Leafing week: vintage catwalk in a book

Hi, 
Where does Gio find all her ideas? I will always wonder. She surprises me week after week. Today, she made a beautiful altered book using the Crafty Individuals vintage ladies and of course gilding flakes.

An old little book from the thrift store can become a vintage catwalk.

I put some glue on the three sides of the book, holding together all the pages with one hand (you can use clips too)

Once dry, I drew a gothic arch and  I cut out the niche with an exacto knife.

I glued  some vintage image and text along with pieces of lace. I gessoed everything.

To colour the background, I used Spun Sugar Distress Stain and TeaDye Distress Ink. When dry, covered the sides of the book with the glue and then I applied the copper gilding flakes using a soft paintbrush.

I stamped the two ladies and other details using Jet Black StazOn and 

CI-306 - French corset and CI-324 - Refreshing cool and bright voiles then I coloured them with different Distress Inks and Zig BrusH2O Waterbrush. 

I added some pieces of lace to two stamped corsets and I glued them to two tiny metallic dress hangers.

Materials:

Copper Gilding Flakes

CI-324 - Refreshing cool and bright voiles

CI-306 - French corset

Zig BrusH2O Waterbrush: Detailer

StazOn ink Jet black

Distress inks: Worn Lipstick/TeaDye/Mustard Seed/Spun Sugar/DustyConcord

Distress Stain Spun Sugar

Claudine Hellmuth gesso

Claudine Hellmuth MultiMedium 

See you tomorrow