June 123 Challenge

Wow it certainly was a challenge over at 123 Challenge is month!
The criteria was

June 123 Challenge

COLOUR: BROWN
WORD: CREATE
TECHNIQUE: USING TAPE - DECORATIVE/MASKING

When I think of brown I think of vintage but I didn't want to scrap an old photo, I wanted to scrap this family photo. So over  I went to photoshop for some sepia tones, out came the sand paper to rough things up a bit and a little mixed media background resulted in this!

I glued an old pattern to some cardstock and sprayed some Dark Calico Mister Huey (LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Mister Huey!!) over it. I am pretty happy with how it turned out too.

For the tape element I've used masking tape, 7Gypsies gaffer tape and also some handmade tape with book print on it. I wish I could say that was my idea but alas it wasn't! It was in fact the brain child of the uber talented Julie Fei-Fan Balzer. I just happened on a tutorial for making this tape on her blog a few days before seeing this challenge - serendipitous I feel!

I took a bit of a liberty with the word CREATE and went with 'creation'. I hope that's ok :-)!

TFL.