An Original

It's week number two for me in the Designer Spotlight at Simon Says Stamp's Monday Challenge Blog. So exciting!

The theme is Distress It so I gave an inexpensive 4-inch chip brush some vintage style. Here's the before and after:

I clear embossed the handle using the Stampers Anonymous French Collage stamp then applied a heavy coat of Peacock Feathers Distress stain. Once dry, I ironed off the embossing and used Vintage Photo stain in random places.

I tinted the bristles by soaking them in a really strong solution of blue-green watercolor paint. After it dried, I brushed the tips through dark brown acrylic paint.

I covered the ferrule with a strip from the Aristocrat design tape collection (Idea-ology), used copper embossing powder in the bottom section and tinted the rest of the shiny parts with Ranger's Mushroom alcohol ink. I trimmed out the top with tiny dots made with copper-colored paint.

The edges of Tim's Baroque frame were embossed with copper powder and the other areas tinted with Mushroom alcohol ink. The gent inside came from Idea-ology's Dapper stash (it's part of a cigar box label). The four is an Idea-ology Number Brad.

I topped my brush with scrap jewelry pieces attached with string (tinted with Distress ink) and an Idea-ology Quote Chip that was altered with sanding, tinting and copper embossing.

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Here's a list of some the products I used for this challenge:

Stampers Anonymous French Collage	Distress Stains - Peacock Feathers	Vintage Photo - Distress Stains	Tim Holtz Idea-ology ARISTOCRAT Design Tape	Zing Copper Embossing Powder
Tim Holtz Idea-ology BAROQUE FRAMES Findings	Tim Holtz Idea-ology 12 x 12 Paper Stash DAPPER	Tim Holtz Idea-ology NUMBER BRADS	Tim-Holtz-Idea-ology-QUOTE-CHIPS