Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge for September 12, 2016 was "At The Movies" No other instructions, just "At The Movies"...
I took it to mean a real movie, or a take on a real movie, attending a movie, or even the profession of making a movie, but I was stymied/. I mulled it over for some time. Eventually, my brain said there is one image you instantly associate with a movie you will ALWAYS remember, and that is the lineup graphic for "The Usual Suspects" (1995). Maybe I liked it because I have been taken with Kevin Spacey since he first caught my eye in a long-ago television series called "Wiseguy"; maybe it was because of the twisty plot and surprise ending. But still, how to adapt "The Usual Suspects" to a card without violating copyright laws and without having any stamps which could be put to that use?
I decided to do a total twist on that line-up, using my die sets for the Mini-Crazy Birds and Mini Crazy Cats and Dogs. After all, in our house, whenever something happens, be it the rapid disappearance of pumpkin pie (the cat ate it! is my husband's cry) or the presence of surprise on the carpet (one of the cats really did "do it"),it is the cats who are ":The Usual Suspects".
My first step was to create a line-up "background". I used Yvonne Blair's Journal Buddy" to create horizontal lines and added some Heidi Grace rub-ons for the numbers:
I took it to mean a real movie, or a take on a real movie, attending a movie, or even the profession of making a movie, but I was stymied/. I mulled it over for some time. Eventually, my brain said there is one image you instantly associate with a movie you will ALWAYS remember, and that is the lineup graphic for "The Usual Suspects" (1995). Maybe I liked it because I have been taken with Kevin Spacey since he first caught my eye in a long-ago television series called "Wiseguy"; maybe it was because of the twisty plot and surprise ending. But still, how to adapt "The Usual Suspects" to a card without violating copyright laws and without having any stamps which could be put to that use?
I decided to do a total twist on that line-up, using my die sets for the Mini-Crazy Birds and Mini Crazy Cats and Dogs. After all, in our house, whenever something happens, be it the rapid disappearance of pumpkin pie (the cat ate it! is my husband's cry) or the presence of surprise on the carpet (one of the cats really did "do it"),it is the cats who are ":The Usual Suspects".
My first step was to create a line-up "background". I used Yvonne Blair's Journal Buddy" to create horizontal lines and added some Heidi Grace rub-ons for the numbers:
Next - the "suspects" I chose one bird, two cats and two dogs (all more-or-less front-facing) from the die set and cut them as silhouettes from a black card scrap (previously run through my Xyron sticker maker). After arranging a strip of Idea-ology film strip ribbon on the card, I attached the images:
Now, as hard as it may be for me to believe that there are people out there who have not seen "The Usual Suspects", I had to take that into account (after all, I know of people who have never seen "American Graffiti"! Or "Morse"! Or any number of other films and series I am so very fond of! My gosh, am I THAT old? So...if you don't know the movie, please do NOT tell me --- just go right out and RENT it!). So I added a title to the piece, modifying the film title to account for the number of letter stickers I actually had!
Can YOU identify the "Most" unusual suspect?
Products used in making this card were:
Products used in making this card were:
- Dies: Framelits "Mini Crazy Cats & Dogs" (661694) and "Mini Bird Crazy & Things" (660949)
- Inks: Pigma Micron 05 "black"
- Papers: Paper Studion Value Pack "ivory", scrap black
- Embellishments: Heidi Grace "Journaling Alphabet" rub-ons (28019-19); Idea-ology Film Strip Ribbon; Graphic 45 Cityscapes Cardstock Stickers
- Adhesives: Mini- Attacher; Xyron 500 Sticker Maker
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