My Sentiments Exactly has a beautiful vintage-inspired stamp set that features lots of romantic images including the Eiffel Tower. That stamp set provided the inspiration for this project...
I selected soft shades of ColorBox Pigment Ink and Smooch Spritz for the project to give it the vintage look I wanted. I also decided to emboss the designs to add some additional dimension, texture and shine.
The unfinished wood frame was spritzed first with Tea Party Smooch Spritz to give it a soft rosy hue, then a few touches of Mixed Berries Smooch Spritz were added to add a soft iridescence...
The background cardstock was created by first spritzing it with Carmel Latte and Gold Lame' Smooch Spritz, then stamping it with a letter stamp using Mudslide ColorBox Archival Dye Ink. The dye ink was used for the background because I wanted it to have a soft but crisp look that would give the background an aged, worn look...
The verse was made by layering a sentiment stamp over a flourish stamp and then embossing both...
The flowers needed a little touch of something, so Honey Glow Glitter was added to their centers using Glue Gloss...
A few other accents was all that was needed to finish off the collage...
This project would be a nice Valentine's Day surprise for your "amour"; all the supplies and directions you'll need are listed below...
"Paris romantique” altered project
Skill Level: moderate to advanced
SUPPLIES:
Clearsnap: ColorBox Pigment Ink: Bronze, Copper, Bronze, Black, Raw Silk, Roussillon, Chestnut, Stucco, Brown, Dune, ColorBox Archival Dye Ink: Mudslide, Smooch Spritz: Carmel Latte, Gold Lame', Mixed Berries and Tea Party, Color Catcher, Top Boss: Clear Embossing Powder, Glue Gloss and Stylus and White Blender Tips
My Sentiments: Be Mine Sentiments, Valentine's Sentiments, Amour Sentiments and Romance Sentiments
Bazzill: Kraft and Almond Cream cardstocks
Prima: flowers
Other: 4 X 6 wood frame, vintage paper rosebuds and raffia
Tools: scissors, liquid adhesive, foam dimensional dots and paper trimmer
DIRECTIONS:
PARTS
1) Place frame in Color Cather, then spritz with Tea Party Smooch Spritz, then spritz a few areas with Mixed Berries. When Smooch has dried, ink edges using Copper Pigment Ink.
2) To creat background , place a 4 X 6 piece of tan cardstock in Color Catcher, then randomly spritz with Carmel Latte and Gold Lame' Smooch Spritzes. When paper has dried, stamp cardstock with old letter stamp inked with Mudslide Archival Ink.
3) Stamp Eiffel Tower using Bronze Pigment Ink, then emboss with Clear Embossing Powder. Cut out design and ink edges using Dune Pigment Ink.
4) For verse, stamp scroll design on kraft cardtock with Raw Silk Pigment Ink, then stamp sentiment with Chestnut Pigment Ink and emboss. Tear around all edges then ink using Gold and Dune Pigment Inks.
5) For "love", stamp the design with Brown Pigment Ink, using Stylus and Blender Tip to ink the heart in the "o" with Gold Pigment Ink, and emboss. Then cut apart letters and ink edges using Stucco Pigment Ink. Ink edges using Dune Pigment Ink.
6) For "heart postage", first ink heart stamp using Stucco Pigment Ink, then use Stylus and Blender Tip to apply a bit of Brown Pigment Ink around the edges; stamp, emboss and cut out. Then ink postage stamps with Gold Pigment Ink and use Stylus and Blender Tip to apply a bit of Black Pigment Ink around the edges; stamp, emboss and cut out. Ink edges of both using Dune Pigment Ink.
7) Apply a small circle of Glue Gloss at the center of the flowers and glitter using Honey Gold glitter.
ASSEMBLY
1) Wrap and tie raffia , ending in a bow, at right side of frame.
2) Insert stamped background cardstock in frame.
3) Add a few bends to the verse and then adhere using dimensional foam dots at the upper right of background.
4) Adhere Eiffel Tower using dimensional foam dots at the right of the background, and adhering the top and bottom of the piece to the frame {just use adhesive - no DFD}
5) Adhere "love" letters at lower left of frame at slight angles.
6) Adhere heart at an angle at upper right corner of frame.
7) Use dimensional foam dots to adhere postage stamps in center of heart.
8) Adhere flowers around verse.
wow this turned out just beautiful tami. ive not used the spritz or inks other than fluid chalk.. i definetly am going to give them all a try:) thank you so much for the inspirtration!
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