Vintage Journey - A Little bit French

The third challenge on The Vintage Challenge blog

is "A Little bit French"

I had to think long and hard about this one,

not because it was hard, but because I had

too many choices!!

 

I finally decided on a matchbook in browns and pinks.

Here is the front.

This is the back.

 

 This is the front of the glassine bags

 

and this is the back of them.

I made six of these mini cards to insert

into each bag and they have images on the front

and quotes on the reverse. 



 

This is the whole piece put together.

If I could have done this differently,

I would have used sturdier cardstock.

The whole thing took me about 8 hours,

with drying time at about half hour.

Materials;

Glassine bags (internet purchase)

White cardstock

Distress stains - gathered twigs/ Victorian velvet

picked raspberry

Perfect Pearls - Cappuccino/ perfect gold

Staz-on Timber Brown ink

Archival black

Hero Arts Shadow Inks in

soft sand/wet cement
CW - Harlequin Stencil

Stamp sets;

Tim Holtz/Elusive Images

Kaisercraft Quotes

Wooden Paris stamp
B Line Designs Paris duo
Typographie - unknown
 

I coloured the main body of the matchbook with

gathered twigs distress ink & then once

dry sprayed with gathered twigs

re-inker & the perfect pearls.

Mini cards were sprayed with V/Velvet

& then a quick spritz of P/Raspberry

added to the back of each.

They were lightly over-stamped with text
and V/Velvet was sponged through a
Crafters Workshop Harlequin Stencil,
prior to having the images & quotes added.

 

Hope you like it as much as I do. The shimmer is gorgeous!

Edited to add I have also entered this in the
Kraft Journal Paris or France Challenge.