A Vintage Lady

Isn't she lovely? The vintage lady is a stamp by Magenta, which happens to be one of my all time favorite stamp companies. She was stamped with black pigment ink and fine line black embossing powder was then applied. The image has been lightly colored with pencils. I carefully cut it out with a scissors, applied 3-D double stick foam to the back and attached to the card.

The background was stamped with a crackle image using Distressed Inks by Ranger, Straw. The outer edges of the card had Distressed Ink by Ranger, Burlap, applied with a piece of Cut N' Dry foam in a swirling motion to achieve the faded misty effect. The final touch was a light sponging of Distressed Ink Black Soot to give the illusion of a burned edge.

The flourishes were stamped in Distressed Ink, Walnut. I think the flourish stamps are by Basic Grey, but could not find them on their website, so, I have no clue who made them. BUT aren't they just luscious????

Vintage Christmas

Have you every gotten a card all done,

only to have the last thing you stamp be

a BIG mistake.

Well, here is my mistake.

The Noel in red embossing powder is dreadful.

I didn't toss it, but looked for a way to salvage the card.

Here is the fix!

The Noel by Artistic Impressions was stamped and embossed

in fine line black on another piece of

Vintage Flourishes paper that I had made.

Then it was torn out, the edges were distressed and

"burned" with Ranger's Distressed Inks.

This was layered on a piece of bronze

mirror paper that has the corners rounded.

I toned down mirror paper

by sponging some brown ink on the whole

and just a touch of black lightly around the outside edge.

The inks refused to dry on the mirror card stock

so I hit it with Krylon's Workable Fixatif,

then glued it to the card base

over the ugly and very out of place red Noel.

Magic!!! another mess up saved.

Basic Stamping Tip -

Krylon Workable Fixatif is wonderful to prevent

smearing of certain color treatments, such as

chalks, mica powders, PearlEx, etc.

Simply apply the color treatment to

your project, lightly spray with the Fixatif,

let dry and THEN it is possible to add more

layers of color treatment if desired.

This allows one to add layer after layer

of color for more depth and shading.

It also prevents accidental smearing of your

artistic endeavours by the recipient.