Once Upon A Time....

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday!

For my second project for the "Vintage" challenge at Country View Challenges  I made a page in my little art pad.

It´s a quick and simple page, because I am in the middle of chaos at home. I renovate my floors and I have to put all furnitures from one room to the other. And being in the flow, I renew some of my cupboards (sand them and paint new), paint the walls etc......

Well, time for crafting and being on social medias is rare you can imagine!

Therefor it will be a short post.

This is what I did:

I brushed vintage photo DI over the page, sprinkled water on top and let it dry. Then I stamped with Archival ink coffee the first Tiny prints stamps from Tim Holtz randomly to the background and then the second one with Archival ink sepia randomly on top.

I stapeled some paper pieces from my stash together after I distressed the edges with vintage photo.

I glued them down with foam tape and glued a picture from the Vintage Photobooth pad from Finnabair as a focal point to the cluster. I stamped the words with black Archival ink directly onto the page and last I tied a little bow with a yarn and a silver string. I took a cap from a bottle and made some rings with DI evergreen bough to finish the page - That´s it!

That´s it from here for now.

I hope, you will join in with our challenge this month, there is enough time left to make something vintage. You know, you have the chance to win a 20 £ voucher for the shop!

Thank you for your visit today!

Art Journal Page "Be You"

Hello and happy June!

For the new challenge over at Country View Challenges with the theme "Vintage" I made an art journal page.

This is what I did:

(I apologise for the bad quality of the pictures, I guess I had bad light)

I wanted to try out the faux bleeching technique, which Tim Holtz showed in one of his lives.

I prepared my pages with some snippets of old bookpages to cover some paint and then I spreat white Gesso over the whole page and let it dry.

Now I took DO speckled egg, salvaged patina and uncharted mariner and blended the colours from light to dark from the top of the page downwards. I used a blending brush.

Time for stamping!

I used  one of the floral trims stamps and Versafine  onyx black ink and stamped around the pages.

Now I used a waterbrush and lifted some of the DO ink to "bleech" the florals. The result is sooo amazing!

I prepared another piece of paper, stamped the floral trim again, "bleeched" the flowers and cut them out.

I chose one of the paper dolls Portraits, put some foam pads to it´s back and glued it to the page. The fuzzycut flowers I glued around the portrait. Now I only had to glue down the saying (TH label stickers "thoughts"). 

Here are some close ups:

I hope you like my pages as much as I do and feel inspired to make something vintage for our challenge this month. As always you can win a 20£ voucher for the shop!

Thank you for your visit!