Ephemera for Sunday Stamps

 Hello and Welcome! This post is for the new color challenge over at the SUNDAY STAMPS blog. I have always appreciate vintage and antiques and ephemera. But over the past year, I have dabbled more in Ephemera in my card making. The definition of Ephemera: paper items such as tickets, posters, broadsides(advertisements) meant to be discarded but have now since become collectibles. So I have since gathered "replica" ephemera and started playing around for my papercraft. So, with that being said, I have included some pieces in my card for the new challenge at Sunday Stamps. See the beautiful moody(rich hues) colors below..

And here is my card...

Colors I have used are, Plum, Black, Craftpaper Brown & Gray. I used White as my neutral. I have included old newspaper, vintage images, advertisement tickets, floral & fauna. I corrugated the Craft Paper and rubbed white paint to soften and age. Then I splattered dark brown paint (because I didn't have black) and added gold metallic paint to the plum flower petals. I oval cut the replica newspaper and laid those first and then started layering the rest. It was very dreary here when I took the photo so I tried to capture the look and colors the best I could at the time.

Thank you so much for stopping and taking a look. I hope you will visit the other DT blogs and see how they interpreted the colors...hope to see you in the SSC Gallery. Bye for now...

Melissa