Hello to our A Vintage Journey travellers, Anne (Redanne) here with a brand
new challenge for August - Things With Wings!
Tim Holtz has designed the most wonderful butterfly, dragonfly and bird
stamps, dies and papers. We would like to see you create a project using
one (or more if you wish) butterfly, dragonfly or bird.
Our challenge is monthly and our very generous sponsor, Country View Crafts
offer one randomly selected winner a £20 voucher to spend in their
fabulous on-line shop.
Just a gentle reminder, we are a Tim Holtz inspired challenge and when we
choose our Top 3 we need to see Tim's influence in your project and if you
describe that influence then so much the better! You do not have to use
Tim's products and you can make any kind of project you wish, but
please do follow our rules which you can check out here.
Our wonderful Creative Guides have been busy making some
projects to inspire you to join in.
I absolutely adore Tim's Perspective Butterfly stamp and some of the latest colours of Distress Ink, Blueprint Sketch (with a wonderful lavender hue) and Cracked Pistachio and of course, the new Correspondence papers. You can see more detail over on my blog.
I have always loved the large butterfly from the Papillon Stamp Set, so I decided to make a trio of ATCs using Faded Jeans and Broken China Distress Inks and Sprays. I am just loving these little Correspondence Stamps and large Chit Chat stickers which are all just the perfect size for these little pieces of art. Please do join me on my blog if you would like to know more.
I love the elegance of wings on my craft projects be it from a Butterly, Bird or a Cherub for the perfect finishing touch. Please pop over HERE to my blog Juliz Design Post to see my tutorial and techniques used on my Butterfly.
What a wonderful challenge theme Anne has picked.......especially as I so love Tim's butterflies, dragonflies and birds dies/papers. For my project I chose to go with butterflies, applying perfect pearls to their gorgeous embossed wings. I just love the way the PP twinkles in the light.
Take care and have fun with the challenge theme xx
Anne's Things With Wings Challenge was just the thing I needed to push me to finally color up a Bird Crazy bird! I layered her to a stenciled brick Cabinet die over a burlap panel that was covered in Crackle Paste and Distress Spray Stains. Please fly over to my blog if you'd like to see more photos and details!
I took the opportunity to use Anne's great challenge theme to make my hubbie's birthday card. He loves watching and feeding the birds so Tim's new die is perfect. Find out on my blog how I used the new micro glaze to achieve the mottled effects and make him look more realistic.
A card from me today using the Butterfly Duo Bigz die, an attempted Tim technique and distress paints and inks. Hop over to Addicted to Art for more details.
Loving birds as I do I just had to use Tim's bird die for my make - that's my inspiration. You can see the details here. Chris xxx
Are you feeling inspired? We hope so and we are so looking forward to seeing all your projects for our Things With Wings challenge!
