Altering vintage postcards or using them as a background is fun and I'm surprised how well the paper holds up to wet mediums.
I stamped the fish on tissue paper using a set bought many years ago at a craft fair. I used Pitt brush pens to tint them and Distress inks for the watery background.
I'm linking up to Simon for this week's challenge, "Back to School."
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
This card was made with a stamp by Laurel Burch whose art features bright, bold and playful colors. Honestly, I've never had much luck tinting this stamp in the same style (it's harder than it looks).
But given the Simon challenge this week (Red, White and Blue), I limited my palette to just those colors and had better success.
I stamped on top of scrapbook paper, used Pitt brush pens to tint, and applied the image to a background printed with a gelli plate. The text is a Small Talk sticker and the dots were made with a gel pen.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
I began with scrapbook paper for the background that's black with printed glittered bees evenly distributed throughout the page.
Then I heat embossed it with the stamped image (Simon's Floral Garden) and painted the inside of the flowers and leaves white. It was easy to scrape paint off the embossing if I went outside the lines by gently using my X-Acto knife.
I tinted the flowers and darkened some of the wings with Pitt Artist Brush Pens.
The text is a Tim Holtz Chipboard Quote peeled away from the chip board so it would lay flat against the tag and embellished with a line of gold Stickles.
I'm linking up with Simon's Wild and Wonderful challenge.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
I've used a 20-year old stamp (Stampin' Up) on a scrap from a Somerset Magazine along with a Remnant Rub and 3D pearl drops along the border.
I wanted a background that would emulate the landscape but it was dark and I knew the stamp impression might get lost in it so, after stamping, I filled in it.
First with a layer of watered-down white paint and a tiny brush. Then I went back over the white paint with various Pitt Brush Pens to give it color.
I re-darkened the black stamp lines with an ultra-fine marker, as needed.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
I've used a Found Relative (Tim Holtz) to feature in this tag. Was Halloween just around the corner since this little tyke is wearing what appears to be a uniform jacket (that's a tad too big)?
The flowers were drawn by Alphonse Mucha (clipped from one of his posters) and I also used a torn bit of book paper tinted with inks and embossed with polka dots.
All the collage elements were placed on top of an oversized image of an old envelope that was found in a book on philately.
I'm linking to Simon's Monday challenge since Halloween is the theme.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
A tag to share made with some Tim Holtz stuff: a Found Relative, a butterfly and a stencil called Thatched.
The Simon September card kit came with some of his Sentiment label stickers that didn't really appeal to me so I used them to cover a manila tag. Then I applied another layer over them using texture paste and the stencil.
I tinted the dress, skin tone and accents using Pitt artist brushes which are made from India ink, are waterproof, permanent and easily applied to the slick surface (highly recommend).
There are some collage bits: the text is from an old book, there's the crown and the flower-like accents (which are actually from an astronomy diagram).
I used some Liquid Pearls along the bottom.
I'm linking up to Simon's Monday challenge--this week's theme is to have "fun with stencils."
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
Divertimento is a musical genre with most examples from the 18th century. The mood is lighthearted and generally composed for a small ensemble. It was the style of music I listened to (Mozart) while crafting this tag (hence the name of my post) and it seems to suit this fashionable lady.
The style of her "leg of mutton" sleeves dates from the 1840's and some were so large it was necessary to turn sideways to get through a door. If you'd like to see more examples, here's a link.
I cut the flowers from multi-color paper (Lavinia Garden Dance) and stamped them with gray archival ink. The lady's flowers and dress were tinted with Pitt brush pens.
I'm linking up to Simon this week, dry emboss is the challenge.
And as always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
A small collage to share today with a link-up to Simon, the theme this week is "Feminine."
I used a Tim Holtz embossing folder (Roses) and distress ink on pink paper which, after embossing, was made flat again by running it through the press.
The lady is a Paper Doll made thin by peeling off the backside and rubbing off as much paper as practical. She was tinted with a Pitt Artist Brush pen.
A butterfly stamp (Prima) on tissue paper was applied along with torn scraps of a business envelope.
The text was cut from a book and the background paper came from an old issue of Somerset Studio.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.