This is a unique challenge blog where we are inspired by and focus on the Vintage; shabby; mixed-media; art journaling; industrial, timeworn and steampunk genres and encompass the talent, flair, expertise and ideas of many artists that we are inspired by. We welcome all types of projects - cards, journaling, assemblage, layouts, albums, atcs, altered art in fact whatever you want to share (as long as it is in good taste).

Friday 3 March 2017

ALL ABOARD - HAPPY BIRTHDAY AVJ

Wow can you believe we have been travelling our vintage journey now for three years and today sees us celebrate our 3rd birthday, I can't believe it's been so long and yet the time has flown past so quickly. We have an amazing band of Creative Guides some of whom have been on the long haul voyage having signed up at the very beginning and others who have stepped aboard at different destinations along the way but each and every one brings something new and unique to the crew who travel this expedition together. There are times when we all like to stop a while at a destination to go sight seeing or take a detour but we catch up later to join in again which is why you won't see every Guide on each of our monthly stops but they are still around to advise, support or show the way as part of the well oiled machinery that keeps these challenges, guest posts and destination inspiration stops going.  We rely on each other to bring fresh ideas and skills to constantly improve and expand our projects and enable us to continue travelling and exploring new routes so we have recruited two new guides to join us and to lead some of the trips we take you on, I think you'll love seeing them both here on A Vintage Journey sharing their unique styles, techniques and ideas.

Welcome Autumn


and Welcome Sara - Emily

It's wonderful to have you both with us sharing your amazing talents and I know you will be enjoying the journey in a completely different way now as you both have been very staunch supporters of the challenges. Welcome Aboard. 
If you would like to know more about these two and any of the Creative Guides we have a dedicated page and you can find the link in the sidebar.

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Now onto our birthday challenge which we have called 

ALL ABOARD


This is where you choose what you want to step aboard with and although we still need to see you working with the styles and genres listed in the banner at the top of the page you can choose whether you share a card, some altered art, a journal page, a painting, in fact whatever you fancy, but with no theme to follow. Let's have some fun, share our current creations and enjoy the informal feel of our birthday celebrations!

So let's take a peek at the amazing inspiration and creative updates the wonderful Creative Guides are supplying for your pleasure, motivation, excitement and interest.

Brenda
Something completely different from me today, exploring abstract mixed media. I am wanting to experiment and play more with this style but I know I have got lots to learn and develop but that's what art is all about right? So I'm 'All Aboard' for a new artistic journey.


I'm celebrating this milestone in our Vintage Journey with some Tiny Greenhouses (yes, I know they're really tiny green houses, but I like the play on words).  They're full of birthday references so do come over to Words and Pictures to discover all the details.


As we celebrate our Third Anniversary, I created this very large (10" x 5.1/2") tag as a homage to our leader Brenda's wonderful collage style, using one of the new Tim Holtz Etcetera tags.  If you would like to see more detail please visit my blog HERE.


We are already planning our summer cruise in our yacht Mrs Muir and so the sea is very much on my mind at the moment and so I was drawn to altering this Tando Dinghy Kit for Brenda's birthday challenge. I had lots of fun weathering the greyboard and rusting the embellishments, however, the results were not always what I was expecting! Do please join me over on Live The Dream for more details.  (PS I am pleased to say that our dinghy is in much better condition!)


Can I just take a minute to tell you how excited I am to be posting my first post here as a Creative Guide?! To celebrate our third anniversary, I created a grungy vintage card that expresses my delight in finding A Vintage Journey three years ago. It is truly 'love found'! I hope you'll visit my blog to see how I made my inky background and how I aged Tim's ephemera.


For this our 51st challenge, I decided to go back mostly to our Tim inspired roots. I pulled out my Distress Paints, Sprays, Tim Holtz stamps and one of his wonderful Found Relatives cards. You can find a description of how I built this up on my blog


To celebrate our birthday I have created a layered canvas featuring new dies by Tim Holtz and stamps by Lin Brown. If you would like more details please visit Addicted to Art.


To celebrate the passing of time since A Vintage Journey began 3 years ago I have created a fully functional faux metal clock. If you've got a few minutes to spare please feel free to stop by my blog to find out more and see the clock ticking .....


I am thrilled to be a part of A Vintage Journey 3rd year creative journey anniversary. My inspiration this time around was new products in the form of the Etcetera Tags from Tim Holtz along with the new Layering Stencils, Tiny Houses Die and Distress Oxides. I love to add layers to my design and this piece has them in abundance. Pop along to my BLOG for the full list of ingredients to my homemade artwork .


Happy birthday A Vintage Journey!  To celebrate this wonderful occasion, I decided to make a Woodland Spring vignette box filled with Tim Holtz Idea-ology products old and new.  It will be a while yet before we see Spring here in British Columbia but a girl can dream!  I have some step out photos on how I created it on my blog, hope to see you there.


Autumn here, simply thrilled to be stepping on board this fabulous team of established artists.  To celebrate my arrival and the 3rd birthday of A Vintage Journey, I decided to created a project in my most comfortable medium, watercolor, with my favorite substrate, cardboard.  See how layer upon layer of torn cardboard come together in this vintage mixed media project on my blog, SewPaperPaint.


Hi everyone x So lovely to have you here for our  3rd Birthday Celebrations. 
I have altered a bottle for my Celebratory Project. To view the other side of the bottle  and for more details on products used please visit my blog HERE 
Can't wait to view your entries.  Huge Hugs xx


All Aboard!
What a great way of celebrating our third anniversary - with art and friendship. For my tag, I decided to celebrate the arrival of Spring as well with some bright - yet vintage colors. I invite you to stop by my blog to see more details.


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Oh my gosh I have been super excited to see all these amazing creations in the line up together and our fabulous Creative Guides never cease to amaze me with their incredible talent and ideas that come through each month. You have all pulled out the stops again for this one, thank you for your attention to detail and the quality of projects you always bring to the challenge station.


So now it's over to you our readers and followers to hop aboard with something for us to peruse this month. There are no restrictions on the number of times you can enter but please look at the styles in the banner to ensure you comply if you want to be entered into the draw to be a winner. And talking about winners we are very happy to have Country View Crafts aboard again supporting our challenges and offering a £20 voucher to whoever gets chosen by Random Org and who knows there might be another couple of surprise packages on offer at the end of the month and of course don't forget we always choose three that we award a Pinworthy badge to and alongside our winner we pin your work on our Pinterest boards and offer a guest spot as well. So have fun and jump aboard with us to celebrate our birthday.




We so look forward to seeing what you share for our March celebrations.

hugs Brenda and all the Creative Guides. xxx



39 comments:

  1. Love the variety of projects! Always enjoy seeing what everyone is creating.

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  2. Wow! Such fabulous and different makes from everyone- so very inspiring ladies thank you!
    Welcome Autumn and Sara Emily! I am sure will add much fun and creativity to the Journey!
    Jackie

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  3. Happy happy birthday to AVJ and big hugs to the creative guides for the amazing inspiration and to keep this going! Wishing you all many more years of craftiness. Hugs, Rupa

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  4. Welcome aboard Autumn and Sara Emily - you are such great additions to the team. I always love new challenge time and seeing the creativeness of this team. Well done ladies! S@andy xx

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  5. Happy birthday AVJ!!! Your fantastic team has completed now with two lovely and talented designers!!! Congratulations to Autumn and Sara-Emily!!! Fabulous projects again from the team!!! xx

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  6. Happy Birthday!! That 3 years just flew.... love all the projects today.

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  7. Fantastic, beautiful work by all, congrats on your 3 year Birthday too! Lovely to see Autumn and Sara as new travelling guides, such an array of talent! Ruth xx

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  8. Happy brthday AVJ!! This has been the most amazing journey and I have been so happy being part of it!! A huge welcome to Autumn and Emily, so happy to have you on the team! Amazing projects from everyone, I look forward to seeing them all in more detail!

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  9. A wonderful celebration, this is such a fabulous team to be part of, it really does not seem like three years at all! A very big welcome to our newest hugely talented members, Sara Emily and Autumn, so lovely to have you both aboard! So many beautiful projects to visit today too, looking forward to having a closer look at all of them. Anne xxx

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  10. Happy Birthday, AVJ! What a joy to see Autumn and Sara Emily join this amazing team! Thanks ladies for your inspiration.

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  11. Happy Birthday to my amazing teamies - what a celebration and what an incredible line up - love you all xxxx

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  12. Congrats to all the AVJ team, once again some fabulous ideas from you all. Xx

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  13. Yipee!!!! A very Happy Birthday to my uber talented crafty sisters and our fabulous followers xxxx these 3 years have flown in and it's wonderful to be part of the incredible journey.
    Lots of wonderful projects posted today and I look forward to catching up on the individual blogs xxxxx Congratulations xxxxxx
    Annie xxxx

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  14. Welcome Autumn and Sara Emily - so wonderful to have you on board! Happy Birthday everyone - love this blog and everyone involved xxx

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  15. Happy Birthday to AVJ and the fantastic team who make it so wonderful. The projects they all produce are always such an inspiration to us all. Thank you to all the team at AVJ. Hugs Rita xxx

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  16. Happy Birthday AVJ and Welcome Sara Emily and Autumn. Great to have you on board and I hope you enjoy the AVJ Journey as much as I do.
    Super fab projects by everyone. Looking forward to indulging in the detail and celebrating along the way .
    Have a great weekend everyone
    x

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  17. Huge welcome hugs to Autumn and Sara Emily - what a delight to have you both along for the ride. Scrolling through the post makes me, once again, so happy and proud to be on this amazing journey with you all. I'm really looking forward to hopping round for a closer look at all the wonders on offer. Happy anniversary to us!
    Alison x

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  18. Happy Birthday to A Vintage Journey and all of the Creative Guides! You all have been such a tremendous inspiration to me and to so many others! Thank you for inviting me to join in the journey! Looking forward to poking my head in at your blogs to see these amazing celebratory projects and sharing the ride with you all in the coming year!

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  19. Happy birthday to you all. I have been an excited follower of your journey since day one. 3 years...gosh where did that time go. How lovely to see Autumn and Sara Emily joining you, such talented ladies to add to you already awesome team. A great new theme...all aboard indeed. Hugs xxx

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  20. OMG what wonderfully inspired projects from the design team will need a few hours to go and look at each one in detail and congratulations on your 3rd Birthday...where has the time gone.
    MaggieH

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  21. I am thrilled beyond words to be joining this extremely talented team. What a great array of inspiration to kick off another year of creativity! Thank you for having me and for all the inspiration you've provided that got me this far. Congrats to Sara Emily too! Hugs, Autumn

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    1. Of course, congratulations to you, too, Autumn! You will be a such a perfect addition to this already amazing team! Hugs!

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  22. We are so excited to have your traveling along with us Sara Emily and Autumn! What wonderful projects you brought to the AVJ party this month! All of the team's creations are so uniquely beautiful and inspiring - I think I've been a Creative Guide on the journey for the past 2 of the 3 years - it has flown by and I have learned so much from everyone - including those who link up their projects each month! Happy B'day AVJ! Julia xx

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  23. Happy Birthday! Lots of beautiful makes by the all the Creative guides old and new today, as always.

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  24. Wishing you all a very Happy 3rd Birthday!! Congratulations on the success of AVJ! Absolutely wonderful lineup of projects today. Lovely to see Autumn and Sara Emily on board, congratulations to you both. Nicola x

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  25. joyeux anniversaire à ce blog merveilleux qui par sa fabuleuse équipe partage de superbes créativités originale
    bienvenue à Autumn & Sarah Emily pour leurs beaux projets . la galerie est magnifique à bientôt Nate

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  26. A happy and huge congrats on your celebrations! It's lovely to see both Autumn and Sara Emily here too, you lady's are the perfect fit for this challenge. This is a fabulous challenge and I hope it keeps on going a very long time as I have learnt a lot from here, thank you for that! I wish you all a marvellous month and lots of success xx

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  27. Stunning inspiration from the team and how wonderful to see Autumn and Sara Emily now Creative Guides, congrats to you both.
    Julie x

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  28. Happy anniversary Vintage Journey. All the projects are simply stunning.

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  29. Happy Anniversary to AVJ!!!

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  30. Happy birthday to the fantastic crew!

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  31. Happy birthday AVJ! Amazing and inspirational creations from my fabulous teamies as always, off to take a closer look and can't wait to see what our wonderful followers link up this month! Deb xo

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  32. Happy birthday AVJ!!! And a warm welcome to Autumn and Sara Emily, two wonderful and amazing artists in their own style. And WOW, I'm in awe today again (as all the time I hop over at the blog!) by the quality and the beauty of the samples done for the challenges or individual blog posts to inspire us... You are all uber-talented ladies!
    So sorry to not very often be part of the journey.. I really regret. I hope I will have more time one day to play with you all and read the wonderful posts offered. Thanks. Coco xxx

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    1. Thank you for those kind words, Coco! Hugs! Sara Emily

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  33. Every artist has presented master piece work. I am very much inspired. Hope to join. Good luck to all

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  34. It is wonderful journey with you all. Thanks Team AVJ for sharing your creative knowledge with us.
    Happy Birthday!!

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  35. Happy birthday! I always find the work from the team, as well as the feature articles, so inspiring. Helene

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  36. Happy Birthday from me too. Great DT samples. Angela xXx

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  37. A huge welcome to Autumn and Sara Emily! It's fantastic to have you aboard xx

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