Vintage Sewing Room......

.....Altered Frame
I have been playing with my new Tim Holtz Alterations Die - Sewing Room and the newTexture Fades eembossing folder Pattern and Stitches and some new -  to me - stamps Vintage Sewing Plate from Creative Expressions and  I love love love them all.  I just knew I needed the dress form as soon as I saw it, the ideas are spinning around in my head so I'm sure this won't be the last project I do with it, you will probably get fed up seeing it!!! LOL

Sooooo the first project I knew I wanted to do was alter a frame as I had bought some Viva Terra and Viva Inka Gold ages and ages ago for just this purpose,  and Try it on Tuesday challenge blog  this week the challenge is Alter a Frame with a fab prize donated by the Craft Barn, now I have meaning to play over there for a while now but time is always against me and I have only just made it this week with hours to spare !!

My frame was covered in Viva Terra and when dry I  lightly rubbed some Viva Inka Gold over the raised edges can you see the sparkle? I love the feel of this cream it's just soooooo soft.  Background paper is from Vintage Shabby Paper Stack which I thought looked like vintage wallpaper. The dress form is cut from Stampin' Up! Card Early Espresso and Crumb Cake which I ran through the embossing folder and inked over with DI tattered rose with vintage photo on the edges, cotton reels and buttons were cut from co-ordinations card stock and sanded, one is carrying pins and the others I wound with thread, edges were inked with same colours of DI. 
The flower was made from some lace I found in my sewing box and I lightly dragged  it through some worn lipstick and tattered rose DI which I had spritzed on my craft sheet and added a button. More buttons and some mini safety pins added to the frame.  The tape measure  I rolled up and tucked the roll under the dress form leaving a tail  as it unravels this I  made by stamping with archival ink and stamp from Vintage Sewing  onto twill tape from Stampin' Up!   Message is from same set.

 Thought you might like a close up of the word plaque which is soooo definitely true - in this house anyway!!
Hope you like my efforts It has turned out just as I hoped reminding me of how my sewing room  used to feel in another life before I found those little things called rubber stamps and started making inky things instead of sewing things, lol and this is another first for me - can you believe it is the first frame I have altered and I have many that I have collected from charity shops etc., so will have to do more.....

I will also be entering  the following challenges I don't usually manage to join challenges together and it wasn't my intention when I created this project but my creation seems to fit the bill on several blog sites which means I get to play at more places this week - fantastic!

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything but a card

The Stamp Man Challenge - Anything Tim

Just for Fun


Products used: Tim Holtz/Sizzix Alterations Die and Textured Fades embossing folder Pattern and stitches, Distress Inks, Paper Stash; Stampin' Up! card and buttons; Creative Expressions Stamp Plate; Viva Decor

Thanks for looking
bye for now