Hope you all had a good weekend, the weather here was sunny and warm so we took ourselves off for a long walk around a local National Trust park on Saturday afternoon.
Today I have been in the craft studio and this is one of the results, the details on how it evolved are further down.
A thin coat of white gesso was painted onto the mdf tag, once dry vintage photo and iced spruce distress oxide inks were blended on it to make a background and then water was dropped from my fingers and dried with kitchen towel (although the result of this ended up not being seen). Texture paste was used through a Sheena Douglas stencil in the top right and bottom left corners to add interest. Here is a picture of the finished background before embellishments were added.
Four small square Tim Holtz fragments were coloured using sunset orange, meadow and espresso alcohol inks, each one then had a wooden letter attached with glossy accents and given a metallic look with Pebeo vintage gold gilding wax. The wax was also used on the white frame, the white hearts and the heart on the pin. The dry texture paste was coloured using a vintage photo distress crayon.
The tickets (which were roughed at the edges and tinted with vintage photo distress ink) were from an ephemera pack by Tim Holtz along with the photo image. The key, lace, pins and metal heart were from my stash of embellishments.
Everything was then attached as shown using Pinflair glue gel and glossy accents.
Well I hope you have enjoyed this as much as I did designing it, now for a tidy up and well earned cuppa so until next time..........
Happy crafting xx
