Saturday 30 October 2010

A little birdie told me....

A little birdie told me to have some fun; so I did. I took my compendium of curiosities and began to do some of the techniques I had not got round to trying yest, I have to say that the jury is still out on some things but there are some that have just moved up into my top ten!
Here are a couple of my new favourites.
Rusted Grunge

Shabby chic- jury still out


Rusted enamel- absolute favourite !
I just love this tag. I stamped a script image over it with stazon.
I need to search for the perfect embellishment to finish it off....



Then I played a bit to create this. The background is cork, stamped with T Holtz stamp
The lace doilie came from a bootfair earlier in the year along with the old tape measure.
I used the rusted effect grunge as the background for the cage.
Everything just evolved really as I had no plan when I started......



I like the way opaque ink seems to resist the next colour distress ink and gives a lovely subtle  pattern
(I used that on the Trust label)
 


And the crackle is still a wonderful effect which I love using.
The bird was done with picket fence white crackle and vintage photo distress ink.
 

2 comments:

NormaJean said...

I saw this on Facebook with the tim holtz tag..I just had to see if you had a web site.. this piece is beautiful!!! you do beautiful work

Norma

Terry said...

Another fabulous piece! Well I am following you, because I love your art!