.lindsiloolabell79: A Touch of Pleasantville

Evening All.

Today I spent the day printing off pages of my backgrounds, and matching papers...Then decided I hadn't used my Promarker's in a while. So abandoned the backgrounds, and picked up the pens.

For a while now, I've wanted to try the whole Monochrome stamp look, you know the one, where your stamp is completely coloured, in nothing but grey's, to make it look black and white. So I chose one of my 1940's Girl Power digistamps, as I thought, being back in the era of black and white pictures, that it would be quite fitting. I chose one of the two Land Girl images, that I'd designed, and set to colouring her in nothing but grey tones, apart from her head scarf, belt and shoes; these, I decided to do red.

I did this, because as I was colouring her, I started thinking about the film Pleasantville, with Toby Mcguire and Reese Witherspoon. Where they wind up in a black and white land, and gradually, they bring colour to the people there...

I was also inspired from looking at (and doing my own) digital photography techniques, where a shot is taken, an object cut out, and the rest of the picture's saturation levels are reduced, until the rest of the picture is left in black and white, while the cut out area remains in colour.

Once she was complete, I stuck her onto a piece of white card, to give the image stability (it had originally been printed on paper) then cut out again. I took a standard card blank, and covered the front with generic, black card. I used a sizzix embossing folder set to emboss a panel, with flowers down one side, then used the other folder, to emboss an oval of both black and white card, with an all over flower pattern. I layered the panel onto the black, using double sided tape. I then added a strip of the same black card, added a strip of grey checked paper (my own creation on photoimpact) and added a band of red and white spotty ribbon, which I chose to compliment the spots on the stamp's head scarf. This was layered onto the card, just below half way down the surface. The black and white ovals were layered, and the digistamp added to these. I didn't have the correct colour doily, so took out my trusty promarker's once again, and changed the colour, from a washed out red, to one of a more vibrant hue. I placed the doily behind the image, slightly off center, then added bows; one to the side of the oval layers, and a smaller on onto the images hair, where it would tie together. I added a few ruby rhinestones to the flowers and the corners of the card to finish it off. I was really pleased with how it turned out in the end. See finished card below.