Compendium Week 11

If you're looking for a challenge that will introduce you to new techniques or get you practising some you may know already, then have a look at Linda's Studio L3 blog for details of her weekly Compendium of Curiosities Challenges taken from Tim Holtz' book. This one's called Blended Batik, and is a technique I have tried a couple of times before.

I enjoy researching family history, and using my paints and inks to produce something related to this. One of my second cousins has a beautiful photo of our great grandmother, Janet. It is on glass and in a gilt metal frame. I didn't make a very good job of photographing it, but the real thing is very beautiful, and I treasure this copy. Janet was the eleventh of twelve children and was born and brought up by the bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.

So on to my piece. The inks are Scattered Straw and Forest Moss, the stamps Darkroom Door, Studio 490 and Elusive Images, and embellishments a Tim swirly and Prima flowers.