Tuesday 16 October 2012

A little bit vintage

This weeks challenge at Three Muses is Vintage but I struggled with any real clear concept of what I wanted to do.   After some playing around this is what I eventually came up with.
What about a Pimms darling!
The background is white Neenah card stock, with an open flower design stamped and embossed in white detail embossing powder.  I put some Vintage photo and Broken china distress ink on my craft mat and then spritzed it with pearlex powder mixed with water.  Then I dragged the paper through the various inks.  Drying the paper between each dipping.

Next I inked up some Claudine Hellmuth sticky back canvas with Antique Linen distress stain and left that to dry while I stamped an coloured the Vintage lady.  Once everything was dry I assembled as you see here and to finish I stamped the word Vintage at the top and a definition of Vintage at the right hand side.

Unfortunately you can't see the fabulous shimmer coming from the pearlex powder in this shot.  In real life it sparkles with silver.

16 comments:

  1. What a beautiful card you've made here! And yes, your 1920's flapper is truly vintage. Gorgeous piece! xx

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  2. Love the amazing background texture and colors, and the stylish vintage lady is delightful.

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  3. Amusant le petit echantillon de velours !
    très bonne idée !
    Amicalement mary.kg

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  4. What a gorgeous background, Liz, would make a perfect birthday card, wonderful piece!

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  5. beautiful how all the colours blend into each other and that stamped flower is the finishing touch. Love how you use all different techniques and explain what you did to us.

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  6. Great collage ....very well done :o)

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  7. Glorious background, Liz! You are so creative.xx

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  8. Such a classy vintage piece, Liz!

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  9. Thanks for sharing your journey of creation for this beautiful piece, Liz. It always adds so much to know how mixed media pieces are created, and makes them even more special.

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  10. She's três chic, Liz, and your background is awesome!

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  11. how elegant she is! great texture here!

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  12. I love it when you describe the process, Liz, and this is whole piece is a delight.

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  13. Wonderful artwork Liz!
    I love it! :)

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  14. Wow, Liz, you are a girl after my own heart. I dearly love to make my own decorative backgrounds. Looks like you like to too. This is beautiful.

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  15. Love the background...beautiful!

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Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment, I really appreciate it - Liz