I know that Christmas is now a distant memory but it is still winter and I love the Found Relative portrait of the boy with skates, so I have used him in my piece for S@ndy's wonderful challenge at
A Vintage Journey - Use a Portrait.
The piece is quite dimensional, I wanted to create a proper frame that would stand up. I used Tim Holtz's Pocket Watch Frame die for the base and cut several more but adding the Sized Circle die to the middle so that it created an actual frame that I could glue to the base.
The layers were stacked up, glued and I covered the whole of the frame with Gesso and then a layer of Picket Fence Crackle Paint. Once the paint was dry I sprayed the parts with Broken China Distress Spray Stain. I brushed it lightly to ensure it that the stain got into all the cracks.
The snowflake was made using Tim Holtz's new Stacked Snowflake die. These were coated with Clear Rock Candy Distress Paint. I added a gum drop which had been coloured with Alcohol Ink.
After mounting the Found Relative card I added a layer of acetate and rubbed some Christmas Remnant Rub snowflakes. I also added my favourite embellishment from Tim's last release, the fabulous Idea-ology vintage Ice Skates.
I did add lots of layers to the frame and to finish off the edge I cut a piece of card to 1/2", gave it the same treatment as the rest of the frame and (painstakingly) glued it all around the edge to give a neater finish. Tim's Easel die was a little too big for the stand so I just folded some extra thick card and made a little stand. The finishing touch was an Idea-ology snowflake which had been dabbed with Picket fence Distress Paint.
We hope you come and join us at
A Vintage Journey for this latest challenge and please do pop over and see what my talented team mates have created - you will not be disappointed!
As always, our generous sponsor,
Country View Crafts are offering a £10 Voucher to spend in their on-line shop. With all the fabulous goodies that Tim has been introducing to us this week who wouldn't want another £10 to spend!
Edited: I would like to enter this piece into the lovely Darnell's NBUS challenge which you can find
HERE. Darnell is a very talented and generous lady and is offering 10, yes 10 $25 gift vouchers in prizes for randomly selected individuals! How fabulous is that! If you have not visited Darnell's blog before, please do so, you will feel uplifted after reading her always amusing posts!
Thanks for looking and a special thank you to all of those who leave a comment, each one is much appreciated! Hugs, Anne xx
