Age is but a number

For the latest Craft Barn quote challenge I chose the word age and a fun quote perfect for women: "A woman should never be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating." by Oscar Wilde.
Along the same lines, I think a woman shouldn't be accurate about her size and this made me think about tape measures, which in turn called for more sewing inspired items!

For colour scheme I didn't have to think I just picked it from the Sprinkle of imagination challenge!

For the background I used water soluble wax crayons, then stamped with the Calligraphy mat 13 and some areas of the Small Bingo stamp, both from The Artistic Stamper. I tried several inks and settled on the Brilliance black, which turned out grey, because Versafine did not dry on the waxy surface and Archival, when it eventually dried, lost a lot of the detail. I figured that if the background stamping was grey instead of black I was using one more colour of the colour scheme and a lighter colour might even be better for the background.

I used an X-Cut die to create a stencil through which I applied texture paste coloured with black acrylic paint to create a frame. I also applied the paste for the dress form (also X-Cut die) stamping into it with the Calligraphy mat.
I tried a bit of wax crayon over the texture created on the dress form but I didn't like the effect so I changed tack and applied silver foil.

Metal die-cuts complete the page.

I am also entering the Artistic Stamper, Pan Pastel UK and Artful Times challenges.

Thanks for coming by,