Over the past weekend, I played with ideas for backgrounds. Sometimes if you do the same thing all of the time, artwork gets stale. This one has a BG made from layers of dress pattern tissue which was applied with gel medium. Painted with acrylic paints in pale pink and brown while wet, then overstamped with a large BG stamp, it gave me a platform for a vintage looking ATC. The embellishments include cheescloth dyed with strong coffee, and metal snaps and scissors that were originally silver, but colored black with alchohol ink from Ranger. Old buttons from my grandma's button box and a stray piece of thread complete the sewing theme.
Date: Monday, June 14, 2010 GMT Views: 575
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Stamps: Dress Reform, dress form by Oxford Impressions
Paper: cardboard, heavy watercolor paper, dress pattern tissue
Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black, Coal Miner Black alchohol ink-Ranger
Accessories: Shell Pink dauber acrylic, Light Sienna Golden glaze acrylic paint, Golden gel medium-matte, stray buttons, snaps and a scissors charm, scraps of dyed cheese cloth, E6000 adhesive
Registered: January 17, 2008 Location: Stockbridge, GA Posts: 10384
Mon, Jun 14, 2010 @ 5:49 PM
Oh, Andi, this is great. I love everything about it. I have lots of those old buttons and stuff, and don't they make the best look on the vintage artwork? YOU DONE GOOD!
------------------------------ Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
Camille Pissarro
Registered: November 25, 2008 Location: west of St. Louis Posts: 765
Mon, Jun 14, 2010 @ 8:58 PM
This really pulls me into it to figure out what all the layers are - my favorite thing about collage. The surface items are wonderful, too, like an old-fashioned seamstress' room! A terrific ATC. kathy