My darling friend Lauren sent me some ultra fun papers to use for stamping stuff. Mostly old book pages, but a few other interesting things (like comics in spanish!). Now, I don't know about anyone else, but I have *never* torn book pages before. I'm a bibliophile - can't help it. Books are to be loved and respected. I thought I might have a heart attack when I heard the first quiet rrrriiiipppp! (and it doesn't help that dh was making fun of me at the time, asking if I needed help with my book burning!)
Then I got into a whole 'nother realm of difficult. After tearing, gluing and gessoing I had a piece of neat looking paper - but no idea of what to do with it! Finally I settled on this:
which is not at all like something I would usually make! It's a bit wonky (on purpose, I swear!) and kinda busy for me - but I like it.
The Hero Arts grass stamp was inked with Ranger's archival brown color and stamped on a piece of my collage paper. I used several colors of Distress Inks to add color to the piece - but then cut most of them off when I decided to cut it into a circle. More of my collage paper was covered with an orangey-brown color of mulberry paper, then glued down with mod podge and a touch of reinker. The background card was rubbed with a gold mica magic reinker, which I also used to edge the strips. Although you can't tell from the picture, there is a lot of glimmer and shine going on!
As the final touch I added one of Tim Holtz's epoxy stickers (also glued down to collage paper) as a dangling charm from the embroidery floss.
All I can say is - this *really* stretched my comfort zone! And Lauren, you better be proud of me! :D
Thanks for dropping by!
1 comment:
awwww MANNNNNNNNNNNNNN! ok, first off i cannot believe it's taken me SO FLIPPIN' LONG to get here and see this! and of course the punishment is that i missed seeing THE MOST AWESOME CARD IN THE UNIVERSE for way too long!
where do i even start??!?! ok, WOW--you DID IT!!!!!! (& bonus ninja points for doin' it whilst mr. not-very-nice was mockin' ya!!!) (i'd've folded under peer pressure, i am sure!)
and then MEGA-WOW--it's a truly ♥BEEEAUTIFUL♥ card!!! (i'm positive my first several thousand attempts at "vintage" were emphatically NOT cool cards in any way!!!)
and then the very BEST PART is i LOVE (♥♥♥♥♥!) that you've made this a very VERY mari-style, inky, stampy, blendy card, that is absolutely *YOU* and yet incorporates the new (old) stuff so wonderfully well!
...did i already say, "WOW!!!"??!?!?! too many times... :) :) :) (ok, well, too bad!) ♥♥♥
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