Tuesday 9 August 2011

Angel Child by Alison Hall

Hello Stampers, I have an altered wooden frame to share with you today.


First of all, I mixed a smidgen of sunset orange paint into some white gesso, then painted the whole frame with it. Then I painted a coat of rock candy crackle over the front. When this was dry, I used cut n dry foam to rub vintage photo distress ink into the cracks, to highlight them. I used a slightly damp cloth to wipe the excess ink off.

I stamped the flourishes in the two opposite corners with black stazon ink, then used orange viva gold to add some pearly highlights.

Next I stamped the girl image from the Childhood Dreams plate onto some book page. I mounted this onto tattered rose & spiced marmalade distress coredinations paper, then inked the edges with vintage photo distress ink.



I embossed a piece of black soot distress coredinations paper, using a Tim Holtz texture fade, then sanded it to reveal the core. I mounted my image onto this, then inserted it into the frame.

I stamped three medium flowers from the Flower Power plate, onto tattered rose distress coredinations paper, & three onto the spiced marmalade, then cut them out & embossed them, using Tim's dotty texture fade. I cut 6 leaves out of peeled paint coredinations paper, using Tim'smini branch & leaf die. I sanded & inked all the flowers & leaves, added the stamped button centre from a freebie Artistic Stamper stamp from The Craft Stamper magazine to each of the flowers.


Finally, I arranged the flowers & leaves in opposite corners of the frame, then added the stamped words from the Childhood Dreams plate.

The Ranger Core'dinations Paper is on special offer this month on The Artistic stamper website HERE.

Thanks for looking!
Alison x

14 comments:

StampDancer said...

This is incredible!

Chris Arlington said...

Awesome creation Alison!
Hugs, Chris

shirley said...

FABBY! Love it!

Sid said...

Great frame Alison !

Helen said...

Loving the colour on the frame!

hazel said...

I like this a lot Alison - the colour is fabulous and I love how you've put all the elements together.
xxx Hazel.

Lucy Edmondson said...

This is great. you have given a lot of thought to putting all the elements together,


lucy x

Artyjen said...

Great frame....love it :)
xoxo Sioux

Gabrielle said...

Oh so purdy! Love the orange - I don't used orange enough! Fab x

Kirsten Alicia said...

That is BEAUTIFUL.

Rachelxx said...

A beautiful work of art :-)

Silvia(Barnie) said...

Such a wonderful frame, love the colors and the crackle effect.

TinaB said...

Wow!!! Just Stunning! xx

Yvonne said...

Beautiful frame Alison! Love the flowers and swirls, great background behind the angel child!
Greetings from Yvon