Cabinet Card Curiosities – Designed For Alpha Stamps

Poor Lenore.  Personally, I think the raven did in Lenore because it had a crush on Poe.  How else would the raven know???

Alpha Stamps Products Used in This Piece

• Cab Card Frame - Arch
• Postale 8x8 Paper Pad
• Timeless Paper Pad
• Wooden Pane Window
• Poe’s Words Collage Sheet
• Edgar Allen Poe Collage Sheet
• Vintage Women Collage Sheet
• Center Stitched Ribbon – Tan/Rust
• Lacey Ovals – Die-Cut Chipboard
• Curved Brass Hinges
• Small Fold Over Bails – Antique Gold
• Mini Velvet Leaves
• Mini Black Paper Blooms
• Mini Lilies – Cream (painted orange using Caramel Alcohol Ink
• Sheet of Black Dresden Wings
• 3/8 Inch Gold-Edged Iridescent Ribbons
• Distress Ink Pad – Vintage Photo
• Distress Ink Pad – Black Soot
• Alcohol Inks - Caramel

Hidden Beauty - Altered Cabinet Card

This is a altered cabinet card that I made for one of the creative team members (Julia Craighead).  As a group we've been doing a couple of rounds of trading altered cards.

Le Courtesan - Altered Cabinet Card

I made the turquoise flower in the upper right corner by first printing the flower on white presentation paper then printing the image in three smaller sizes on vellum.  I glued all the pieces together and added pearls.  The butterflies, bee and fan are all images of jewelry.

If you aren't familar with cabinet cards they were the style of photograph which was universally adopted for photographic portraiture in 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph that was generally mounted on cards measuring 4¼ by 6½ inches.

Three Muses Challenge - Old Fashioned

The Three Muses Challenge this week is “Old Fashioned”.  My entry is an altered cabinet card titled “Miss Prim”.  She of course has all kinds of rules that a woman must follow.

• Do not scrape your plate
• Set the table as beautifully as possible
• The husband should always find the wife fresh, beautiful, sweet as a flower
• Never scratch your head, pick your teeth, or clean your nails in public
• Do not be in haste; compose yourself
• Loud thumping with canes and umbrellas, in demonstration of applause is decidedly rude.

 The card is coated with wax.  I pressed a stamp in the corners while the wax was hot and added alcohol ink to give it more dimension.  Below is the card before altering.