Later I’ll post a picture of the embossing tool.
Hi all! I really really really like the whole doilies thing that is in style now (plus it's so cheap!) But I have had a hard time coming up with ways to use them! Than I thought of embossing the Blooming Meadow on it and was so pleased that it worked out! :>
I was given a sheet of magazine scraps which had been applied to a background in a haphazard manner and was asked to use this as a source of inspiration!
I find this sort of challenge VERY difficult as I usually work to an idea, not an image.
After a mild panic I decided to gesso the whole page in an attempt to tone down the images and then I used it to create a folder which I then die cut and embossed.
I then grabbed the scrap bag and started to machine embroider images which started to leap from the page.
This is one sample.
For a birthday girl to be put with other cupcakes......they still have to have their black & white ribbons put one!! ( I didn't geta good photo of them with those on...rushed)
It was too hot to take pics of these on-the-feet in Panama so I had to wait to get back to cool, crisp Montana to get this pic. Koigu KPPPM, Colorway 1205.
Linking to Virginia View's Challenge #20: All About Textures: virginiasviewchallenge.blogspot.com/2015/11/virginias-vie...
Gorgeous new Clearly Besotted #STAMPtember collaboration
More photos and details on my blog:
limedoodledesign.com/2015/09/heat-embossing-2/
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Debby
...... with my new embossing mat!
I found this rather nice embossing mat in the craft section of a warehouse store (ESK) near us so I just had to test it out!
The mat is double sided and also does the reverse emboss of this pattern.
I stripped the ferrotype portrait from my embossed card, it was on layers anyway, and loaded it as large as I could so that you can download it and produce your own mini ferrotype portrait. The original was 2.4 by 4 inches. Knock out the background and use it to layer over the portrait of your choosing.
It was obvious that I could not use the embossed ferrotype card as scanned. I had to set it up in environmental light from a single source to bring proper modeling. As always, "normal" lighting in this case comes from the upper left. Perhaps more distinctly sharp lighting might present the embossing in a better light. After I got my photo's shot to exact rectilinear in shape and dropped it on top my Photoshop PSD. This is now far superior to the scanned embossed card. I figured that I would probably have to do this even when the original was scanning. Now I can consider that this retouch job is a wrap.
I had to maximize the scan resolution on the image so that I could do my best editing the mini image and get the best results. The ferrotype plate was larger than the oval cutout but I decided not to tear the old card apart. Who knows what could happen. I returned it to another layer under the knocked out stock embossed card. I had very little overlap so I lost very little.
I have no idea what happened to it in someone's long custody other than normal atmospheric deterioration. There were creases at the top but no surface damage on the left side. I might have been a damaged negative. As always, under - applying retouching is always better than creating cartoons.