Image transfer ---Heritage

Its been a while since I blogged.  I have been down home with my mum and sister who were both in hospital.
Its difficult to see your loved ones suffering.  Mum has just been transferred to a nursing home and my sister to the hospice for respite, so we will see how things unfold.

Over at UKS Art Journal the prompts have continued.  I am trying to keep up but I do not have much time now.  Anyway I made these four pages a while ago when Mum got sick first, and this will cover the prompts 7&8.

Ist Page:

Photo transfer of my mum with Gel medium.( I used a print from my ink jet printer for the vintage look. did not let the medium dry before removing the backing.)

Background-painted with Distress inks:Tattered rose & worn lipatick.

Stamp: Script---hero arts.

foliage & flowers--Prima--Sticky backed canvas---inked with scattered straw & worn lipstick.

Lace stuck on with glossy ascents.

2nd Page:

Cut out gothic window with craft knife.

Background: Tattered rose,scattered straw,Archival ink sepia.
Stamps: Artemio---foliage-(crushed olive & walnut stain inks),  Stampington & Co---Arch--(white embossing powder, & walnut ink),  Nonsequitur---ground--(forest moss ink), Scrollsworks---iron fence--(black ardhival ink & brown tomboy pen),
Hero arts---script--(scattered straw ink),
door knobs---brads--papermania.

3rd Page:

 Background: Scattered straw & Tattered rose distress inks.
Outlined window with Tomboy pens-(020,723,977, N15)
Stamps: Brick--Alexstamping.com-sepia archivalink
             pillars:  Scrollsworks--stazon grey ink.
             wire mesh--scrollsworks---archival sepia ink.
             Leaves---dylusions--sepia ink

Leaves & pillars were painted with Tomboy pens(they are watersoluble which I forgot)
Used gesso to knock back the pillars and paint ran a little.  Outlined the leaves & pillars with Letreset black ink pen.  There is something missing about this page, the pillars are not grounded enough.  I will come back to it sometime!

4th Page:

Image transfer from ink jet picture using gel medium, same method as first picture.  This is a picture of my parents before they got married.
Background: Scattered straw, tattered rose, vintage photo distress inks. bottom of page is worn a bit but this gives it dimension.

 tissue tape---idea-ology-Tim Holtz--under the lace.
Stamps: Music--Papermania Urban stamps--forest moss distress ink then gessoed.
             Flourish:--Tim holtz Urban Chic---black archival ink.
Frame hand cut and embossed with Tim holts embossing folder, & inked with tattered rose distress ink.
White Lumiere paint for the white lines around frame.
Doily & lace.
Parents:  Prima stickers alaphabet.

Opening the gothic window is like looking into my Past----


and Future.......

Thank you for looking.