K is for ...

another round of the Alpha Challenge on the Craft Barn Blog. If you want to know what this is about please hop over to their blog and learn everything about it.
This time it's the letter 'K'.

I'm also entering this into the 'Anything but a Card' challenge #19 which is a color challenge. I just discovered the page fits :-D

I decided to go for the word 'keepsake' and this is what I did for my future alphabet journal:

Here's a picture of an item I hold as a keepsake of my father who passed away way too soon (of course I have other things of him, too ;o)) at the age of 58. Of course it's ridiculous and kitschy, but my dictionary unfortnately doesn't hold the word kitsch. It's an ashtray, actually LOL
I don't even know where it comes from, probably he had it as a keepsake of something or someone too. I'll have to ask my mother.

At first I didn't know what to do with this pic. Then I wanted to make something that is reminiscent of some kind of a shrine. I covered an arc by tando creative with some inka gold indigo. Then I put on a layer of thick embossing powder and pressed a stamp by impressions obsession into it. At last I added a bit of inka gold gold.

I like the texture very much.

I added a stamp of father and daughter (?) by oxford impressions after I sprinkled on some frantage embossing enamel shabby green and some ep gold.
This is the whole page:

Again the background is a ghost print I pulled with my gelli plate. I discovered that the colours match those of the pic almost perfectly - although it's a bit pale. I added stamps by oxford impressions, hero arts, and T.H.

And here's another view of the kitschy piggy-ashtray (I just love it, probably because it's so weird):

Thanks you so much for stopping by.

Hugs, Suzanne xxx

Sorry for not commenting much lately, I'll try to catch up as soon as possible.