Retirement

This week, the Art Impressions Blog has a challenge to turn

 your negative pieces from punches or die-cuts into  positive artwork!

 

This is the card I'm submitting:

 

I began by cutting out the words HAPPY RETIREMENT with my Silhouette.

this is a picture of my computer screen:

 

Once it was cut out I threw away the letters and was left with the negative space.

I used this piece of cardstock as my card front panel.

 

After stamping the Ai guy, I colored him with copics and

did some extra shading with prismacolor pencils.

Then I popped the panel up over some really cute brown gingham plaid paper.

Maybe you can see the dimension a little better here:

 

 

The negative spaces from the cut out letters bothered me without the centers in the A,P's and R's,

so I rescued them from the trash and stuck them to the gingham paper under the letters.

 

Had fun today, hope you did too!

 

till next time,

Doni