Family celebrations
Posted: February 27, 2024 Filed under: Ciao Bella, Darkroom Door, global postmarks, rice papers | Tags: Ciao Bella, Darkroom Door stamps, Mixed Media 9 Comments
We recently enjoyed an exciting weekend as a family celebrating a birthday and a premiere. I used rice papers, sheet music and dictionary pages to create two custom cards. If you have done any of my online classes you might know my son is a videographer. He filmed my five classes for me but most of his time is spent on very different projects. Over the last few years he has been working on his first movie length documentary. It premiered in Ottawa a couple of weeks ago and our family along, with an excited crowd, were blown away by ‘City Limits: Ottawa’s Hip Hop History’.
I had a lovely time creating a celebratory card using a sheet of Ciao Bella’s rice paper. I have a little stash of Ciao Bella papers that I hadn’t dipped into and this was definitely the right occasion. The paper is aptly called ‘The director‘. I cut a large section to be the card front, tore a corner featuring film reels to go inside and transformed two small bits into faux stamps for the envelope. I am a little obsessed with faux stamps at present and like to make them realistic with the Darkroom Door global postmarks stamp set.
I used a couple of dictionary pages to add to the overall theme. Behind the projector panel is a dictionary page featuring the word ‘film’ and you can see the torn section of the ‘documentary’ page below.
We celebrated my husband’s birthday the same weekend and I paired the CiaoBella blue note cards rice paper panel this time with sheet music, being that my husband is a guitarist. The rice paper already had a tiny music print on it but the music paper I glued behind had a larger staff. I used it inside the card and under the greeting as well.
And yes, he did sight read the little segment I glued inside the card; he’s a musician!
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Heather Telford 
Congratulations to your family for so many wonderful events. Your cards are beautiful.
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Wow, congratulations to your son on the premiere of his feature length film, and also Happy Birthday to your husband, and what fabulous cards you made with these very apt rice papers you used, and what with a film maker and a guitarist in the family, and of course your sporty daughter who is also creative with her website, and your creativity too Heather what a very talented family. x
Thank you Pat, it was a wonderful weekend and fun to pull out some pretty papers that had probably been sitting waiting to be used for a couple of years!
I know you are proud of your artistic children, Heather! And well you should be. Two beautiful cards made with the rice paper! Very special!
Thank you, Bonnie, I am a proud mama of my three children; I think they’re pretty clever!
My heart is full of Happiness for you, Heather! What a blessed Joy it is to have your children close and see them step into Life and to share the thrill of their accomplishments you probably never expected or anticipated in your ‘Mom’s’ wildest dreams! I read the newspaper article regarding your son’s work…Wow!!! What a fun night it must have been to attend his premier! What a talented family! And now for YOUR work…the cards above are wonderfully designed! Beautifully done! ♥♥♥
Thank you, Clelie, it was very special to have the five of us together for the birthday and then for the premiere it really made for an amazing weekend.
Oh my gosh … so many things to celebrate, Heather. Your whole family is so artistic and what a wonderful way to celebrate with these amazing cards. Congrats to your son on the premiere of his exciting project. And happy birthday to your hubby! xx
This is SO impressive and what a fun reason to celebrate. Your mixed media work is phenomenal! And what talented children you have too. There is just so much to see when looking at this card.