My Guest designer post for A Vintage Journey

I was thrilled and excited when I won a challenge at A Vintage Journey, This gave

me The chance to be their guest designer and the theme is Autumn.

Find my post here :-)
http://www.vintagejourney.com/2014/09/winners-announced-today-and-guest-spot.html?m=1
 

I found a frame with a mirror in a local bric-à-brac  type shop and decided that this was going to be used for my project

Its for my daughters shop  and I thought she would love to have her children's

Photos in there too.

It's Mixed media altered art , distressed and inked into submission ! I apologise that there is a photo of the side of my gate on the mirror side, really tricky to photograph a mirror with out getting me taking the photo in it ! And the glass on the photo side reflects. 

I took the glass and mirror out of the frame to begin my painting.

This is the left side painted in Fresco pumpkin soup acrylic & then I dry brushed

Some TH picket fence in places to lift it a bit.

The part with the photo frames, I used a much loved paint i have had for years called stewart gill Byzantine.To add some distress I Did some

dry brushing with Hey Pesto fresco paint.

I used a Tim Holtz technique to add texture by using one of his stencils with embossing paste in red

and some stamping with a black pad for more interest.

i added bakers twine, a Tim metal 'family tag' & a tiny cross as my daughter is religious.

the next was fun bit, i used metal to do the painted industrial technique, but i used 

distress inks as i wanted them to be like jewel colours. see below, great i think ! these are going on the sides of the mirror frame, this is the embossing folder i used on them before the inks

                               this is a photo below of the strips before paint was added

Below i have just added some close up details of all the additions , die cut TH tattered

flowers and leaves, French flight butterflies. 

                               one of the twins, Isaac 2yrs old looking cute in a vintage frame

          Maia , the eldest at 7 below , well away from the insects as she hate them, her mother has to
spray the bedroom with special moth spray before she goes to bed each night, (furniture polish !) hee hee

    Also see above the cute TH key lock over the little fan (Dragons Lair designs)

                    Below is little Eden Rose who is the other twin and very adorable too, not bothered about  the creepy crawlies near her photo.                                         

                                                          

 

And below is Florence who is 4 and is a pickle !

i hope you like my project, thanks for looking.

and if you would now like to see the project that won the challenge origionally

the link is here

http://janna-scrappingintheattic.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/time-flies.html