Wednesday 14 April 2010

Gingersnap Creations Challenge: Found Objects

The theme of the new challenge on the Gingersnap Creations Challenge blog is "found objects", and this is my entry. Why not pop over to their blog and see how the other Design Team members have tackled this theme? :)

The found object on this is the bottle cap. Stamps are by Tim Holtz, Darkroom Door, Crafty Individuals and U.N.Known :)

Colour is courtesy of distress ink pads and promarkers, stamping used Memento black, Archival black and Archival sepia.

The photobooth pics are by Darkroom Door, and were torn, sanded and inked until they looked like they had been .... er... torn, sanded and inked :)

The screws are not real ones, they just look like they are, they're actually snaps!

The French sheet is actually a rubber stamp of an old shoe bill. It was stamped with black Archival and then I tapped a Brushed Corduroy distress ink pad onto my craft sheet and spritzed very generously with water. The sheet was then laid in the puddle and dried with a heat gun. The edges of the whole thing were sanded and distressed with more Brushed Cordury.

As ever click on the image for a larger view :)

14 comments :

tea_bag said...

Loving it It has a real vintage feel, the kind of thing one might find in a box of memories someone has kept. So much to look at just, fab almax

Hels Sheridan said...

Gorgeous art, loving the vintagey look of this one..SYOS :O))

Unknown said...

Great tag. It no doubt provokes many memories.

Patsy Ingram said...

ktexasLove the tag, Dan. The colors are
absolutely perfect for the theme you used.













Love the tag, Dan. The colors are absolutely perfect for the theme and Tim's stamp looks great.

joy said...

Love the folded, sanded and grunged look you have given everything. Great job!

Jean Franks Beck said...

Love it, Dan! Great vintage feel.

Anonymous said...

Fabulous piece, Dan! It's like a story just waiting to be told!

Kim Dellow said...

Fabulous. Love the vintage look and your use of photos. Kim

Ally said...

Ooh I just love it. You're so very clever and inspirational too!

ScrappyDandyDoo said...

Love it, love it, love it :D

But hey I'm a vintage girlie so this ticks all the boxes for me LOL :D
Julie xx

TinaB said...

Brilliant Dan! Love it xx

Unknown said...

This is a beautiful vintage piece ... even better in the flesh ... and I am going to grab a coffee and have a ciggy now X

voodoo vixen said...

Very distressed and pretty too... love the bottle cap... have a few of those from when they became all the rage and have yet to find a use for even one of them!!

Glen said...

Looks like the 'real thing' - aged and vintage photos that is. *Ü* Great challenge Dan. TFS. ~Glen~

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