Inspiration Avenue: Aging Beauty

This week's challenge at Inspiration Avenue is aged beauty as issued by Luthien, whose art I really admire for all the metal and rusty bits she uses. However, this week, I had very limited time, since I was throwing a big Thanksgiving bash and some of my company had arrived early. In fact, I am still entertaining, and even though I had this ready on Tuesday, I have scheduled it for Friday, my normal day for showing my Inspiration Avenue challenge.

When I think of aging beauties, my thoughts often go to metal and rust, two things I love to play with. 

Cleaning my work table, I got distracted and began making a small assemblage using my craft sheet as the substrate. Although it was just a bit of fun before I had to find the right bins or containers for each of the leftover pieces on the table, I decided to grab a piece of my rusty fabric, iron it, then sew it to a sheet of cardstock. That's when I got the idea of turning this bit of flotsom and jetsom into a piece of rust and white art for my color round robin tip-in book.


Can you believe all that color, including the turquoise, came from rust and rust dyeing? This tip-in will now get three hole punches and I'll add it to my Rust and White tip-in book. And to think, I put this page together in about three hours, with no forethought or hunting for embellishments. What a fun way to clean off my work table before company arrived and have a fun piece of rusty art when I was finished. I think this is one swell aging beauty.