Sailing Away

Hello again, I'm back today to share a card I made for our newly kicked off challenge over at Frilly and Funkie.  Cec is our host for this fortnight and she has a delightful challenge for us.  She's calling it My Steamer Trunk and we are to make a piece of artwork inspired by what comes to mind when we think of a steamer trunk - either what we pack in it or where we go with it.  

I was inspired to pull out an oldie but goodie Stampin' Up! set called World Tour that is full of travel labels, seals and other travel icons.  I stamped them in various colors of archival ink and trimmed them out.  My post card from Paris is a digital download given free by the very talented Astrid McLean.  (be sure to check out her My Freebies tab for lots of yummy vintage digital downloads).  

I mounted the images on a piece of Tim Holtz design paper, but you can't even seen the design.  And I also included a torn piece of card stock that had been run through the Tim Holtz Air Mail texture fade.  Can't see much of that either, I'm afraid, but it does give a nice bit of texture in the background.  It was sponged with Vintage Photo DI to bring out the design.  I topped it off with a flower cluster - flower an old Prima stash find, mounted on rayon seam binding bow which has been dyed with Vintage Photo Distress Stain, watered down a bit.  I added a scrap of vintage netting, burlap string bow and a vintage button.  Other vintage buttons lend a bit of feminine influence to the piece.  The sentiment is from the Tim Holtz Simple Sayings set stamped in Cobalt archival ink.  

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you wlil stop by Frilly and Funkie to see the rest of the design team's makes for our Steamer Trunk challenge.  

These products are available at The Funkie Junkie:

Ranger Archival Ink - Library Green	Ranger Archival Ink - Cobalt	Ranger Archival Ink - Vermillion	Ranger Archival Ink - Coffee	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Simple Sayings
Rayon Seam Binding	Burlap String - 12 Colors	Tim Holtz Sixxiz Texture Fades - Compass & Airmail Set