Playing with Parisian Essence

WeDded Bliss

The background paper used is from the one of the newest paper ranges from Fancy Pants. The range is called “Little Sprout” and is related to the baby theme, but I thought it was just perfect for my vintage page. For this layout I used quite a lot of Parisian Essence, to make papers etc look more aged. I have a large music book at home but the pages are white, I scrunched the paper into a tight ball and dipped into the Parisian Essence mixture (adding hot water to a small amount of the essence creates the mixture, by using hot water to colour clings to the paper better). I un-scrunched the ball and soaked in the essence water pulled it out, with newspaper dabbed off the excess water. With the iron on the hottest setting ironed out flat the music paper, the paper still being wet creates steam and make the paper flat and better to use. It is ripped as the page was too big for my layout. The paper doily I died in a similar way but without scrunching it up and was in the water for less time to not have such a distinct aging effect. Dictionary paper was already a brown colour and didn’t need to be aged. A crocheted doily was placed in the bottom right corner; this was actually crocheted by my nana, who is in the photo.

Heres some close ups;
The Title:The title is made up of pink Thickers, and Kaiser Chipboard letters, painted in Island Sand by Jo Sonja. To add more aged affect, I used a small paintbrush and the leftover Parisian Essence mixture painted over the top of the cream and pink alphabet letters. Date was written underneath the title.

Also around the edges of the large pink flower and under the bookplate, a small piece of French Vanilla is under the bookplate and stood out so I changed it and added a little bit more brown colour. With the bookplate I used sandpaper and rubbed back parts of it to age it along with the gold brads holding it down.

A piece from the dictionary, with the definition of wedding etc was ripped out and inked. A piece of lace tied around a pin was glued down on the ripped out section of the dictionary.

Vintage ribbons and laces were also used.