Things Both Ancient and Modern

Hello Fellow Blog Friends

Thank you to my latest followers, I really appreciate your support and love the fact that you might be even remotely interested in my attempts at craft!  I mention Julie Short particularly,  I am unable to return the compliment as I cannot access  the network that Julie uses.

This week on Sunday Stampers (http://pinkleart.blogspot.co.uk/) which is run by the uber talented Hels Sheridan posed me with a bit of a problem.  The theme is Men/Male Themed (as a tribute to the fab four - Beatles), which in itself is not a problem because I have lots of steampunk things that would suit.  My problem is that my new Summer Edition Distress Inks landed in the bulging craft room and they are not what I would generally think of as manly colours.  So therein lies my dilema.

I have seen quite a lot of bloggers lately using Andy Wahol-esque designs so I had a light bulb moment (very few and far between in my case!) and came up with this:-

This was so much fun to do!  It is an 8" x 9" wall hanging (it was too big for a card).  I added Squeezed Lemonade to the mix and coloured the backgrounds with  Picked Rasberry, Salty Ocean and Mowed Lawn Distress Inks.   I covered twice the area that I needed for my backing mats and then stamped the images in black archival ink, cut around them, stamped again in archival on the remaining mats and then layered up the stamped images on co-ordinating coloured mats.

The stamps are from the wonderful Sam Poole's vintage inventor plate.  I stamped the words in black archival ink, cut them up, distressed the edges in black DI and added them along with the top hat which is from the absolutely fabulous Wendy Vecchi blossom bucket collection of embellishments (love them). Here is a close up pic of the hat.

The hat is very dimensional and I think it suits the Inventor with his top hat.  The hanger is from an old wall hanging that I had.  The idea was inspired by a wall hanging that my lovely blog friend Rita (http://rmgcreations.blogspot.co.uk/) did after her daughter Annie (http://curiousncraftytreasures.blogspot.co.uk/)  had given her a beautiful hanger.

And so it came together.  This is my entry, therefore, to Sunday Stampers.  I hope you will leave me a comment if you visit, as I love to read them and I always try to return the compliment except on Facebook or Pinterest as I do not subscribe to these at present.  Have a lovely rest of the day.  Crafty hugs, Anne x