Buttons, Bows, Baubles, and Best Friends

My friend, Beth, and I had a fun day on Thursday cutting and gluing at her house. I made use of some of the vintage prints that I had photocopied last week, ones that I had mentioned in an earlier post, "Fairy Wings and Happy Things."

"Rose" started with a floral stamp on card stock, aged with distressing inks in green and brown.  Next, I glued down a tiny copy of the rose watercolor I found at an antique store in Wichita. Over that, is an even tinier color copy of a pink rose post card.

I drew scrolly designs with a gold paint pen and outlined some in black, glued down a pretty pink ribbon and then scavenged through Beth’s cache of buttons for the perfect embellishment.  To top it all off, I used a diamond glaze to cover the little pink rose post card and make it look like it is under glass.  I had never used the glaze before.  That is what makes playing with papers so much fun at a friend’s house.  You get to experiment with their store of goodies and try things you might not have at home.  But i will be getting some glaze!  I loved the results.  The word, rose, is written on a bit of vintage wallpaper and added to the ribbon.

I also used a spot of the diamond glaze on the charm attached to the soap bottle’s neck.  The label on the bottle is a copy of the Victorian children print that I added wings to.

For my other bathroom, I used a small decanter from Tuesday Morning on sale for $2.99, as a mouthwash bottle after doctoring it up with  a label made of vintage papers hand tinted with colored markers and tied up with a bow of bronze ribbon.  I thought the roses on the paper I chose were a good match to the hand painted ones on the mirror of my vanity. The small trophies are something I picked up at a flea mkt in Ottawa, KS and decided would be a useful collection to hold make up brushes and bathroom whatnots.  I don’t think I have ever earned a trophy in my life, but using these gives me the illusion that I am a winner!

"Had they believed" is another ATC using the same floral stamp as the background of "Rose" then a copy of one of the pictures I hand tinted and added wings to.  Beth also had some bronze colored stamp pads that I used along with the green and brown distressed ink for the background.  Another thing I need to buy, loved the bronze ink!  And of course, I had to delve into her button stash to find another pretty flower shaped one for this card and for the last one: "I will take pleasure."

Once again, I used the nice floral background stamp, but this time, colored it with bright markers in red, orange, and yellow, adding some of those colors to her basket of flowers too.  A little doodle around the edge of the picture in gold and silver, a title glued on, and she was done.