Paper Chase 2 for Country View Crafts

As our first anniversary for Country View Crafts is drawing to a close I am excited to share my second DT sample for the month which is a vintaged mini album using the French Industrial paper stash and a multitude of other snippets from Tim Holtz products and lots of other scraps that fitted into the overall shabby/vintage/distressed effects I was trying to achieve. It is where I have used the Playing Cards I showed for my first DT piece for this challenge.

Hope you have got a cuppa in your hand because there are loads of photos.

I wanted to create a mini album that would give me space to grow as I filled it and lots of secret places to hold photographs.

These are the book pages and papers that covered them and the brown hinges are the mechanism that gave me enough space to add lots of layers once the book was made.

Here you can see the outside of the hinges once they have been inserted and then covered with a spine made of thick paper and stamped with picket fence distress paint.

A birds eye view shows the way the hinges stick out from the pages creating that ability to ‘stretch’ once layers and embellishments are added.

So although I made the album neatly, the layouts and collages became very shabby indeed, quite a contrast to the more formal beginning. These are all the pages singly and together showing how the altered playing cards became flaps to hide photos.

Pages 1 and 2 – that's a little handmade envelope on the left’

Pages 3 and 4 – the right hand side has a band to tuck photos under.

Pages 5 and 6 – the piece on the right with the quote on is also a mini page.

Pages 7 and 8 – again the whole piece on the right lifts as a flap.

Pages 9 and 10 – the attendance certificate is a hideaway for a pull out mat.

Pages 11 and 12 – the bingo flap lifts up

Pages 13 and 14 – the pocket on the left has concertina edges so that you can stuff lots of small memorabilia etc. inside of it.

So there we are a little mini album measuring 16 x 11 cms. All I need to do now is get it filled with photos lol.

If you haven’t had a chance to enter the challenge I hope you manage to before the end of the month and celebrate our paper anniversary.

Have a fabulous weekend whatever activities you have got planned or just relax and have some chill time.

Thanks for stopping by.

hugs {brenda} x0x

  

Chunky Vintage Car Tag - Crafty Individuals

This tag for Crafty Individuals is another collage tag this time using the Chunky Vintage Car Tag (CI 405) which is one of the newest arrivals at the CI shop. I have displayed it along with (CI-408) Ornamental Wishes, which is also a brand new image released very recently.

The image was stamped in Watering Can and watercoloured with evergreen bough, bundled sage, black soot, pumice stone and frayed burlap distress inks.

The Wishes image was first stamped with antique linen distress paint, when dry it was dipped in the above distress inks and then blended over with evergreen bough and iced spruce DI. The sentiment didn’t show up as much as I wanted so I went over it with white posca pen.

The black background tag was stamped with a CI swirl stamp in embossing ink and covered with clear EP and heated. When cool I brayered evergreen bough and antique linen distress paints over and dried. Then I stamped another new release – Medieval Manuscript (CI – 406) in picket fence distress paint and again heat dried it. This gave the background a more mottled effect than I was expecting, but I love it anyway.

I gathered some CI tickets to use as ephemera to join the images together.

The backing paper is a My Mind’s Eye lost and found 12 x 12 paper cut down to DL size.

So that’s the second tag made into a card with the new stamps from CI. They are gorgeous vintage designs., do pop over and take a look.

I hope your week is going well.

hugs {brenda} xx

A tag post at A Vintage Journey

As a brand new challenge blog A Vintage Journey is not yet into it’s full cycle of posts. Alternate Fridays will have the new challenge go live and the following week will announce the winners of the previous challenge, but as there are no winners yet we are sharing a special post which we have called Tag Friday

My tag is one that I actually made the background for last year and didn’t get finished. It involved masking off the images and stamping over, building up a collage of a number of stamps on which I added some tissue tape. That’s where I left it. So I decided it should be finished and published. I had already started to embellish before I realised I hadn’t taken a photo of just the background. It was made using shabby shutters and tumbled glass distress paints, dipping and dabbing until I liked the blended colours.

The stamp set is Purely Random and has this lovely little quote on it.

And as there are stamps of two people dancing (a man and a woman) I added a couple to the cash key using the Stampin’ Up 1/2 inch circle punch and a snippet from the Lost and Found paper stash.

Here are the two dancers …..

The film strip has snippets from Tim’s papers (I keep all the offcuts for such purposes, the corner is from the frames and trims industrious stickers and I also added a single pointer on the clock and a number 8 with some distress paint dabbed on.

I hope you enjoy all the tags on display at A Vintage Journey and I hope you are travelling with us.

Have a great weekend.

hugs {brenda} x0x

A Textured Canvas Workshop

I recently did a workshop with a lovely group of ladies making this textured canvas.

There are numerous layers of papers, paints, texture paste through masks, stamps, tea and embellishments and although I prepped by doing the die-cutting before hand we still got these made in three hours.

We used the Tim Holtz clock die and the jumbo and normal tattered florals dies too.

The Martha Stewart punched butterflies were laid over a stack of three white butterflies stuck together to give added dimension.

The cluster of embellishments at the bottom really makes a statement….

… and the butterflies flutter up the canvas to create some height.

And these are what my lovely ladies created – I was so proud of what they achieved in terms of techniques and final outcomes.

Didn't they do a great job?

Yesterday the workshop focused on the gelli plate and we had a great morning just playing making mono prints, ghost prints and layered prints - such great fun.

Hope your week is going well.

hugs Brenda xx