Friday, December 23, 2011

"You are a Gift" Embellished Vintage Image

This image is taken from a photo of a mural in the restaurant of our hotel in Rome. We were surrounded with murals of a fabulous party set in the 1920's. The wonderful use of "light" used in the murals is not translated in this image, but the gowns and the paintings are fabulous. I wanted the flapper beauties to be "gazing" at the words "You are a Gift". I've couched gold bias-cut silk around half of the image. I added hand-dyed Venise lace on the other side of the image. And finished with old metal buttons and Victorian mother of pearl buttons.

2 comments:

Mosaic Magpie said...

Such yummy looking fabrics and the buttons are great!
Deb

Victoria Adams Brown said...

Deb, thank you! I'm currently "addicted" to old metal buttons!