Vintage Postcard

Hi folks,

Sorry it's been so long, I haven't been able to put my mind to crafting, but I had my name down for swap on the Art & Soul group so had to get to grips and find my mojo.

Anyway the latest altered art swap was to make a Collaged Postcard with something metal on it. This is my first attempt at one of these and knew I wanted one with a vintage feel.



I used a piece of mountboard (4x6cm) covered it in acrylic paints, then used the pva technique for a crackle effect, overstamped with a Viva Fleur de Lys stamp in Archival Sepia, distressed and embossed the edges in gold. The frame is a sizzix die again embossed in gold and the word love and fleur de lys were cut out on the cricut, covered in gold acrylic paint and heated to make the paint bubble. Added a corner and charm to fit the "metal" criteria.



The back was given a coat of Distress Stain in Antique Linen and stamped with a combination of stamps, Crafty Individual postmarks and Viva script.

I hope my swap partner likes it as much as I do.

French themed fan and a card

Hi there,

Just had to show you this wonderful creation I received in the post yesterday, it made my day I can tell you.

Over on the Art & Soul swap the last challenge was to make a french themed fan and I was the lucky recipient of Valery Anne's

Look at all the beautiful stitching


It's going to take pride of place in my work area - thank you Valery Anne.

On to a card I made the other day, I really can't seem to get going, it doesn't help that I can't get to my desk because the kids are using the computer, think I'm going to have to move it.

Anyway, here's my all time favourite Kitchen Tilda with my all time favourite papers Vintage Shabby by Tim Holtz and a piece of Magnolia's newsprint. The recipe is from LoV's new range.


Right I'm off to make a challenge card, be back soon, hopefully

Art and Soul swap - French themed fan

Two swap pieces in one morning, I have been busy haven't I although I nearly opted out of this one when I saw what it was.

Where on earth do you start with a french themed fan? I suppose that's why it's called a challenge.

The fan was made from a single blade template Viv gave us, it had to have 6 or 8 blades and each one to be 6" long. Decided on Shabby Chic look so used my favourite Tim Holtz papers appropriately named "Vintage Shabby" distressed with Victorian Velvet ink and then embossed the edges in gold. Not sure how french themed this actually is but had the idea of cameos with lace and pearls in my head.




The images were printed off from Magic Moonlight a great site for free downloads then cut out with the smallest oval nestie. The gold oval could have done to be a bit smaller to look more like a frame but never mind. The lace was sent by a good friend and finnished off with my Viva pearl pen.

Would love to know what you think so please leave me a comment.

Thanks

Time to face up to a challenge "Time Queen" named thanks to Jack

A few weeks ago a friend Bowlingbelle, Viv, invited me to join her Flickr group Art & Soul over on Yahoo. The challenge this month has been set by Viv herself and it was to make an cotton reel doll. Well being fairly new to altered art I was going to give this one a miss, however, yesterday I decided what the hell and would give it a go.

It felt like being back at primary school playing with empty toilet rolls and gluing and sticking.

She hasn't got a name yet, so if anyone has any suggestions but here is what I came up with....no laughing!





I had to use ribbon reels instead of a cotton reel so hope it's okay.

Thanks for looking