Sunday, 12 May 2013

Pieces of Yesterday


And finally my third Atc for the PaperPlay swap. Over at Fun with Atc's this week they have the theme of texture.  I used grunge paste through the rough diamond stencil and used lots of puff paint along the bottom edge.  Once dried and puffed I painted it firstly with stone and then vanilla fresco paints. I used French roast around the outside and used olive green treasure gold to further accent the diamonds and puff paint.


I stamped the background in timber brown stazon using a script image.  The image has been placed inside a flattened bottle top.  The lock is a Sizzix die cut coloured with pewter treasure gold and stamped with a different script in black stazon.  The words are cut from a sheet of sayings and mounted on kraft card.

I'm also entering this ATC into the Anything but a Card challenge.

***Edited***
Made it into the top 5 of ABAC challenge - see here.

18 comments:

Jenny Marples said...

Lovely Sam. Great mix of textures. Hugs, Jenny x

Marianne said...

Great textures and lovely "old" colours. xxx Marianne

Alison said...

Gorgeous!!! xxx

Deborah said...

Love the feeling of ancient ruins with this one. Fantastic!

Paula Whittaker said...

blimey you've been busy....lots of lovely work.

Helen said...

Great colours, and texture.

Carol Q said...

can't keep up with you! love the colour choice and WONderful texture.

Words and Pictures said...

Wow, this is completely gorgeous, Sam! I absolutely love the pale, delicate colours, and your grunge paste and puff paint combo gives the background real substance and life - fabulous antiquities and wording too! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Fun With ATCs.
Alison x

Lin said...

Great piece Sam love the colour!!

Anonymous said...

That's lovely. Great texture & colours.

Sue said...

Beautiful Sam, I love the stoney colours xx

downrightcrafty said...

love the texture and depth and the soft colours on this one
Hugs Kate xx

Sam & Poppy said...

Great Sam, love it!! xx

Julia S-W said...

Crumbs Sam, do you ever leave your desk?!! This is my favourite. I LOVE that background; the colours, the texture and the gilding are right up my street. Gorgeous ATC Sam.
Have a good week.
Thanks so much for joining us at Anything But A Card this time.
Juliaxxx

Claudia N. said...

An amazing background, Sam!

Love that delicate texture!
Thank you for joining us at FunwithATCs!

Hugs,
Claudia x

Gráinne said...

What a wonderful colour palette and texture and I also do like how you've finished it. Thanks for playing along with us at FwATCs. Suzanne

mark gould said...

Absolutely stunning, lovely layers of texture. the colours and details work brilliantly. thanks for joining us at fun with atc's

Dagmar said...

wow - they are absolutely fantastic!! The background is so beautiful and then the datailreiche design - great!

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