bamlinden customs

[djauwerda]

Awesome stuff. Love the design on the Howe card.

[size17shoes]

awesome designs

[Sportfreund]

Do you mind if I ask you what effect you used to get that cross-stiched look on Howe's face? For making vintage customs, I wanna use that effect since a normal photo looks really out of place. I've gotten near to it using Topaz but never really got there.

[bamlinden]

Do you mind if I ask you what effect you used to get that cross-stiched look on Howe's face? For making vintage customs, I wanna use that effect since a normal photo looks really out of place. I've gotten near to it using Topaz but never really got there.

Hello,

Not an effect. I found the picture on the internet. It was that way to begin.

Keep plugging away...would love to see some of your attempts.

Cheers.

[bamlinden]

I've been slowly knocking some customs off of my plate and thought I'd share one that had me thinking outside the box.



I had somebody ask me to build a card to house his ticket from Jarome Iginla's 1000th point game. Having never done anything oversized before I thought it would be a great chance to try something new.

At 6 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches.........I know - real traditional eh? - it's about the size of a comic book (and actually fits into a comic book bag perfectly).



The back is pretty simple as I let the text do the talking. I was able to find a photo from the actual game which is a little touch that I liked.

You may have noticed the little square in the bottom left corner.



That square is the outside the box I was talking about.

I wanted to do something special with the ticket.



I didn't want the ticket to be something that was permanently adhered to the card so I found a way to have it "sit" in the card. It can be removed (albeit with a little effort) so that the ticket isn't compromised in any way.



I was pumped when the finished product turned out almost exactly the way I wanted. I learned a lot through this "trial & error" process and the work put in really paid off.

I really liked this project. Hope you do too.

[GUCD231]

Brett,looks awesome bud.I love the idea and ability to remove the ticket.

[lilmezzy]

Awesome idea and the card turned out great.