If only I could have one of each pillow in that wonderful shop, Stef! What eye candy! Of course, I fell in love with the Paris collage one. I can just image the vintage trims, barkcloth and glass buttons the originals contain.
My DH watched me put together my collage and would look at me with the biggest smile on his face. He said, "This really is play for you, isn't it?" And girls, is that an understatement. I have so many stamps, inks and papers, I am just going to list them here.
Eiffels mustard colored one from PostModern Design on Cosmo Cricket Chicken Little paper. The middle big one is Prima Marketing Christine Renee inked with Palette Charcoal Grey and the small one from B Line Designs stamped with ColorBox raven black, those two on the backside of the CC Chicken Little paper. The Ferris Wheel is the other side of the small Eiffel stamp. It was inked with Raven Black on Basic Grey Mellow Lenient cloud paper. The famous French stamp is from SU Friendship Journey, inked with Nick Bantock Rose Madder and Heritage Seafoam. The moon is a Cherry Pie image inked with Brilliance Moonlight white on Basic Grey Infuse paper. The souvenir is an unmounted alpha from StarvingARTistamps. The Paris is from the Christine Renae set. I added the building collage from Legacy Collage papers and a snippet of Making Memories damask flocked DP. I stitched (wink,wink, Patricia) a very uneven straight stitch and added black staples to hold the pieces together until I was done, but decided to leave them. The epoxied bird brad is from K&Co and the lifesaver (Visions in Ink) stamped with Heritage lavender fields and lightly embossed, cut and popped. I mounted this onto SU Bella paper, the brown polka dot.
I hope you like my eyecandy...it was definitely some good playing going on tonight! Thanks for your comments, they are a delight to read.
Happy Weekend~~~
Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009 GMT Views: 681
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Registered: March 20, 2005 Location: Butler, PA Posts: 77633
Sat, May 09, 2009 @ 1:26 AM
As soon as I saw the cushions Stef posted, I KNEW you would pick this one - it is sooo YOU! You did a marvelous job, Darlin'! I'm so glad you have fun - me too!
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Registered: November 3, 2005 Location: Fairport Harbor, OH-IO, Lake Erie shoreline Posts: 60051
Sat, May 09, 2009 @ 3:49 AM
O.M.GOSH! Susan this is AWESOME play! When I looked at today's IC and saw the 3 pillows that Stef posted, I knew you were going to be in your glory. I too thought you'd go straight to the Paris pillow. You've made one of your best here. I LOVE IT! Goodness I loved my week in Paris. I was actually wondering if I could get copies of some of my photos and do a card, but I just don't have that time right now. But you have inspired me to give that album another look. Thank you GF. Fabulous.
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 131551
Sat, May 09, 2009 @ 5:20 AM
You see, this is why I can't do collage. Even with a nice vintage-style image to work with, my card makes me want to take it to bits and just do something simple and basic, whereas this makes me want to look at each and every detail and wonder about how the total is so much greater than the sum of the parts.
Registered: November 4, 2006 Location: Midwest Posts: 24760
Sat, May 09, 2009 @ 6:10 AM
It is play isn't it ... I stayed up late last night playing too ... I 'get it' ... when I did my IC card and all of the images came together the way I wanted ... I did my own little happy dance. I love your amazing inspired collage ... the staples are the perfect touch.