A Vintage Style Journal page

 

Good Friday Morning Ladies,  

Well this week has flown,  thanks to the Bank Holiday.   

Karen I hope that you and Alan have an amazing time in London,  your meal looked incredible,  I hope your show was equally as amazing.  You know that your Afternoon Tea at the Ritz will be fantastic.  Such a huge celebration deserves a fabulous Celebration.   Happy Anniversary to you both 🍾🥂

Today's reminder is a perfect one for you Karen, a 50 year Marriage is indeed something to be proud of these days.  

We all have achievements that we should be proud of,  it definitely is Ok to feel proud !  

I made today's journal page a couple of weeks ago, following a Vicky P YouTube tutorial,   amazingly I had pretty much everything that was needed,  it felt good using some of the bits as I have had them in my stash for many years! 

I started by spritzing the background with Shabby Shutters & Speckled Egg Distress Oxide inks. I then used Ground Espresso Distress ink through a mask.  Next came background stamping with a script style font stamp.  I added some vintage photo splatters too, however they didn't show up so I used Black ink splatters too. 

Some stencilling with Black Tecture paste and some white splatters finish the background,  along with black inking around the page. 

For added texture I added some Gauze where the focal element is going to be. 

The focal element is based on these little folders from TH Specimen Die set,  I used Kraft card and inked with Vintage Photo, I added acetate and closed with double sided tape. 

I added some ephemera inside the little folders and popped a Butterfly from Tim Holtz Botanical ephemera and then added the little specimen tags and some very old sentiment chips,   I added extra scribbles here and there and a few more splatters to finish the page. 

I really like how this one turned out.  

I hope that you all have an amazing day,  

Love & hugs to all of you,  

Sandra xxx