All That Glitters is Gold

From: Kate Spade
Subject Line: decorate! with accessories for enchanted evenings
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008

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Date: Friday, January 23, 2009

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Date: Monday, February 2, 2009





Ever since way back when I have been obsessed the use of gold and silver in my personal artwork and one of the first things I looked into when I started going digital was how to do the metallic effect thing. Back in the day, I used to hand-make my Holiday Cards and I can assure you, they were anything but simple (or inexpensive to make for that matter). We're talking 1995 here. I essentially would do a collage of various wrapping papers, store-bought holiday cards that I cut up and then put them on nice card stock - then spent hours on each card making the argyle borders with pencil and ruler, and then filling the argyle pattern in with metallic markers (I'm pretty sure I went through a dozen each of the silver and gold - not to mention how dizzy I would get from the fumes). Oh yeah... then I would laminate them (4 panels and folded up, accordion-style). I'm sure I did it the hard way... Adobe Photoshop was invented, but it was version 3.0 - no CS.

In any event, now I see that to do the gold effect it is as simple as having a photo image with some gold in it + text and/or borders with a mustard-y color. :) And I'll probably always have a fondness for All That Glitters...