This is a neat little effect that can be accomplished easily on a scrapbook page or card. Notice the versatility!!!! It is simple and easy to accomplish. You just need multiple copies of your photo or stamped image.
It makes for a really neat background!
The first example that we will walk through will be a digital scrapbook page, but you will see that it would make a very cute Christmas Card as well.
The picture below was taken in my garden. It isn't a very exciting photograph of a bee balm flower, but we will turn it into something very cute.
This photograph was cropped and the sides were trimmed at a 20° angle to produce the image below.
To reproduce this on a 12" x 12" scrapbook page, use 9 - 4" x 6" pictures. If you use a very busy picture, a fun kaleidoscope image is created. For illustration a very simple picture is used here. The pictures are then glued to the 12" x 12" scrapbook page by slightly over lapping the trimmed edge to produce the image below.
This screams both Christmas & flower to me, so I've added some simple details digitally to create this finished image. If It were a regular scrapbook image, I would trim the corners with nice semi-circle punch and add a circle punch out to the middle along with some ribbon and maybe a label from the hodgepodge hardware kit.
Although it is a digital scrapbook page, you can see how the technique could easily be transferred to a card. Matter of fact, a smaller version of this with the right embellishments would make a lovely Christmas card.
Below is a card example of this technique using the Bugs & Kisses stamp Set.
Here are some more common examples, so that you can get a better idea of the Kaleidoscope effect.
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Awesome Maria! THANKS for sharing!
Posted by: Juli Smith | August 06, 2008 at 02:18 AM