Destination Inspiration – Good Luck

Hi everyone, Nikki here, and welcome to the third of this month’s Destination Inspiration posts using our May recipe:

Product:  Any of Tim's dies with the word ‘Vintage’ in the title  

Colour:  Stormy Sky

Technique: Tissue Wrap Collage from Compendium of Curiosities  (Vol. II page 38 )

Substrate:  Cardstock

Well I did find this one a challenge! I chose to use the Vintage Valise die (as I didn't have many to choose from) and ended up with a Good Luck card.

I won’t detail out the technique as Sandy and Julia have already covered this in previous posts. I started with some white card stock and a die cut label which I painted black to contrast against the background. I also randomly painted the white card in stormy sky to remove the white. I laid over my tissue and ensured I got some good wrinkles.

Once dry I added distress paints in vintage photo and stormy sky – making the label area a different colour. I also added some black paint around the edges and smudged some pencil around the label to create a shadow.

 I cut my vintage valise and then added vintage photo distress stain to the corner pieces and handle to make them darker. I had to heat dry this as it was over a relatively non absorbent surface. I really like the effect this created, all crinkled and old looking.
 I decided I needed a little splattering over my valise so covered up the ‘label’ and used some watered down acrylic paint and a paintbrush to flick over the case.

For my letters I sprayed and then inked some card with gathered twigs and used Tim’s alphanumeric thinlets to cut out Good Luck.

Having put my valise together I decided it would be good on a card so added some paper from one of Tim’s paper stashes.

Do pop back next Monday to see what the fourth Creative Guide creates with this month's recipe.

Thanks for visiting today.

Nikki

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