Regency era card

This card is inspired by my love of all things Jane Austen. I'm a bit of a hoarder and have owned two pads of DCWV Dear Jane paper for awhile and only used one sheet... but one of my new year's resolutions is not be so precious with my stuff!

For this card, I tore pieces from 3 different Dear Jane sheets for the background, and also used pieces of Tim Holtz collage paper, stamped tissue paper and a scrap of lace. I covered everything with white gesso and outlined some of the scrap edges with Distress Crayons.

I love adding texture with a stencil and I used my new Tim Holtz Ornate layering stencil for this card. I added some color to the texture paste with watercolor paints.

The rose in a gold frame is from the Dear Jane stack and the sentiment is from the My Favorite Things All Heart set.

 

Here's the background before I added the rose and sentiment.

I used the following materials for the card:

Bristol smooth paper

DCWV Dear Jane paper stack

Tim Holtz collage paper - document

White tissue paper

My Favorite Things Romantic Script stamp

My Favorite Things All Heart stamp

Tim Holtz Ornate layering stencil

Tim Holtz Distress crayons

Daniel Smith watercolor in burnt sienna

Holbein watercolor in raw umber

Lace scrap

White gesso

Gel medium

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Funkie Junkie Boutique Challenge - So Delicate

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Make Your Own Background

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Let's Be On Time

Simon Says Stamp Instagram Challenge - Something New (used a new Tim Holtz stencil)