2017 #7 Framed Memories {by Miriam Grazier}

2017 Topic 7: Found Objects

Sometimes we just need a nudge to recycle, but Miriam take this to the next level by using a packet of pills as the perfect frame for some vintage ancestors!

Hi everyone Miriam from Miriam's Creative Dreams here.

Lovely to be here on the PA blog tonight . I've chosen to share with you a photo frame created using 'found' objects.  

I've used some of the lovely vintage images from Ink and Dog stamps - I come back to these stamps over and over as they are so versatile.  Before I started my project I gathered some of the 'objects' that I keep thinking that I will one day have a use for them.  This included an old painkiller packet, old train tickets and old theatre tickets.

This is the front of my finished project.  I wasn't really sure how this would turn out in the end but I kept creating until I was happy with the finished project.  I really enjoyed adding layer after layer with paints and stamps.

Before adding washes of paints I added gesso to the inside and outside of the cover.  In hindsight I didn't need to do this as Fresco finish paints have great coverage and once the gesso had dried I added a layer of Chalk Fresco Finish paint.  Once this had dried I added watery layers of Caramel and Baltic Blue.  By adding water to the paint I was able to create a mixed wash of the colours which gave an old and vintage effect.

I added stamping using Man of Numbers plate 6 and Gentleman plate 4 and added classic Treasure gold around the edges and in patches over the entire project.

Images from Man of Numbers plate 6 and School Days plate 1 were stamped onto train tickets and then coloured using Blush, Caramel, Sage, French Roast and London Bus Fresco Finish paints.

Images from Buttons plate 2 and Buttons plate 4 were stamped and then washed with Baltic Blue and Caramel for the front of the frame.

I used scraps of material and lace to finish the project off.

I really like how you can't see that this started it's life as a packet for painkillers!  The Treasure Gold gives it a lovely vintage feel and the stamps are perfect for the vintage piece that I wanted to create.

I hope that you like my project - I'm sure I'm not the only person who collects things like this thinking that they might have a purpose in a later project!  I hope that you are encouraged to join in with this topic - just looking around the house and garden there are so many 'found' objects that you can create with.  Can you imagine finding a flat stone in the garden or on a walk that can be conditioned, stamped and painted.  The possibilities are endless.  

Thanks for joining me tonight.  I shall look forward to seeing what you create as part of the challenge - don't forget there is a gift voucher up for grabs!

Miriam

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Oh that treasure gold really makes the frame look like the real-deal! Haha this is brilliant! I love that such an ordinary object has been turned into something really special! noone would guess the plastic origin of this item! ~Leandra

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