Friday 21 November 2008

Awfully Big Art Adventure "tin" & TGIF "vintage"



Combined two challenges today. I store my embroidery threads in an old quality street tin and my little 3yr old is always opening it in search of sweeties! so it was time to alter that tin!! I stamped a stampington image on to some fabric using my new versacraft black inkpad. This has got to be the best inkpad for fabric!! I then added some images from a sewing ATC pad, overstamped papers, buttons and more stamping with a tape measure and swirly stamp around the edges. I added the word "threads" to the top right

11 comments:

Sandy said...

Wow this is truly amazing.
So great sytl of vintage. Stunning work.

Thanks Lorraine for this inspiring work to TGiF.

Rosie said...

Hope this keeps your little one out now! You've made a lovely job of altering this tin and the vintage style works so well. Hope you enjoyed it and thank you for joining in our challenge.
Love
Rosie ABAA

~*~Patty S said...

Your tin is perfectly charming Lorraine! What a treasure to pass along the ages. I like nothing more than an old button tin with this and thats tucked inside...I can only imagine my delight to find a tin like yours :O)

Viola said...

Your tin looks so great, Lorraine!

Linda Vincent said...

It definitely doesn't look like a sweet tin now - its very 'arty'!!
Well done Lorraine and thanks for joining in with us.
Linda x
ABAA

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous tin.

Faye said...

Lorraine, your tin is beautiful.. Hope the altering will keep little fingers out.

Femmy said...

your tin is beautiful Lorraine!!!

Unknown said...

Fabulous work Lorraine

Chris said...

I like this! This looks like a lot of work went into it. So much to explore. Isn't it funny how we start something like this and don't realize how much it is going to encompass? I love that.

Anonymous said...

This is lovely. All the elements and images look so good together.