' ' ' 'Crafty Endeavours: Age is but a number

Wednesday 5 March 2014

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,

20 comments:

  1. LOVING your Tag, beautiful colours, fab techniques and love the metal embellishments. Fab quote too :-) xxx

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  2. Love your colours. Beautiful

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  3. Love this both fir the idea and the beautiful work on it

    Thank you for joining us at Artful Times for the anything goes challenge

    Love Chrissie xx

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  4. Fab by quote. The silhouette dress form is very striking

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  5. Love the tape measure going around the edge and the quote :)
    Thank you for sharing with us at Artful Times
    Von ♥

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  6. Fabulous colours and textures, love the tape measure border, great quote too.

    Sylv xx

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  7. Super joli, j'adore le sujet et les couleurs, et ton cadre fait-main... Et bravo pour ton inspiration sur cette très belle citation aussi, pas banale!!!

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  8. Oh wow. Those crayons you used on the background are so vibrant. And of course, I loved the metal pieces. Your attention to detail is magnificent and your quote is so true, at least in my opinion.

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  9. I love the background colours and it's a good quote.

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  10. What a fun quote - love the way you linked it to size too! The colours you have used look fabulous! Chrisx

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  11. Gorgeous! great background and fab quote, thanks for visiting my blog

    MaggieH

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  12. I love it, my mother was "39" for years and years.

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  13. Super colours and love the measuring theme but oh no it would seem I am too calculating - LOL BJ

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  14. See what I mean. You are so creative! I love what you did with the background, your made stencils, and the metal embellishments too!

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  15. Lovely colours and textures. Great quote.

    Maggie

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  16. Just lovely :) Thank you for joining in at The Artistic Stamper challenge this month :) :)

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  17. Oh I love the composition...and the colors mixed it...the text is so catchy!!...

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  18. Fantastic - wonderful colors and images.

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  19. Love the quote. In fact I love the whole thing. Gorgeous colours and very interesting to read the journey you had in creating this.
    Sorry I am so late - Hugs, Neet (Artful Times) xx

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  20. Lovely incorporation of the theme into your inspiration, and the finished page is great. Love the soft colours, especially that grey script stamping - delicious! Thanks so much for playing along with us at The Artistic Stamper.
    Alison x

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