Thursday, 9 January 2025

Distressed, vintage collage.

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Just playing with a small panel to use some of the new stamps I bought well before Christmas that I haven't got to yet. I used new card that didn't allow me to pull the colours out of the distress inks but even so still quite happy with the finished effects,

The panel was just blended, dipped, dripped and dried with the same colours and dried.

I stamped the typewriter and cut it out ....

 ..... as well as the 25 and words ready to put a collage together. 

At this point i decided to add some 49 and Market rub-ns, I just love how they seem to melt into the paper they are so easy to use.

I punched out the white star on the blue background for the tiny hardware head and glued it in and gave it a covering of glossy accents.

I gathered some snippets together and cut a side tab and stamped it as well as second generation stamped onto the panel as well. I then spattered with the white paint.

It then just all came together and is ready to add to my Tim Holtz shabby-vintage panel journal.


Thanks for stopping by.







Supplies

TH DIs Pumice Stone, Hickory Smoke

TH Stamps - Curiosity Shop CMS482, Way With Words CMS165

TH Hardware Heads

TH Frames and Trims

49 ad Market Rub Ons

TH Marker - Faded Jeans

Archival inks - Black, Watering Can

Glossy Accents, Snowflake Fresco Finish Paint,

Card = PaperMill Direct

PaperArtsy Snowflake paint.

Incorporate your own sketches into a collage.

 Pen and Ink sketches on distress ink backgrounds with collage

CREATE

During the Pandemic I did very little art but as we came out of it I started drawing some flowers and also some pen and ink flower shapes as silhouette sketches. I started to create collages with both and a few have been mounted in black sketchbooks. The dates of these begin at 7th Feb 2020. So as I have a number completed and a number of small silhouettes ready to use I thought it would be a good opportunity to record them here and perhaps share them to social media. 

Here is the first one and the title word gives the background to my motivation completely. There was I wanting to get creating and making particularly with my own drawings and at the time the silhouettes fitted the bill.

I used an old die cut.......

... and some gold foil....

.... and enjoyed putting the collage together.

Thanks for looking.