Saturday, March 20, 2010

Positive and Negative



The backgrounds are from a very old cut I made on DS before the laptop died. It's made from one cut and two pages of the same paper. The positive cut is glued on one paper. I used painters tape to remove the negative and turn it over to apply glue to the back of it. You can also use the positive image to make a pattern by lightly tracing a pencil as a guide for gluing the negative. To get the full effect, the border of the image has to go over the "cutting" line.

The image I used is from page 37 in Storybook using the accent/frame feature. The seventh image in the third row. The "Positive" title is the base cut from the Opposites Attract cartridge. The shadow was made by making a second cut in a darker paper and gluing the lighter slightly above and to the left of the darker. Rhinestones bling up the i's. The "negative" title is the trapezoid feature in Opposites Attract cartridge. I glued the letters on top of the lighter paper used for positive and cut the shadow to fit.

The journalling is on vellum (not seen here) about how the same thing can be positive and negative. I haven't figured out how I'm going to attach the vellum yet. On the one hand it's done, on the other hand it's not lol.

5 comments:

flowerdisco said...

Wow, nice! Did you frame it? I would love something like it on one of my walls.

Ohhh Snap said...

I put it in my scrapbook, but it would be easy peasy to frame. HL frequently has 12x12 frames on sale for 50% off. Painter's tape is a favorite tool lol.

Audrey Frelx said...

This I like a lot!!! I can even see it as a card background!

DonnaMundinger said...

Oh so very cool and creative! LOVE it! xxD

Penny Light/Light Whimsy said...

Awesome. I love your instructions too. I really like the positive and negative effect, but too often, I don't think to use it. Thanks for the BEAUTIFUL reminder!