'Free!!!! Vintage Ephemera! Free!!! Plus Giveaway reminder!

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and welcome,

If you want some yummy ephemera for your glue book, junk journals, art journals or scrapbooks, just right click  to Save on your computer. You have my permission to copy these photos. 

These are photos of my own ephemera that I inherited from my grandmother's hoard plus pix of  'Instant Ancestors' that I bought at a local antique store.

Permission granted by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes to copy the following pictures.

Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by - please comment - and don't forget to check out my current Giveaway!

Peace,

LuLu

'Freebie Collage for Scrapbooking, Art Journals, ATCs - plus Retreat Info!'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Greetings!

I found a sponsor for the meetup.com groups that I founded for scrapbooking and crafting.
Did not have to close down our 'Scrap-A-Holics of Chicagoland' groups, thanks to new sponsor 'HP Dance Fitness'!

FREEBIE

Freebie (vintage ephemera)
ok to use - with permission from LuLu Haynes 2014

RETREAT INFO

• 2014 Crafting and Scrapbooking Retreat - Nov 28 - 30, 2014, near Chicago, IL, USA
• 3-day weekend retreat, $50 through Nov 21, 2014. Lodging extra.
• Late Registration fee is $70 USD processing fee) after.
• Details at www.scrap-a-thon.com
• 2015 Retreat scheduled for Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2015.
• Early Bird registration for 2015 retreat coming soon!
• Mark your calendars now.

YOUR WASHI TAPE STASH?

What's your washi tape collection count/inventory to date? How do you organize/store your tape stash?

Thanks for visiting! Come back again soon!
LuLu
www.lulu-too-beaucoup.blogspot.com

Listen to Papa

"Listen to Papa and pay him respect"

original mixed-media art

2.5" x 4.25"

This is an altered antique cabinet card found in a gorgeous Victorian photo album. Fun and challenging. The card took about 8 hours - doing a little bit every night over 4 days.

This is an experiment to study altering the antique cabinet cards. Used a lot of media on this card.

Started by creating a mask of the central image - by outlining the figure with graphite pencil on tracing paper, 'fussy' cutting it out, and adhering double-sided removable tape to the back. Adhering the mask over onto the card, and then painting many layers of various acrylic colors between layers of soft gel gloss medium (Golden) and matte medium (I like Liquitex). A little tissue paper stamped with dye ink was adhered with diluted matte medium. Then I used a couple of gel pens, found objects, Stickles, embossing fluid, black chalk pencil, brads and a great Zig Painty pen in white to add lettering.

The way it turned out looks good!

What do you think of this guy? Have you ever altered cabinet cards?