Follow In My Footsteps - Wishful

Using the last of the backgrounds for this mini series 1, this panel came about really quite simply. By choosing the small ephemera card of the Boston store to work with I just searched my left overs, kept in small boxes, to fit a green theme and this is what I came up with.

I wonder what the story is of this young woman? Does she work in the store and restock the shelves or is it one of her favourite stores to visit? Perhaps she went in recently and bought something for 23 shillings.

If you haven't seen the previous three in the series they are Soulful, Thoughtful and Determined.

The steps to follow for creating the background can be found by visiting a Vintage Collage Tag, created in July 2017.

Supplies I used -

DecoArt Chalky Finish paints in relic, lace, rustic, revive, raw umber, burnt umber and quinacridone gold.

Tinting Base

Text stamp

Collage ephemera

Follow In My Footsteps - Determined

I loved using the same background for the four small panels I am sharing in this first mini series of 'Follow In My Footsteps'. Rather than make a masterboard and cut it up I cut the panels and did exactly the same steps on each one, hence the similarities in them.

 All the collage elements were pieces on my desk are from small boxes of oddments I keep for such projects. In fact the left panel under the photo is an old book spine of a book called The Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott. The book has been altered and used and I couldn't bear to throw the cover and spine away even though it was very tattered.

If you haven't seen the previous two in the series they are Soulful and Thoughtful.

The steps to follow can be found by visiting a Vintage Collage Tag, created in July 2017.

Supplies

DecoArt Chalky Finish paints in relic, lace, rustic, revive, raw umber, burnt umber and quinacridone gold.

Tinting Base

Text stamp

Collage ephemera

Follow In My Footsteps - Soulful

This is a completely different way of creating a new project and I'll give you the background to it at the end of the post. But I intend this to become a bit of a series.

So welcome to the first of -

"Follow In My Footsteps"

I love how the little collection of small elements to create the collage came together and the added wash of tinting base and the highlighting and shadowing using the paints brought it all together perfectly.

Supplies

DecoArt Chalky Finish paints in relic, lace, rustic, revive, raw umber, burnt umber and quinacridone gold.

Tinting Base

Text stamp

Collage ephemera

The steps to follow can be found by visiting a Vintage Collage Tag, created in July 2017.

OK so this is the background information I promised you. I love writing up the step by steps to my projects and I always say my blog is primarily for me to keep a record of the work I do. It is wonderful that many of you visit both silently and with comments and I know from the stats that hundreds of you receive my blog posts by email. I love it that you pop in and am so grateful to have so many blogging friends, some of whom I know and have met in real life and many I know just by visiting and seeing your work. 

Having said all that I feel I don't make the most of visits to you or to my own blog posts and yes I love the whole process of creating something new from scratch but I have decided I would also like to revisit some of my older posts and recreate the steps I had put together to make a new piece of art work and to create something completely different. Hence the title.

This piece is going in my Positivity Journal

Another one of these coming soon.

hugs Brenda xxx