Sunday, January 31, 2010

Moxie Fab Challenge - Anne Taintor style card


Hi all,
I am back this time with a card I made for the Moxie Fab World blog challenge. The challenge was to make a card in the "Anne Taintor" style. Anne Taintor is known for her humorous take on vintage images. Here is the link to the challenge: http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2010/01/lets-get-sassy-taintor-tude-challenge.html
I knew right away where I would find my image to use. I bought a calendar back in 2005 called "Hemlines" which has all kinds of old '50s style patterns for dresses. I found the image I wanted to use and scanned it. I want to save the original so I use the scanned copy to create with. After printing out the image I cut it into a rectangle. I made a card from purple cardstock to match colors in the image. I then cut a DCWV scallop black paper so that the scallop edge was on the long edge of the card. I then added a thin white satin ribbon which is just taped on the back of the black piece. I adhered the black piece to the purple card. I then took my image and inked the edges with purple ink. I attached it to the black piece on the card. I printed the sentiment taken from a list of favorite Anne Taintor sayings on her website. I thought this saying matched the ladies in the picture perfectly. I cut out each sentence and matted them on black cardstock. I attached them as shown. To finish I added some bling stones under the saying and also to the main lady's dress. I also used Stardust clear gel pen to bling up her earrings. And that was it! What a fun challenge. Now that I have my vintage calendar out I believe I shall make some more of these "Anne Taintor-tude" cards.
Thanks for stopping by,
Janet

4 comments:

Rae said...

Absolutely cute! Love the sass!

Anonymous said...

Keep posting stuff like this i really like it

Windy Robinson Life Handmade said...

Fun card! Love your sentiment:)

Unknown said...

Hey Janet! Thanks for entering the Taintor-tude Challenge in the Moxie Fab World! :)