Sweetest Thing

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.

No. 92

Mom turns 92 in about a week and this is the card I made for her. I used a stencil and white paint over a piece of scrapbook paper then tinted it slightly with colored pencils and inks.

I glued a scrap of white mulberry paper on the back of a die-cut butterfly then embellished it with glossy accents. The label was hand-made then stamped. The corner bits are just paper hole punches.

As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.

Until next time, take care.

Fashion Backward

Let us resolve, in this new year, to push back against the fashionable narrative. Reality is messy, and it always exceeds our grasp. That is not a counsel of despair; on the contrary. It is rather a call to guerrilla warfare against endlessly repeated banalities and untruths. - John Wilson

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To make this tag, I applied a reproduction of a vintage luggage tag (Cavallini & Co.) on a tag cut from a recycled box and used various inks to distress it. The ladies were cut from an image found on the net and they're standing on a strip of Design Tape (Holtz) and a scrap of sewing pattern tissue. The text was typed in Photoshop, reverse printed and applied using my image transfer technique.

As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.

Until next time, take care.