From a distance...

Hello everyone!  I hope you're enjoying seeing everyone's work with the amazing new Paperboy release as much as I am...

I'm sharing my Paperboy diorama with you here today at Artistic Outpost.  I love that the stamps include images with different dimensions - to me it was an immediate invitation to play with scale and distance (any Father Ted fans out there who remember this brilliant 30-second scene will know exactly what I mean!).

I used the Cabinet Card and mini Cabinet Card dies to create my 3D setting.  I covered some chipboard with the text tissue wrap, which has a pretty good look of newsprint, before cutting the frames.

The gorgeous cityscape is clearly furthest away, so that's my background image.

The girls are in the middle distance, stuck to the back of the central frame.

And the paperboy himself is right in the foreground attached to the first frame.  They're all stamped in Black Archival, and shaded with Antique Linen distress stain, applied with a waterbrush.

To create the padding between the frames, I used the foam inserts that come as part of the packaging with the Texture Fade embossing folders, sliced in half lengthwise.

I added some metal embellishing to the the front, but otherwise kept it pretty simple to let these fantastic images do the talking.

Thanks so much for dropping by today.  And don't forget that with just one AO stamp involved in a project, you can enter the March Referral Programme here at AO - we'd love to have you play along!

Designer: Alison Bomber
Words and Pictures