This is a birthday card for my son which I will be sending digitally as he is out of the country right now. He is a pilot so I went looking on line for aircraft blueprint images and found several that were very good!! This one is from Drawing Database. There a blueprints for vehicles, aircraft and watercraft among other things. I imported the image into Corel Draw, sized it and then rotated and duplicated it several times to create a background I was happy with. To add some texture, I cut and pasted the definition of airplane from an online dictionary, changed the font and sized it so it would fill the page by duplicating the text as many times as necessary. That was what I wanted it to look like. I printed the letter sized sheet and then trimmed out four quarter sheet backgrounds. For this card, I watercoloured the background with blue to simulate a sky, added a piece of vintage seam binding to the middle of my background and adhered it to a blue card front. I tied a short piece of seam binding onto the one on my card with a single knot to simulate a bow. I found a laser printed greeting in my stash, flagged the end, sponged the edges and then ran my pattern tracing wheel on both long edges. I mounted it over the seam binding using 3D foam tape. I like that I can colour this laser printed background any colour to give these images a very different feel. Therese
