In Case of Emergency… Break Glass

Hello Friends. I hope you’re doing well. Can you believe it’s been almost 10 months since Creativation?! I still have one sample to share and I think it’s perfectly themed for this year. In case of emergency… break glass!!

If you know me, you will know my love for all things apothecary and the apothecary and corked vials in the idea-ology line are completely my jam. The new urban layers released in January made me swoon and I had to use them alongside the vials.

I may sound like a broken record, but the best way to keep your favourite products in the idea-ology line is to buy them, use them and buy them again. I always try to use those products that I don’t want to see retire and so I chose a vignette tray as my base. I used vintage distress collage medium to glue the field notes and field notes snippets ephemera to the edges of the vignette tray.

Once dry, I added walnut stain distress crayon to the edges of the ephemera and rubbed in with my finger.

I took the small vignette box from the same set and lined the inside with typeset collage paper using vintage distress collage medium to glue into place. It gives the collage paper a nice sepia tint and made it translucent in places so you can see the wood peeking through.

I added some more ephemera to the back of the vignette tray so it would poke out from under the urban layer piece.

Which I added next using adhesive foam to lift away from the vignette tray slightly. I scratched and sanded the edges and blended in a little vintage photo distress ink.

I added a piece of mica sheet over the top. Thanks to Tim for the idea (and for the mica) 😉

I added more pieces from the urban layer pack and added a clock hand and clock key, both painted with candied apple distress paint and rubbed when almost dry to remove some of the paint and create a chippy paint look. I also rubbed a little into the optical lens number and added some mushroom alcohol ink to the lens glass. I tucked a type chip in, I love these, they are card but look like weathered metal and needed no alteration, so cool!

I covered some of the bottles with distress collage medium and then painted with black soot distress paint, adding labels from the field notes ephemera pack and remnant rubs. I rubbed more candied apple paint into a token from the factory tags set which I hung from the top of the vignette box with chain and a hook. I added a small piece of adhesive foam to the back of the token so it stayed in place.

Finally I added twine to the bottles and a little more walnut stain distress crayon here and there. The distress crayon open stock is ending unfortunately and will only be available in the packs of 6 so stock up on your favourite crayons and if you have walnut stain crayons you don’t use… let me know 😉

Thanks for stopping by and hope you’re having a good week and staying safe and well.

Zoe

My vignette tray hanging in Tim’s idea-ology booth at Creativation 2020!