Tim Holtz week.

This week I have the honour to hostess the challenge on Wednesday Stampers . My choice of subject for the challenge is Tim Holtz my all time guru when it comes to all things distressed. I confess to being a total geek when it comes to his style and products and am in awe of the ease by which he can create such beauty out of the most grungy of items.

This love of the shabby chic probably goes back to my early days learning interior design. I just loved to take tatty old pieces of furniture and give them the shabby chic treatement but now it's mainly confind to books and canvases.

This canvas has been painted in acrylics and Rangers distress crackle paint before adding the image which has been altered in photoshop and transfered onto the fabric. I've added grungeboard coloured with distress inks of course and added a found metal butterfly. The bird cage stamp was inked onto acetate and cut out as it's not easy to stamp acurately onto a canvas.

I hope you enjoy Tim Holtz week and create some wonderful pieces of art.