Simon says challange - something shabby

Well, I don't usually post twice in one day but I got this finished so thought I would do it now and then it is done! The challange over at Simon says stamp is something shabby so I made this little canvas which my wife gave me a while ago and I had not got round to doing anything with. The link to their blog is on my sidebar so go have a look if you haven't already.

The canvas itself is simple. I stamped a bird onto white tissue and adhered to the canvas along with an old lace doily. Everything was distressed with green and red inks.

The flowers were a little bit more difficult! I glued old lace doilies to white tissue ( I made the mistake of cutting first, everything fell apart so learn from my mistake!) When they were dry I cut as many as I could from T Holtz Tattered Florals, I then inked them carefully with inks in greens and reds. I also cut some from grunge paper which I had covered with pearl paint, then when dry I sanded and scratched the surface and went over it with brown distress ink. The flowers were then shaped and assembled with a brad to secure them.

The butterfly was covered in gesso to get rid of most of the garish pink, not really my colour;distressed with vintage photo ink.

                                     The tags were scrunched and inked and added to the bottom.
I hope you all enjoy it. It was fun to make and I still have half a dozen vintage lace flowers to play around with.