I fell in love with the birdcage stencil the moment I saw it. It has such a delicate and versatile presence. I am already making plans to use it in more projects. The only issue: time. Between now and the end of the year (can you believe saying that in a sentence with any legitimate meaning? Seriously. Where did the year go?) there are so many other projects to finish up. My more realistic goal: Finish up all of the projects which I have started or require some reparation and move them to the done category.
I found that as the card started to develop the outside world of branches and flowers started to take shape with the elegance of the inside world of glittery dress forms, chandeliers and bow-tied keys. Somehow the two worlds work together in delicate balance.
The dress form is a Memory box die cut and the ribbon was dyed and set with distress ink (tea dye and weathered wood).
I faintly removed sections of the background inking (distress inks: antique linen and weathered wood) by wetting one of my favourite stencils. You can only just see the script on the bottom left-hand corner in the photo below. I have said it before, and I will again, working with distress inks is so incredibly versatile. There is a phenomenal number of techniques possible just from a few ink boxes. I'm trying to convert the converted I'm sure. Just sharing my enthusiasm.
Stay tuned for my version of a winter tag swap.
Happy crafting everyone and thank you for visiting. And thank you to the anonymous friend who sent me an owl pendant. I truly love it!
Wow this a beautiful card.
ReplyDeleteYou should send Tim Holtz a link to this post.