Vintage Style Card

The patterned paper and the image are from digital printable sets that I have purchased in the past from My Porch Prints on Etsy

To start I used Kraft card and cut and folded to size. I printed two different patterned sheets and an image onto matt photo paper and cut to size to fit the front of the card. Then I inked around the patterned paper with Vintage Photo Distress ink and around the edges of the image. As the image was very light I went over it lightly with distress ink in Vintage Photo. The frame is cut using a metal cutting die in a pretty design and as this was also white I coloured it with two colours of distress ink in Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain. I layered the frame to give it more strength.

On the front of the card I added  the papers, a pretty rose paper at the top and the stripe paper on the bottom and added lace where the papers met, then I glued the frame onto the front of the card and then the image on top of that.

I arranged the flowers on the frame on two of the corners and added little pearls to decorate the frame. For the greeting I stamped on white card and went over it lightly with Old Paper Distress Ink. I mounted the greeting onto a piece of white card that I inked using Vintage Photo Distress Ink and added a pearl either side to finish.

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*February Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore #72

Large mixed media tag

 The tag is 8 inches long by 51/4 inches wide. I made the tag for two separate Challenges for February 2020 on the Gecko Galz Papercrafting Challenge Group on Facebook. They are to make a project on the theme of water and the other Challenge is to make a project using any or all of these colours, aqua, teal, green, blue and gold.

To start I used a sheet of Lavinia Stanps Multifarious card in white that I cut to the size that I wanted and then I sprinkled Brusho Crystal Colour in purple, torquoise and ultramarine onto the card placing each colour seperately, I also used Brusho SprinkleIT in gold. Then I sprayed over the Brusho using plain water to activate the colours.

The ornate frame that is lightweight wood I coloured using Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Polish in Rich Red and Gold Treasure.

The beautiful image I purchased from the Gecko Galz on Etsy it is part of a sheet of digital images called Colorful Memaids. I cut an oval shape around the image to fit inside the frame.

The lace borders are from the Sizzix Thinlit Die set called Crochet Lace by Tim Holtz.

 I coloured both lace borders for the top and bottom of the tag with the Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Polish in Rich Red. The flowers in two different colours are from 49 and Market which I arranged around the frame. To finish I coloured some ivory pearls with an alcohol pen in yellow and placed them on the lace borders