Timeless Beauty

Created for the Crazy Amigos Challenge where the theme is Colourful Vintage. I started off by tearing old book pages and attaching them to matt cardstock. I then painted over these with a thin layer of gesso. Next, I sprayed the pages with Cosmic Shimmer in Lava Red and Aqua, along with some sticky fingers spray in Buttercup. I added a little more gesso, and a little more of the sprays until I was happy with the colour, then stamped over the piece with a text stamp (due to the fact that I had covered up most of the text on the old book pages I started with). I added yet more colour and gesso, then a final coat of gold spray, so the piece is quite shimmery in places, especially in the creases of the torn paper edges. Next I added the collage images of the girl and the bird, and the whole thing was given a couple of coats of gloss lacquer spray. German scrap pen nibs, borders and a corner were coloured with alcohol inks in Stream & Denim and added to embellish. The text was computer generated and coloured with Lava red & Buttercup colourwash, then sponged around the edge with Distress ink in Broken China.