Suffragettes 100 Years

Hi Jannet here today, it is 100 years since the suffragettes won some women in the UK the right to vote. I wanted to pay tribute to these brave women with this collage picture.

In 1908 the suffragettes choose the colour scheme of purple for loyalty and dignity, white for purity, and green for hope. I used the chipboard backing from a paper pad as my canvas. I brushed  it with Gesso, to give it a better surface for painting. After diagonally applying some masking tape, I painted Olive Waistcoat to the top left. While it was still wet I pressed crumpled up copy paper onto it. This left lots of crease marks and textures.  For the purple I mixed  Wimberry Pie with a dot of Stroke Of Midnight, and painted the remaining canvas as previously.When dry I removed the tape.

I added some colour to Elsie, and made her a hat with some wide green ribbon. I also wrapped her in a little purple shawl, fastened with a ”Votes For Women” brooch.

As part of the Suffragettes sustained campaign they smashed store windows. I wanted to somehow represent  this in the picture. I decided to use a square of Memory glass and adhered some torn pieces of  plastic around it, to try and give the look of smashing glass.

I used chipboard letters to spell out 100 Years, and painted them in  Pantry White followed by crackle glaze. 

This postcard is of The Holloway Banner which has the embroidered names of eighty Suffragettes who were on hunger strike in Holloway  Prison, London. I cut out  their names and put them on my picture along with a picture which I had  cut from a card “March of the woman” by Ethel Smyth. The cards and brooch are from the Museum of London who are holding a Suffragette exhibition.

This Picture Collage is dedicated with love, and gratitude to all of those very brave Suffragettes.

Elsie

Elegant in Pearls

Morning all it's Elizabeth here and I have another new project to share using the very beautiful Elsie stamp. I started out with a plan in mind and a canvas in front of me, and as everything came together, I just didn't like it. So meet plan B, which I love.

I started out by stamping Elsie onto a piece of Perfect White Stamping Card using Potting Soil Archival ink as I didn't want the image to run if I spritzed over it. I then added text from the Tasty Textures Stamp Set and blended around the edge using Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink.

Then for some un-known reason I did everything the opposite way round to how I would normally work, by creating and adding my mats and layers at this point. These are from the gorgeous After Morris Mixed Media Paper Stack. Which I then added to a base layer on an eight inch square card, as usual I couldn't resist distressing the edges of the layers. I love these papers as the Art Deco period has always fascinated me, and I'm very luck to live in an Art Deco house.

To add to the embellishments I fussy cut the flowers and butterflies from the front cover of my Floral Fantasy Mixed Media Paper Stack which were the perfect size to mix in with flowers and pearl strings from my stash.

These papers lend themselves perfectly to the distressed shabby look, and are so on trend with the colours in fashion at the moment.

So when planA doesn't work out there's always planB...... and I still have that canvas to play with ;)

Elizabeth x

Take the Moment Card

Hello Everyone and Welcome! Ksenija is here today and I am sharing a project featuring several new products from the latest IndigoBlu release.

Again I created an encouraging card using several brand-new stamps and new English Cottage Artist's Acrylic Paints.

I commenced with stamping Elsie image down in grey archival ink to an oval die cut of rustic paper, distressing the edges with the scissors and Distress inks in Pumice Stone and Old Paper, as well as stencilling some stripes through IndigoBlu mask Texture.

I coloured Elsie's face lightly with Distress markers and moved on to the card panel creation.

I stamped Rain Droplets onto a kraft card panel with brown archival ink and applied Gee-Sso Good! randomly. When Gesso has dried completely, I stamped Anemone from Colour Me series in the upper left corner, the beautiful waves from Light and Sound Borders stamp set in the middle and the trees from Grand Tour III set with black archival ink.

To mask straight borders of the Anemone square stamp I randomly applied texture paste through Texture stencil, removed the mask and sprinkled the pattern with bright yellow embossing powder. When the paste has dried, I heated it until the embossing powder melted.

I watered down new acrylic paints in Lemon Meringue and Marshmallow, coloured the Anemone and the card panel here and there.

To finish the card I heat embossed the sentiment from Floral Fantasy in white embossing powder and cut just several words out. To assemble the card I glued the kraft panel to a rustic card base with a liquid adhesive, taped the oval with a foam tape and glued the sentiment.

I hope you enjoy this project of mine and I inspired you to mix different stamps from the latest IndigoBlu release.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

IndigoBlu Supplies used:
Elsie Stamp
Texture Stencil
Rain Droplets Stamp
Gee-Sso Good! White
Colour Me - Anemone Stamp
Light and Sound Borders Stamp Set
Grand Tour III Stamp Set
Lemon Meringue English Cottage Artist's Acrylic Paint
Marshmallow English Cottage Artist's Acrylic Paint
Floral Fantasy Stamp Set