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.

Home Sweet Home

The challenge this week at Take A Word  is 'Tattered'.

I had visions of an old stately home, that was beyond it's best, with  vestiges of former grandeur still visible but now on the tattered side.  I set about trying to recreate my vision in mixed media.

Home Sweet Home

The face image is from Stampers Anonymous coloured with Inktensils and Promarkers, with a light crackle applied.  The coloured 'fabric' is Claudine Hellmuth sticky backed canvas rubbed and stamped with various Distress Inks before spraying with water. Blue distressed paper was stamped with a french blue chandelier and clear embossed before being layered onto silver mirri card, to give the sense of a mirror reflecting into the room.

Back ground card stock was clear embossed before applying a weak wash of Tattered Rose distress ink and drying, then re-dipping.

The lace was white but dyed with Walnut stain distress ink and then quickly rinsed in clear water to fade it.