Creative Expressions Thursday.

Good Morning My Lovlies

How are you all today? Feeling crafty?
Our design team stamps for this month were The Vintage dress forms and two of the new Handbag stamps each to create with.
Today I decided to use one of the dress forms and one of the verses from the set too, Plus some nifty little embellishments and here we have it.

Hope you like.

I really enjoyed making this one.

I have a step by step for you today also so I started by getting a piece of white paper around 6x6 and stamping the little measure tape and the scissors randomly with Vintage sepia archival ink.

Next I took The Tied Together Couture creations embossing folder and ran the paper through it, which took 2 times as I had to elongate the pattern, but it matches perfectly so was easy.

So to choose some colours in Distress inks.

I chose. Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge,Peeled Paint,Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain

So to blending.

You can see the pattern I discussed before on the show that I always find works for me, side, side middle with one set of colours and the same with the other set. With the darkest at the outer edge and the lightest in the centre, we finish with a very dark colour to frame and draw the eye in. Next this piece was matted onto a very thin black mat for stability.

I cut a piece of thin corrugated card and matted it onto black also. Then took a piece of paper from the Creative expressions and Teresa Collins paper pad. I chose the one that looks like Dictionary and amused myself reading all the entries until I realised I was supposed to be making the card haha.

I cut the paper to slightly bigger than my inked card and slightly smaller than the corrugated piece, distressed the edges with scissors and inked them to match the inks used on the other piece. I rolled some of the corner around my pokey tool to age it further.

So in this picture you can see I wrapped a small piece of measure tape ribbon which I slightly coloured with vintage photo just to stain it a little. I then used foam pads to lift this piece up and added it onto the paper then the corrugated section, I also gave it a slightly wonky angle so I could keep the rolled edges, I think I quite like that look.

So then I chose which dress form I wanted to use, second left and the longest verse slightly out of shot. I stamped this and the verse again with my Vintage sepia Archival ink.

So next I needed to cut out the dress form and the verse too.

Which I did with the largest of the Just rite vintage labels 3 and inked it while still in the die. I also wanted a black matt for it to sit on so I turned over my die and drew around it in white and then simply cut around it with scissors.

I mounted all the pieces on to the card on the right side mid way. I hand cut the verse into a tag shape to tuck under the edge of the main image. Then it was just a case of dressing the card.
I used some of the half Cotton reels and full cotton reels from Creative and they are so cute, I wrapped some twine around them and glued it with cosmic shimmer glue. I also used two of the metal corners and a wooden button with a clock print which I also threaded some twine onto.I found a antique gold colour scissors and used some spider webby stuff and some raffia to make the bow and put the scissors onto this with Pinflair.

Embellishments.

So Lastly you can see I made a little soft gold flower with the new die from the new Heartfelt Creations Majestic morning collection released yesterday and don't forget you have until the 15th to leave a comment on their blog  at heartfelt as I posted yesterday so you can be one of the 2 lucky people winning the whole collection worth $180 each. I also added some Little gold pearls on some of the corners. 

And the full view once again. 

I hope you enjoyed this step by step it took a very long time to blog it so you can imagine this would not be possible every day but I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. 

Have a wonderful Thursday and I will see you very soon with more to look at and enjoy.

Please leave your comments below I don't know where you all disappeared to yesterday haha.. come back....

love and hugs.

Kim 

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