A Vintage Smile

Hello friends

and

Hello February!

Hope you are all well.

I've had some free me time to create today......half term has its perks!

As many of you know I love vintage and I always

try to incorporate some of my vintage finds in my work.

This started out as a plain piece of white card,

I had loads of messy fun building up lots of layers with  papers and stencilling with gesso

I never really know how it will end up.....or how it will come together.

Even when I think its finished,  I look back at the photographs that I've taken to find my OCD

kicks in and think...its missing something and have to add to it!

(and yeah......my OCD kicked in and had to add to this and re-take the shots)

I used lots of vintage papers, deco art gesso and crackle paint.

To colour I used dylusion brown ink, vintage photo distress ink, Lindy's spray (oatmeal),

Paperartsys Fresco paint (taupe)

I also used  some Tim Holtz Idea-ology and some cool images from Tim's ephemera packs  

The photo is an original, I found this one at a local auction

I have suitcases full of other peoples old photos, I always end up buying them as I think its so sad that someone's precious memories could possibly end up in a landfill.....plus I love the finish to them, they just don't develop them like they used to!

I hope you like her, I love her smile!

As always feel free to leave a comment, thank you

so much for your lovely  welcome back comments on my last post

.....its so good to be back!

Have a fabulous week!

Kaz

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