Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Vintage Valentine

My normal style is not vintage, although I greatly admire all those talented stampers who do fabulous vintage. In fact, I admire them so much I gave it a try with this Valentine themed card.

The cupid stamp (I think it's probably a very old Impression-Obsession image, simply because my first purchase of unmounted stamps was a grab bag from I-O, and this dates to about that time) looks like an old-fashioned Valentine to me, so that encouraged the effort to make it look vintage. The image is stamped in Sepia on a cream -colored snippet, and I sponged Distress Tea Dye ink around the edges.  I colored certain areas of the image with colored pencil  to give it the look of an old hand-colored post-card. In person, you can see a little better that  her skin a has pinkish glow and her wings are white. There is obviously pink on the heart, which is also embellished with some pearls.

The image is mounted on a pink snippet, which is layered over half a doily (also sponged with Tea Dye ink) and a snippet of patterned paper -- it's practically covered up, but it has script on it.

Along the edge, I put in a strip of beautiful May Art crocheted lace, and over that a sweet plaid ribbon and bow.

I would like to enter these challenges:

Crafty Sentiments -- Girly
Loves Rubberstamps #134-- No black ink
Pixie's Snippet Playground #159  -- snippets
Crafting for All Seasons #93-- ribbon, lace, and pearls
Sister Act #88  -- anything goes
Word Art Wednesday #165  Anything Goes



11 comments:

  1. This is quite a wonderful Valentine card. I hope you will be back again really soon. Thank you so much for taking time to post your lovely art with us.
    Blessings
    Carole
    Word Art Wednesday

    ReplyDelete
  2. Absolutely beautiful, Sandy! Thanks so much for sharing with us, and I hope you will join us again real soon.
    God bless you!
    Karen
    Word Art Wednesday

    ReplyDelete
  3. This is stunning! I love this image in this neutral color scheme! It does look like a vintage valentine! Thank you so much for playing along with us this week at Loves Rubberstamps! We hope you play along with us again soon!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Well I think you cracked vintage beautifully! LOVE the image you used and such a clever idea to lightly hand colour - before my time but I've seen old postcards done that way too. Just lovely!

    Hugs

    Di xx

    ReplyDelete
  5. Love your vintage Valentine! All the little touches you added to it make it wonderful.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Sweet card with a lovely image. Thanks for playing with us at Loves Rubberstamps.

    Nikki

    ReplyDelete
  7. Beautiful and perfect for this challenge. So glad you could play along with us at Loves Rubber Stamps this week!
    Good Luck, DT Dangina

    ReplyDelete
  8. This is a fabulous card, such a pretty image and colours.
    Thank you for joining us at Crafting for all Seasons.
    Pauline
    x
    I have candy on my blog if you would like to take a look - http://craftingwithcotnob.blogspot.co.uk/

    ReplyDelete
  9. Lovely pink ink choice , such a romantic card , glad you could join Loves Rubberstamps this week,
    Hugs Blankina

    ReplyDelete
  10. Oh wow, this is so beautiful. Thanks for playing with us over at Loves Rubberstamps!!!

    ReplyDelete
  11. Beautiful project! Thanks so much for sharing it with us at Crafting for all Seasons.
    Hugs
    Fiona DT x

    ReplyDelete

Thanks so much for taking the time to comment!

Stencils and diecuts

  I've had the idea for this card for a while, but I finally got around to making it this week.  I started by stenciling the stone fence...

Popular Posts