Wednesday 4 December 2013

A Vintage Christmas


When I met up with Lin, Helen & Emma in York, Lin handed me a bag of goodies and one of the items was part of a broom, like a witches broom.  So I cut it up and used it to cover this 4" x 6" wooden photo frame, which I painted first with fresco chocolate pudding.  I used my hot glue gun to glue it around the frame.


I coloured a piece of white card with tea dye distress ink and stamped the main TH image in saddle brown stazon.  I added a white Christmassy flower to the bottom right corner. I was going to add more items, but actually felt it didn't need it as I didn't want to cover up the broom twigs.

Our Creative Corner have a theme of a very vintage Christmas.

Arty Inklings have a theme of a crimble challenge.

20 comments:

Lin said...

It's great Sam what a fantastic way to use the twigs or whatever we call them..it looks great!!

Marianne said...

Lov this photoframe!! Great job Sam and very inventive.
xxx Marianne

Jenny Marples said...

What a clever way to use your broom! Love this idea Sam and love your entry. Thanks so much for joining us at Our Creative Corner. Jenny x

massofhair said...

Love the twig frame Sam, very cool:-)

Deborah said...

Love your broom frame - what a brilliant idea!

Claudia N. said...

Wonderful frame for the lovely stamped image, Sam! LOVE your make!

Thank you so much for sharing it with us at OurCreativeCorner!

Hugs,
Claudia x

Sandy said...

Here is my favorite Santa again - love your frame!
Sandy

chrissie said...

Brilliant idea to use the broom as a frame Sam and Santa looks wonderful in it

Love Chrissie x

Julie Lee said...

Genius, Sam! I love this! Julie Ann xx

Helen said...

Love it! I haven't used mine yet... That Santa is just gorgeous. Are you going for a world record for the number of times you can enter a challenge?!

Carol Q said...

fabulous frame Sam and a great stamp to put inside it.

jojo79 said...

Love this. I haven't seen the santa stamp before but he may have to be added to my collection.

Jo
x

Julia S-W said...

I love your idea of using the broom to decorate your frame Sam. Love the stamped image.
Juliax
Thanks for joining us at Our Creative Corner too!

Words and Pictures said...

Absolutely inspired use of the broom - I LOVE your altered frame! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Our Creative Corner.
Alison xx

Sid said...

Love your added texture, looks brill !

Cazzy said...

What an amazing use of a broom! I think you should enter the Quirky Crafts challenge because this is just perfect for the current challenge!

Cazzy - on behalf of the Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog DT.

Cazzy said...

What an amazing use of a broom! I think you should enter the Quirky Crafts challenge because this is just perfect for the current challenge!

Cazzy - on behalf of the Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog DT.

Anonymous said...

That looks wonderful!

Minxy said...

This looks AWESOME, love it xo

Laurart said...

This is gorgeous! I adore the frame - Really adds to the Christmas effect! Thanks so much for sharing with us at our Creative Corner - Love from Laura xxx

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