Edith Blackwell Holden’s
collection of seasonal observations, poetry, and pictures of birds, plants, and
insects—which was never even considered for publication when it was
composed—had the nostalgic charm of a vanished world seven decades later. It
became a world-wide best seller. This fabulous new launch from Crafter’s
Companion encapsulates and brings to life Edith Holden’s gorgeous imagery for
us all to enjoy.
Today is the first of my 8 sneaky
peaks for the launch of this fabulous for day deal on Create and Craft TV on Monday 20th May 2013 at
8 am.
It seemed only right to
choose the month of May for my first sample, seeing as it is actually May
(already). May mean Maia’s month. Maia was an Italic goddess of Spring and know
as Fauna by the Romans.
As soon as I saw this Bonus
Paper I knew I had to use it. It is so gorgeous (and personally think it would
make the most amazing wallpaper). A few weeks ago on a visit to a Pound Store I
came across Photo Canvas copy paper so I thought I would have a go and see how
this beautiful paper would look…I waited patiently as my printer set to the
task (I printed it on the highest quality my printer would allow, which took
ages). Well I can honestly say it was worth the wait.
Once I cut the paper to size
and shape and rounded the edges I frayed the edges as I didn’t want it to look
like paper and layered onto a matt of navy pearlaised card – I chose blue as
there are gorgeous blue dragon flies on the backing paper and wanted to draw
the colour out. I have a gorgeous stamp from Kaisercraft, Periwinkle Bird which
I haven’t used so thought it would complement the backing paper perfectly. Once
stamped I coloured the birds using watercolour paints, aged the edges with Tim
Holtz Tattered Straw distress ink. The brown lace frame is available from
Crafter’s Companion, Die’sire Decorative Die – Grace Frame. I cut it out using
a piece of brown Co-ordinations card from the Vintage Collection. I sanded it
lightly with my sanding block and added some Tim Holts Walnut Stain distress
ink to the edges along with some gold ink. Using foam pads layered the stamped
bird image onto the brown lace die cut frame.
Using the Camellia large and
small Die’sire quilling die I made a flower from craft paper – 2 of the small
and 3 of the large. I used my tweezers to manipulate the petals into the
required shape. Selected a gold acorn shaped button for the centre of the
flower.
Cut some leaves from green
card stock and distress with Tim Holtz Walnut stain and using my extra large ball
tool moulded them into shape.
Selected a sentiment from
the cd which was framed in blue which co-ordinated perfectly.
In the Embellishments
section for May there is a stack of sheets of paper from a diary – they don’t
look anything fantastic when you print them out but once cut out and inked and
aged they appear more realistic. They have a printed twine giving the illusion
of keeping them together. To make them more authentic looking I actually tied
real twine round them.
To decorate the card further
I added some shop bought small delicate paper flowers (I chose peach as it
brought out the colours in the birds feathers). Vintage ribbon was wrapped
around the card and a bow made and attached. A swirl of pearls was added, along
with a few sprays of dried flowers (which kind of looks like Gypsophila). The
very small Cameo is actually an earring purchased from a very well know
retailer beginning with P.
I hope you love this card as
much as I do and would hope that Edith would approve.
Make sure you keep checking
in for more sneak previews ahead of the launch on Create and Craft TV at 8 am Monday 20th May 2013.
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