Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Patriotic Mantle

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I love my patriotic mantle. It’s such a change from anything I’ve ever done (due to space and permanent fixtures). I brought in the gold in the frames of the kids at the Great Salt Lake and this was accented by the vintage gold angel wings.
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I changed my mantle vignette a few times before I finally settled on a simpler vintage camera vignette.
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I added a scale for height and interest. The turquoise blue color also helped to tie in the Letter “T” and the “Liberty” sign which weren’t your typical Patriotic blue color.
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The vintage angel wings are my newest find and I love them. I can also see me using them with my angel baby’s stocking at Christmas! Love it!!
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Another item that added interest was the surveyor pole. It extends really tall and can lengthen or shorten to different lengths.
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I tried a lot of vignette’s but, they looked great for detail shots but, were too busy and distracted from the large flag and gold frames. It competed too much so I edited back down to the cameras.
 
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I did love the details but, it looked better as a whole mantle to be edited. So, alas I put my red,white and blue airmail letters back in the cubby cabinet. (LOL They look cute there too!!)
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The mantle started as a blank canvas and I kept adding until I was happy with the result but, I had planned how I wanted them hung before I hung the sign and picture frames.
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And it turned out like this….a beautiful patriotic mantle with a splash of an unexpected blue color. I love it, because that blue is all over my house….so it fits right in!!
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I love this picture of the kids, with the baby crying because it was so cute!! We sat her down and she didn’t like it and my friend snapped this photo! I love it! As soon as you picked her up, she would stop crying…love remembering that funny moment in time!
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I love my patriotic mantle, all ready for the 4th of July and Summer!
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