Destination Inspiration October Terminal 2

Hello fellow Vintage Journey travellers, Astrid here with another project to hopefully give you a bit of inspiration for your own Tim style journey.
This month we have some wonderful essential ingredients in our travel bag, - here is a list of what they are:

Product: Distress Stain Spray

Technique:Layering Stencil embossing ( from page 50 of a Compendium of Curiosities Volume III

Colour: Hickory Smoke

Substrate: Tag

I have to say, with those ingredients in my travel bag, I could not wait to get started, because they all belong to my absolute favourites.

So this is where my journey took me:

I decided to use a size #10 tag, to give me a bit more space to play on. Below are some of the stages of the journey that got me there.....

I used the Shattered stencil and Hickory Smoke and Ground Espresso following Tim's Embossed Layering Stencil technique.

Given the time of year I decided I wanted to give my tag a Halloween/Autumnal feel, so chose Dried Marigold, Persimmon and Rusty Hinge as additional colours and used both the inks and sprays to create the rest of my background, using the Crackle Layering Stencil in the other corner of my tag.

Using the sprays made for a lovely drippy droppy background, but I lost some of the details. In addition it also got a bit dark, so I added a couple more layers of background stamping with Rusty Hinge Distress Paint and Jet Black Archival, some more stencilling with the Crackle stencil and finally added some more interest using both black and white remnant rubs from the Apothecary collection.

Now the Shattered Stencil always reminds me of a spiderweb, and so I put a spider from the Remnant Rubs in the centre. The new(ish) Remnant Rubs Tool is a godsend for this, thanks so much Anne for gifting it to me!!!

Now, even though I had chosen to go with a Halloween theme, I am not really a fan of the whole skeleton, zombie and skull scene, so I decided to keep more to the Autumn Harvest side of Halloween, and created an autumnal cluster using a variety of die-cut leaves, berries, some beech nuts and of course a pumpkin.

Though I own a little pumpkin die, it was not the right size for my cluster, so I made one using three oval die-cuts, an idea I saw somewhere on Pinterest. Here is a close up:

I used the same colours of Distress Inks to colour the pumpkin, added some Rock Candy Crackle Paint and when dry added a few spritzes of Ground Espresso Distress Spray to bring out the cracks.

I created a ticket with a stamp from the Odds and Ends set, adhered it all to my background, added a bit of the Ideaology Trimming Black and Natural to the top and my tag was done.

Well, thank you for joining me for the next leg of our journey this month, hope you enjoyed my project and remember, there is still plenty of time to play along with our latest challenge, Art Journalling with Tim. Hope to see you there and don't forget to come back here next Monday, when there will be another Inspiration post for you to enjoy.

Happy travels!!

Astrid