Crazy for Autumn Colour!

Hello everyone and welcome to another new month and another new challenge here at A Vintage Journey. Jennie here with you this month as your host and you will be pleased to hear that our challenge for this wonderful colourful month is

CRAZY FOR AUTUMN COLOUR

We want to see you choose a bold, colourful, autumn palette this month for your vintage; shabby; mixed media; art journalling; industrial, timeworn or steampunk project. Let's just see those wonderful autumn colours in all their glory!

We have a new sponsor this month

CALICO CRAFT PARTS

and you will find their details and those for the challenge at the bottom of this post.

And so without further ado let's see what the Creative Guides have been making with those wonderful autumn colours.

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Jennie

We have had a wonderful Autumn here in the north with flowering shrub roses, grasses and rosehips gracing the garden with their fabulous colours. I tried to replicate these colours (and the fact that the wooden fence and shed need painting!) in a Calico Craft Parts Shadow Box. Do please join me over on my blog Live the Dream to see how this all came together and a step by step for the little background painting.

Anne

Autumn is my favourite time of year, with the stunning colour of the beautiful falling leaves and the time we celebrate the harvest.  If you would like to see more, please visit my blog here.

Autumn

I went crazy playing with my mediums and a beautiful autumn palette!  My piece was inspired by the rusty colors of fall and deep moody feelings of the changing seasons.  See how I transformed this Scrabble board game on my blog, SewPaperPaint.

Deb

For our October challenge I decided to make a mixed media canvas filled with autumn leaves in all the glorious colours of fall.  I also wanted to include the touches of frost and ice that we often experience on cool October mornings here in Canada so used lots of metallic foils, embossing powders and mica sprays to represent that frosty component.  I have some step out photos on my blog on how I created it, hope you can stop by for my how to.

Alison

An autumnal tag from me, with burnt oranges and earthy browns on a misty morning... and I'm afraid there's another of my word stamps too.  I suppose I shouldn't apologise for being inspired by them - that's kind of the point!  Do come over to Words and Pictures to see the details.

Sara Emily

There's nothing better than taking a walk on a crisp, sunny autumn afternoon. I wanted my card to reflect the colors and textures of the season. You can learn how my colorful background and crunchy leaves came together on my blog-sarascloset.

S@ndy

Oh how I love the colors of Autumn with the lovely oranges, browns and greens with the golden leaves turning for the season. I hope you will stop by my blog HERE to see a little tutorial of how I made this home décor item.

Brenda

It's that time of the year when we see less and less of the sun in the northern hemisphere as Autumn delivers a blanket of wonderful rich colours and the days get shorter. I am also trying to use up some bits and pieces in my supplies box as I will be having a big move around with all my supplies soon, but at the moment let's just enjoy those gorgeous hues outside.

How can you NOT be inspired!! All those wonderful autumnal colours and fabulous projects!

And now a little more about our challenge details.

Our sponsor this month is Calico Craft Parts who make wonderful wood and MDF Shapes, Plaques and Craft Blanks. The randomly chosen winner will receive a wonderful autumnul bundle of Calico Craft Parts MDF products.

The Creative Guides will also choose their top three Pinworthies from all your entries and these projects will be pinned on our Pinterest page and the pinworthies invited to join us here at A Vintage Journey as a Guest Creative Guide. Just check out our Travelling Instructions (on the sidebar) before entering to make sure your entry qualifies.

So now you have all the details and inspiration let's see what you share with us.

Do visit again on Monday where we will have another Creative Guide will be sharing the Travel Bag contents with you in another Destinations Inspiration.

Happy crafting!

Jennie x

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Destination Inspiration - Terminal Four

Hi everyone and welcome! Well we've already had some fantastic projects from Nikki, Jennie and Sandy. Now it's Jenny here reporting for duty. So here we are, arriving at our fourth terminal for this month's Destination Inspiration and it's my turn to create with the contents of the travel bag this month.

Just as a reminder, this is what's in the suitcase:

Product - Texture or Modelling Paste

Substrate - Fabric/Burlap

Colour - Autumnal / Fall colours - orange, brown, rust

Technique - Collage

And here's the canvas I came up with...

This is an 8x8 canvas and I had to start by covering it in a piece of burlap. Anyone who has tried covering a deep sided canvas will know that the corners are the tricky bit,especially when the fabric used is thick and I decided to make mine more presentable by using Prima paper clay and an IOD mould to create bespoke trims. Painted with black gesso and dry brushed with IndigoBlu gold and coral Luscious pigment powders they worked a treat.

I adhered an old piece of Prima 6x6 paper with glue to the centre of the canvas and used Tim Holtz new Autumn Layering Stencil (in it's mini version) to add black embossing paste foliage across the top and down the sides. The Luscious pigment powders were used to colour them, this time with the addition of the bronze option, to add a gentle Fall palette and a touch of shimmer.

Now for a spot of collage - I added a die cut Ornate Frame and centre covered with more of the coordinating Prima paper and a brush of Luscious. You'll notice I repeated the stencilling/colouring with more Autumn foliage in the centre of the frame. Yet more Autumn Foliage was die cut and embossed with Tim Holtz Thinlits set and layered on top of the stencilled leaves. This really helped to bring the design to life and add a sense of depth.

The canvas was completed with the addition of some metal embellishments and crystal drops in keeping with the soft Fall look and colour palette. Here are some close up photos so you can see more of the detail;

So now you've had four creations using this month's travel bag. Make sure you come back next week to see the final Destination Inspiration from another of the Creative Guides and in the meantime there's still time for you to enter our current challenge 'Create Within a Frame'.

Have a fantastic week ahead and take care of yourselves.

Jenny xxx

Challenge 15 - The Colours of Autumn

Hello everyone this is Astrid , your host this fortnight and I would like the extend a warm welcome to you for our latest challenge. Can you believe we are up to challenge 15 now? How time flies!

Our theme these next two weeks is "The Colours of Autumn", but before giving you more details, thank you to all of you who have played in our previous challenges. We all hope you will join in the fun this time round again.
As many of you will know, our challenge runs for two weeks and then a winner will be chosen by the team. The winner will receive a £10 shopping voucher from our host Country View Crafts on-line shop. We shall also be choosing three blog badge winners, our "Pinworthies" who will be pinned to our special winners Pinterest Board.

Autumn is my favourite time of the year, I love the colours and all that this season has to offer! For this challenge you can make whatever project you like, large or small, as long as it includes the Colours of Autumn, red, oranges, yellows, greens and the numerous browns you can find everywhere around you in nature here in the Northern Hemisphere. Of course players from the Southern Hemisphere where it is now Spring can play too!!! Tim has the most fantastic Autumn Colour choices in his ever growing line of Distress products, so what are you waiting for? Just remember though, we are a Tim Holtz inspired challenge blog, so we will need to see a strong Tim influence.

If you are unfamiliar with our rules, or need to remind yourself, you can find them HERE in our 'Travelling Instructions'. Or if you are not sure of our interpretation of Tim's style, you can check HERE.

But now to the inspiration the team have provided for you:

Astrid

Autumn is my favourite time of year, I just love the gorgeous warm hues in nature and the first smells of decay, - the season of mist and mellow fruitfulness so beautifully described by John Keats. I made a mini with the Eileen Hull mini book die using all of my favourite Tim techniques and autumnal images. To see more details, please visit my blog

Nikki

I wanted to use my new layered butterfly (Bigz die and texture fade) for this project and started to play with it to make a card! In the end my 4 butterflies turned 3 dimensional and I added an ATB for them to sit on with some autumnal leaves. Lots more piccies and details over at Addicted to Art.

Chris

A mixture of stamping, embossing, die cutting and a mixture of brands too but the overriding focus is upon Tim's techniques. With misty days and autumn raindrops in mind these muted colours and imagery have been put together to show the gentler side to shabby. More details and pictures can be found HERE.

Jennie

I have used some of my favourite Distress colours (Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge and Aged Mahogany) to create this wallet from a Ranger Giant Tag. There are lots more details on my blog including how I made the flowers using the Tattered Florals Die.

Terry

Autumn Colors always bring thoughts of Thanksgiving to me and being thankful for the simpler things in life. I decided to use Tim's Distress inks and stains to create a background of falling autumn leaves and of course a few Frenzy Butterflies and keeping it simple. For more details you can visit my BLOG.

Jenny

For those of you who saw my Destination Inspiration 'Faux Rusted Metal Effects tutorial' you'll remember I promised to use the first of the backgrounds on a future project, so, true to my word, the rusted iron has become the backdrop for the autumnal offering over at my blog today.

  Annie

Like Astrid, and probably most people, I adore the Autumn and the wonderful changes that take place. The amazing variation of colours are what I have tried to recreate here and of course I just had to use  my Tim Holtz New Leaf die and embossing folder, which just happened to drop through my letterbox :-)  To view the process/techniques pop over to  my blog by clicking my name above. I hope you have as much fun with this fabulous challenge theme as I have. xx

Jools

I love Autumn my favourite time of year, such a beautiful season with an amazing array of colours, oranges, reds, rusts, browns through to pinks and purples, a bountiful time for many creatures preparing for winter, my Butterfly is preparing for hibernation in the Autumnal leaves

For more details on my project please visit my blog 

Brenda

I loved working with the autumn colours and chose to depict the wonderful time of harvest whilst at the same time imagining myself wandering through a forest with those incredible dried out leaves we find crunching underfoot. I have a step-by step on my blog today showing how I made the background and elements I used but please come back on Monday for our Destination Inspiration post where I show you how I have made the leaves.

Alison

Like the rest of the team, I adore autumnal colours in crafting.  I've used stencilling, resist techniques and crackle along with my stamping to create this tag - with a quote that's all about autumnal colours too.  Come and see more over at Words and Pictures.

Well I hope you have enjoyed the inspiration here, but before I sign off, I have a very important message to share:

We are excited to announce that we are looking for a new Creative Guide to come aboard and share our vintage journey with us. Please take a look at our invitation on the side-bar and contact us if you are interested. We have a large team compared to many challenges but that's because there is a great deal of flexibility for the Creative Guides. We are looking forward to hearing from you if you think it's right for you.

You have until 18.00 BST on Thursday  the 2nd of October to play along and we are all looking forward to seeing what you create.

We will be back on Monday with another Destination Inspiration and in the meantime

Stay inky!!

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