Life in the Footlights - Tim Holtz Ideaology

 Life in the Footlights is a piece dedicated to theater life on Broadway.  I used existing pieces and new pieces of Ideaology from Tim Holtz. When looking at it straight on, it is supposed to look like the proscenium of an old theater stage, lighting up at the bottom, just as footlights would illuminate a stage from below, and with pulley wheels at the top peeking from under the top of the proscenium  archway to represent the fly system.

 Here is a closer look at the top of the archway or Proscenium. You can see the pulley wheels and rope representing the fly system that allows the stage hands to change scenery quickly. The Vignette Accent corners, Regal Adornment crown, and Sizzix 3-D Scallop were to give the stage the feel of gilded opulence.

 The sides of the proscenium archway are adorned with the smallest of the 3-D Star Border Impresslits that will be released later this year from Tim Holtz and Sizzix. The die/embossing folder combo is just like the 3-D Scallop, it cuts and 3-D embosses at the same time.  I really love this star border set!

This is another view of the pulley wheels. It also allows you to see the gilded finish. The whole vignette tray, the chipboard pieces across the top and bottom, and the Vignette Frame are all covered in Tarnished Brass Distress Paint and then wiped with Black Soot Distress Paint to give it an old, gilded theater feeling. The back and inside walls of the tray are covered in a charcoal stripe paper from the Ideaology French Industrial Paper Stash.

My inspiration for this piece consisted of this postcard of Broadway, and the delightful NEW Photo Booth photo of this lovely lady. I decided she looked like an actress and so I paired her with the postcard and then the story for the rest of the piece started to fall into place. The postcard is from the NEW Layer Remnants. Several pieces of Layer Remnants were used on this piece, as were some pieces from Ephemera Snippets.
I layered the Vignette Frame onto a large NEW Lace Baseboard Frame.

 The small bouquet and theater ticket are from the Ephemera Snippets. The flowers represented some that would be given to a cast member after a performance, and of course a theater ticket is needed to even gain admission to the show.  These sit on a Layer Remnant that is an advertisement for a photography studio, where I'm sure many actors needed to get headshots and PR photos.

I added a few more Ephemera layers at the bottom with some Clippings Stickers to fit with what I thought would be part of a broadway actor's life, like a calendar of performances, auditions and so on. A cast of characters for the play Our House sits on top of a piece of ephemera with a bunch of names.

I cut some chipboard in two sizes and painted it to match the rest of the piece before I added the Typography letters. Some small Hardware Heads adorn the corners.

I finished the bottom with two more corners and floral piece from the Vignette Accents. In order to have enough of the corners for this project you will need two packages of the Vignette Accents.

The base is the largest Vignette Base painted with Tarnished Brass Distress Paint and and wiping a little Black Soot Distress Paint over it.

I hope you enjoyed tonight's performance and invite you to return again for an encore.
Tami

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