I had a blast getting inky today … when I saw this awesome Inspiration from the Inspired By Challenge, I knew immediately how I wanted to create my background (which I should have photographed before I covered most of it up). The technique is also perfect for the My Time to Craft Challenge to use an old book or newspaper.
I loved all of the little boxes of text, so I broke out my Vintage (circa 1943) Audel's Handy Book of Practical Electricity (all of the graphical drawings are great for guy cards) and started cutting pages into squares and rectangles & creating my collaged background.
Next I stamped the Hero Arts/Studio Calico Plano twice to pull some teal into the background like the inspiration image. After attaching to my card base, I added lots of distress ink around the edges. I also loved the little postage stamp image at the bottom left of the Inspiration Photo, so I rescued a Forever Stamp from a package I received in the mail (my sister-in-law always uses the funnest stamps).
Next I went searching for an umbrella image and found it in a discarded vintage children's book … Big Max. I used my oval cutters and then added lots more distress ink. The sketch is from Hand Stamped Sentiments … although my sentiments are actually a collection of Heidi Swapp Sentiment stickers, which had the perfect vintage feel for my design.
Here's a close-up of my collaged background … in this case, I love how the text shows through from the other side of the thin vintage paper.
I have never done any art journal work but am trying to help my 6 year old grandaughter make some pages. I can see I need to pick up some old books at garage sales or the thrift shop. She has her first page half way done…background finished and ready to start the next layer!
Yours looks great. I will save it to show her for inspiration!
WOW!! This is just stunning, love it hun. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you so much for sharing with us at My Time To Craft this week, good luck!
Hugs Shell xx
WOW!! What a card, that looks like it took some serious time and effort! Thanks so much for sharing it with us at HSS!
I love this! I love that background! Thanks for playing at Inspired By.
LOVE the clever stylings of both of these cards! Excellent use of supplies and distress ink! 🙂
I LOVE your collage of vintage pages! What a fantastic one of a kind gift for someone. Lovely details, and I like that you pulled it all together with the blue accents. Fan…..tastic! Thanks for playing with the sketch at HSS! Erika
this is one of my all time favorites. i love the vintage book stuff.