Bone Belle

Corinthian column with a flourish.  The Stamper’s Anonymous Classic #2 set is one of my favourite collections. Not that I need an excuse to pull this set from pile, when I saw the Vintage Journey challenge, I knew where my inspiration was going to start.

Bone Belle

Time: >2 Hour

Yield:  1 – #8 Tag

Wet Ingredients:

• Ink –Archival Jet Black, Watering Can;  Distress Antique Linen, Black Soot, Bundled Sage, Forest Moss, Iced Spruce, Old Paper, Pumice Stone, Walnut Stain, Weathered Wood
• Other –  Embossing Dabber
• Markers - Distress Antique Linen, Black Soot, Iced Spruce, Old Paper, Pumice Stone, Walnut Stain, Weathered Wood
• Paint –Distress Bundled Sage, Forest Moss
• Stain – Distress Bundled Sage, Forest Moss, Walnut Stain

Dry Ingredients:

• 1 – #8 Manila Tag
• Cardstock – Manila Paper, Water Colour Paper
• Embossing Powder – Antiquities Cement
• Hardware – Label Pull, Pen Nib, Remnant Rubs-Life Quotes, Word Band Observations
• Ribbon – Jute Twine

Tools/Equipment:

• Die – Tattered Leaves
• Stamps – Classics #2, Fabulous Flourishes, Graph & Croc, Poisonous
• Stencils – Stripes

 **a little piece of history**

 The acanthus leaf has a long funerary tradition and spiritual associations with the cycle-of-life.  In the second and third centuries these deeply veined and feathery arched leaves were often seen growing around the bases of grave markers. It was the observing of this natural phenomenon that the inspiration for the acanthus flourishes a top the Corinthian columns was born.