Saturday Image Bonus 303

These images are from a little latter than I usually post.  I found several of these Children's Play Mate magazine's from 1945 at the flea market a few weeks ago.  I love the colors of the images and the unique drawings.

More Beautiful Vintage Photo Postcards

Most of the vintage postcards I posted today are of children.  I just love the baby saying "Hello People".  It would be wonderful in a mixed media piece.

Saturday Image Bonus 302

This Saturday I have a group of postcards from the early 1900's.  I have been collecting postcards for years and have several hundred.  I really love the photo like ones.  You can see the detail in the clothing.

Saturday Image Bonus 301

Hi everyone!  I hope you are well.  Today I have a treat from a book filled with a over a year of Ladies World magazines from November 1888 until the end of 1889.  I picked up three year volumes of magazines from the flea market last week.  Two are Harper's Bazar and one is Ladies World.  These ads are from the November 1888 Woman's World magazine.  They will make great backgrounds for your mixed media collages.  I have posted b&w digi images of the two watches on Digital Two for Tuesday.

Patriotic Tag Using Gesso Resist Technique

In the mail last week I got some new stencils by Tim Holtz. I love these stencils. I wanted to create something special with them. Though it is not 4th of July I was inspired by the Stripe and Star stencils. So I created this tag below. Stencils are great. You can easily create patterns on surfaces using lots of different medium. Today we will be experimenting with using gesso as a resist medium. The reason I like using gesso versus white paint is that gesso has more grit to it creating more interest in the final piece.

Supply List:
Liquitex Gesso
Tim Holtz Layering Stencil; stars, stripes
Star punch or die
Distress Stain; chipped sapphire, festive berries, antiqued bronze, black soot
VersaColor; Pinecone
Patriotic vintage postcard
Various bits of vintage lace,net
Red dot ribbon
Star button or brad
The Ultimate Glue
Ranger non stick craft sheet
Foam applicator
Manila tag
Lightly moistened paper towel

Directions:
Take star stencil and apply gesso with a foam brush to half of the manila tag.

Repeat on other half of tag using the Stripe stencil. Let dry

Quickly apply Festive Berries Distress Stain to the Stripe surface of tag. Be careful not to get red on Star surface. Take a moist paper towel or craft sponge and wipe paint off the raised gesso stripes.

Apply the Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink to the Star stenciled area. Carefully remove excess from gesso area with a moist paper towel to reveal the white below. Dry.

Cut out image from copy of vintage postcard below. Cut out the number 4 with star punch or die.

Use Pinecone VersaColor cube to color edge of images and tag. Apply image to tag using The Ultimate glue.

Color the star button brad with Distress Stain in Antique Brass Gently apply a little black Soot to antique the surface.

Make a small hole at the bottom center of the card and place the star button brad in the hole.

Put red dot ribbon through the top hole of tag. Take the antique lace net and cut bits from the edge. Glue around the circle part of postcard image with The Ultimate glue.  Let dry.

Add more bits of antique lace to corners of tag. Place 4 from the postcard on tag.

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Last of the Butterflies

This is the last of the butterfly cigarette cards from the 1932 Player's Transfer Book.

Flutter Wings

More cigarette cards from the 1932 Player's Transfer Book.

Winged Creatures

More cigarette cards from the 1932 Player's Transfer Book.