Crafty Adventurista: May DT Project 1 For Country View Crafts and Challenges

Hello and a very happy Spring Bank Holiday to you...

It’s my turn to present my first DT project for Country View Crafts for May with the theme: Weathered, Aged, Distressed, Time Worn. It can be any or all of these.

The challenge is open worldwide and you can join the group here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/164920247712393

You must use products from brands that Country View Crafts stocks. You can enter 5 times each month with different projects and one winner will be selected randomly. There’s an amazing prize to win.

So, what could I do for this theme?

I thought I’d work in my altered book to bring you a Weathered, Aged, Distressed, Time Worn page.

To start, I prepped the page with white gesso just to give it some grip.

I randomly painted Tim Holtz Distress Paints in Speckled Egg and Weathered Wood over this and then painted over Distress Crackle Paste and left to dry to work its magic.

Once my crackle was dry, I realised it had pulled the paper inwards, contracting as it dried, and silly me, I hadn't glued this page to the one behind to give it some substance, so I did it at this point, accidentally tearing off a portion of the bottom as I was 'pulling' the paper to fit. I glued it back on and I kind of like the effect it has of a broken wall.

I then rubbed over a Hickory Smoke Distress Crayon and blended into the cracks with a wet brush, finish off by rubbing over with my finger too.

I stamped parts of the page with Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Components Tattered Sparrow over the background in Jet Black Archival Ink pad by lightly pressing parts of the stamp down and then I edged the page with the same inkpad.

Next, I prepped the elements that I was going to use. I found a Paper Doll from Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paper Dolls Solos and a frame from Idea-ology Baseboards Halloween 2024 that I wanted as my focal point.

I die cut some flowers from the Vault Floristry set and then smooshed them in some Distress Ink Hickory Smoke, Speckled Egg and Weathered Wood to age them somewhat. I decided my girl need a little pop of Fossilized Amber on her flowers too to tie in with the die cut flowers, so I added a little Distress Crayon on there too.