I've made a Vignette Tray assemblage/collage to share with you today. I chose the smaller tray size and used whiting (a wood stain) and some light sanding to alter the surface. This technique is known as "pickling."
I used this finish on a CHA 2017 project and here's the link if you'd like to see another example.
A Found Relative was cut-out and placed between a sandwich of two Baseboard Frames and vintage book paper of a blue sky was attached to the back.
The background consists of the stained wood of the tray along with vintage book paper text.
The large white script was made using a home-made stencil and white paint on Plain Collage Paper.
By using the collage paper, I have lots more control over where it's placed and after pasting down it becomes almost invisible.
The tiny bee on top is an image transfer on the backside of a vintage button (I filled in the holes with paste medium).
The sunburst is also a transfer and the image came from a Trader Joe's flyer.
The gentlemen were cut from French Industrial paper stash and there's also a vintage postage stamp.
The flowers were cut from the Wallflower paper stash and that's an Idea-ology key dabbed with white paint and dark ink to distress it.
The honeycomb was made with a Tim Holtz Mixed Media thinlet.
This piece was a long-time in the making and there were several versions before I finalized it.
Funny thing, though--I ended up returning to my original idea. I guess I needed to try out all the possibilities before I could fully embrace the design.
