The New Year is getting off to a good start as I have almost cleared my To Do list in a frenzy of arting. If you had peeked in my studio you might have spotted the steam coming from the top of my head!
The first piece I made was in response to Mary Green's monthly challenge, in which she gifts us a PDF file with 3 vintage images. All she asks in return is that you make a piece of work that includes all 3 of the images (or details of them). You can see this month's sheet here. Download it and play!
I used a page from a French vintage dictionary and used this as my background. To that I added the building image (also true vintage) of which I tore the edges to blend it in with the dictionary page. The ledger (image from Mary) was torn up and the edges were antiqued with a Distress Inkpad and the couple (image from Mary) were cut out from their background and applied to the one I had created. Finally I added the roses (the 3rd image from Mary) as shown.
Vintage text was found and glued on as well as a vintage postage stamp.
I'm also participating in Mary's Green Paper Collage Club this year (as you can see in the right-hand side bar of this blog) where we're receiving vintage images and tutorials from Mary twice a month. You can sign up per month or go wild and subscribe for the whole of 2011. Guess what I did!
