Mixed Media Piece with a Vintage Theme

.... this is the current theme over on the Art 'n' Soul Flickr group set by the lovely Viv.  Our piece had to include at least two of the following items

"A vintage image (stamped or printed)

Paper collage

Some lace or ribbon or fabric

A button or other embellishment

Embossing or texture"

I managed to incorporate three of the items.

  The base is some thick cardboard packaging cut into a 4" square.  Here's what I did to it - covered it with gesso, acrylic paint, an old dressmaking pattern (adhered with matte medium) and more gesso.  I then coloured around the edges with some water soluble wax pastels.  This is what it looked like before I covered most of it up (as you do!!)

I rubber stamped the vintage image onto some white cotton and pinked around the edges (that doesn't sound right - but you know what I mean LOL - used pinking shears around the edges).  I attached the fabric to the background with a few staples and finished it off with some ribbon, ric-rac and a button.

Thanks for looking!