ATC's

No apologies for this current addiction.... it's the return of the faded layers technique that I loved doing so much for CC3C. I've repeated the light stone effect for the background of these ATC's. (I am definitely in a phase of vintage brown and neutral coloured posts at the moment!)

Over at  'A Vintage Journey' it's a 'A little touch of Tim' ATC challenge.

Once I'd got my background ready I built up the layers using the script stamp from the Mercantile set and a miniature flourish from another set of Tim's.

Next tissue tape, torn thrift shop vellum, ribbon, mini clips and film ribbon, then some Wendy Vecchi crackle paste through the bubble stencil. Finally some butterfly stamps from the sewing/haberdashery set in potting soil archival and chit chat stickers finished with gathered twigs DI.

  

Finally a close up of faded layers with bubble stencil....love it!

Hope you enjoyed this and thanks so much for stopping by.

A quick thank you post

I was thrilled to be given a pinworthy mention for my last Vintage Journey entry...'Mr Rusty' seems to have taken on a life of his own, and I am equally as thrilled that he won the Take It, Make It challenge at Craft Stamper this month. I wouldn't normally mention this as part of a post, just be over the moon and proudly display the badge on my blog but I feel it's almost rude not to acknowledge it. It's the icing on the cake of all the lovely comments left...I feel very honoured and thrilled when I have won or receive a top 3 place......I really do......and now the next post will follow shortly!

'Autumn Fashion'

Over at Crafty Individuals the challenge this month is Autumn Fashion. Looking at the stamps I have I decided to use CI306 and use the dress form for hanging my autumn fashion on. I've made a trio of tags which I am entering in the challenge.

 I stamped the vintage dress form in black and clear embossed it, then set about creating my retro fashion outfits.

I've used 2 colours of luminarte silk glazes on old book text, tissue tape and the scraps of material left over from my journal post a few weeks ago.

Stamped fabric bodice and pleated text paper skirt...lovely sheen from the silk glazes.

Fabric panelled skirt and tissue tape bodice.

Finally text paper bodice and then a ruffled tissue tape skirt. I had to use a pin to help me pleat the tape! The stamped image isn't very big, so dressing the form was quite fiddly. It reminded me of dressing paper dolls when I was little, well crafting is play time to me so it was fun! They are mounted on some Kraft tags which I dry brushed some of the silk glaze onto.
I thought I could use them as they are or as a main image on a card. As always thanks for stopping by.