French Romance At Make My Monday

The challenge today at Make My Monday continues in France and the theme is Romance. For my final Guest DT piece I chose a beautiful vintage image from the internet and used TAP to put it onto some fabric for that aged and textural look which I love so much.

It has been a pleasure to work with the ladies at Make My Monday and a number of them have visited me for the last four weeks and offered their encouragement - thank you so much ladies!

Here's my card and I hope you like it:

The completed card with an aged, somewhat vintage feel (I hope!).

The frame was die cut from grunge board (covered with Crafty Individuals paper) as a label and an aperture was cut to take the image. The frame was embossed in a Tim folder, inked and gold paste was applied to the edges. 

For the flower, card was coloured with distress ink and sprayed with shimmer spray (you can't see this  in the picture). After die cutting, more ink was applied before shaping and layering the flower.

The image came from the internet and was printed onto TAP paper, cut to size and transferred to fabric. A light dusting of distress ink was applied.

The sentiment was computer generated using a font called French Script which I thought was rather apt! The words were printed in brown with a light shadow to achieve a vintage feel. After cutting to size, distress ink was added to complete the look.
Cotton lace was lightly inked then stitched into position before attaching the sentiment.

There are three layers under the frame. The light layer is card which was distressed and inked. The next layer was stamped in plum archival onto card coloured with antique linen with some walnut stain on the edges. The final layer was stamped using coffee archival onto card coloured with antique linen distress ink. To keep to the French theme I used the fleur de lys stamp again.
The edges of all these three layers were stitched before assembly.

Thank you for reading this post and sharing my work with me - if you like it enough to leave a comment, I will most certainly return the favour. Support from others has enabled me to continue to develop my techniques and for that I'm very grateful.