Destination Inspiration July : Arriving at Terminal 2

Hello Everyone! Jennie here as your host welcoming you at Terminal 2.  We have some great products and techniques in our travel bag this month and just to remind you here they are:

Product : Ephemera Collage Elements

Technique : Use a Brayer

Colour : Teal or Turquoise

Substrate : Card

What a delightful collection in the bag this month! 

And this is what I was inspired to do with them.

I started with a piece of cardstock on which I brayered PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paints : Space Cadet, Captain Peacock and Snowflake. I then used a little Peacock Feathers Distress Ink to create a little texture here and there with stencils (although this doesn't really show up very well) and then used these two little stamps which are fast becoming my favourites!

I love these Tim Holtz Pocket Cards and love cutting out little bits and pieces for collage.

And these were the elements I chose to use.

These were then layered on top of my brayered card.

At this stage I would normally get the sewing machine out but to my dismay I found it was buried behind all manners of hellary so I had to resort to some faux stitching!  I also added a sentiment with some label letters.

My travel bag card!

Thank you so much for joining me today here at Terminal 2 and make sure you call along next Monday where another Creative Guide will be ready to greet you at Terminal 3.

And in the meantime I hope you have time to join in with Tracy's Monochromatic Challenge, details of which can be found on the side bar.

Jennie x

Winner and Pinworthies for Texture and Embossing Pastes

Hello everyone and thank you for joining us today for our winner and pinworthies' post for the Texture and Embossing Pastes challenge last month. So many of you rose to the challenge and thank you so much also for all the amazing projects you shared with us, there is just so much talent among our followers. But, before we reveal our winners, let's first introduce you to our amazing guest who has created a stunning project for Tracey's Monochromatic challenge.  Please welcome the lovely Laura of Vive La Vi.

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Hello, dear friends! My name is Laura, LauraVi in virtual world (VI are the first two letters of my surname), I am a Primary School teacher, I live in Milan with my husband. I am so thrilled and honoured to be here as July Guest!

I have been loving with scrapbooking and Tim Holtz art since 2011. I like the ancient look of ordinary things, the objects that tell us a story, the perfect imperfection of human creativity.

Today I am sharing an Artistic Trading Block (ATB) made for a friend of mine who moved and who likes white colour, so this month "Monochromatic" theme, chosen by Tracy, seemed perfect to my project.

On each face of the bigger block there is one letter of the word HOME. It is difficult to show the sparkling background in the photos, but clear perfect pearls did a very good job!

The little block is wrapped in thin white wire. Tim Holtz Heirloom roses are on canvas flowers on top of both blocks.

I spread gesso on each letter, then I used a large layer of Distress crackle paint clear rock candy.

I love old pictures and I think this little frame with black and white photo was right for the heart that is the O of the word HOME.

Idea-ology tissue wrap covered both blocks, then they are coated with a thin layer of gesso and, when it dried, with stencil and embossing paste or with a piece of lace and mixed media thinlits dies.

Each letter has a little embellishment coloured with gesso and picket fence paint and a sparkling gem.

Thanks for taking a look at my project and to the team of A Vintage Journey for this great opportunity.

Thank you so much, Laura - what a lovely, delicate creation, and with such great texture too.

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Next it's time for the Random Generator to select our winner, so without further ado...

That's Autumn from SewPaperPaint with her beautiful nature themed tag.  Congratulations, Autumn!  Your badge and prize will be on the way soon, and we hope you'll join us as a Guest Designer here in the coming months.

And now to our wonderful pinworthies chosen by the creative guides. I assure you it was quite a task and I wished we could have chosen you all! But here they are, in no particular order:

# 53 Crafty Cat

#32 Adriana Bolzon

#50 Suman

Great work all round ladies and congratulations. Your badges will be on their way to you shortly, along with an invitation to join us as guests here at A Vintage Journey soon.

Well that is it and thank you again to all who played along. We hope you're enjoying Tracy's Monochromatic theme this month - there are already some amazing entries, and we're looking forward to seeing lots more.

Have a super and creative month!

Astrid and the whole creative team.

Destination Inspiration - Arriving at Terminal 1

All aboard at Terminal 1!  Julia Aston here for the first stop on our July Destination Inspiration Journey!  This month we have been given the following supplies in our travel bag:

#1. Product - Ephemera/collage elements

#2.  Technique - Use a brayer

#3.  Color - Teal or turquoise

#4.  Substrate - Card

I've been a little short on time the past few weeks - so I worked on my project during many stolen minutes forgetting to have my camera available in my craft room to record my fits and starts of creation. 

I also am definitely NOT best friends with my brayer, and I didn't even try to get full coverage on any surface I used it on.

Here's what I did:

I made a puddle of Cracked Pistachio Distress Paint on my craft mat, spritzed it with water, rolled my brayer through it and then brayered over:

1. the city map background which is a piece cut from Dapper/Paperstash

2.  a pocket card

3.  a photo booth photo

4.  a palm tree cut from Tims's new Village Surf Shack Sizzix Die.

5.  Trimmings Lace

I colored some Mirrored Stars and an Heirloom Rose with Aqua Adirondack Alcohol Ink.

 I added a little color to the Photo Booth photo using  Spun Sugar and Cracked Pistachio Distress Markers.  You can see the brayered paint wash on the photo.

I made the best sand ever using Tim's recipe from his July 2014 tag - mixing Clear UTEE, Antique Linen and Black Soot Embossing Powders, Antique Linen Distress Glitter and Glossy Accents.  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this realistic looking sand! 

After you mix the ingredients - you put Glossy Accents on the surface where you want the sand - then spread the sand over it and let dry!  I also added some White Art Stones from Prima for added visual interest and dimension with the sand.

 I die cut Paradise and found using Thinlits Handwritten Vacation dies and added a Small Talk sticker that I cut in half putting half at the top of the card and half at the bottom.  I stapled a piece of Trimmings Lace onto the card base - giving the suggestion of the ocean's edge.

All the pieces are popped up on foam dots.

I hope you have enjoyed your stop at Terminal 1 today and invite you to stop by the station again next Monday to see who will be creating with the contents of our travel bag at Terminal 2!

In the meantime -  please join us in our July Challenge - Monochromatic.

There's a $25 gift certificate from Funkie Junkie Boutique to be won by a random entry!

  I'm actually going to link up this card since I just realized it fits the challenge!!

 

Paper:  Black, Kraft - Papertrey Ink, White Little Sizzles Matboard - Sizzix,  Tim Holtz Paperstash/Dapper.

Accessories:  Ranger Distress Paint Cracked Pistachio, Breyer, water spritzer, Idea-ology Small Talk, Trimmings Lace, Photo Booth, Pocket Cards, Mirrored Hearts, Heirloom Rose, Fine Tip Glue Pen - SU, Adirondack Alcohol Ink Aqua, Ranger Distress Markers Spun Sugar, Cracked Pistachio, White Art Stones - Prima, Clear UTEE,  Antique Linen and Black Soot Embossing Powders - Ranger, Antique Linen Distress Glitter - Ranger, Mini Attacher - Ranger, foam dots, Thinlits Handwritten Vacation Dies, Sizzix Village Surf Shack Die.

A Vintage Journey - July Challenge - Monochromatic

Welcome to a our new challenge for July 2016. Our challenge this month is :

MONOCHROMATIC

"I love monochromatic themes in artwork; I love the balanced look it gives to a design. If you ever struggle with knowing what colours to use this should be right up your street, one colour alone or hues of one colour (plus black and/or white) - simple!"

Please just check that your entry is vintage, shabby, mixed-media, art journaling, industrial or steampunk to be in with a chance of being a winner or Pinworthy mention.

The Creative Guides have created a wide array of monochromatic projects to inspire you on your journey.

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Nikki

It has been a while since I did a bit of 'Distress'! So for this challenge I went to a craft day with friends armed only with my blue distress inks, paints, sprays and stains and created a set of tags. There are lots of different techniques which I am showing today over at Addicted to Art.

Alison

Like Tracy, I love to work in Monochrome or in limited shades, and that most often happens when I turn to the neutrals.  So here's my monochromatic handmade nature journal in shades of brown.  It's ready for all my notes and observations on the natural world, and it's full of my favourite wildflowers and grasses.  Do come over to Words and Pictures for a proper look inside.

 

Brenda

I love the neutral palettes and so I played with raw umber with some titan buff and white to create my mixed media background and there's contrast and interest with black stamping and stitching. I also played a bit with the ombre technique but after lots of layers and dipping it's not quite so evident. As always the process steps and more photos are at Bumblebees and Butterflies if you can spare a moment to pop over and take a look and I hope you have a great month of July. xx

Amanda 

For my Monochromatic project I have drawn inspiration from a couple of paintings by the Belgian Surrealist artist Rene Magritte and created a piece of wall art using some of Tim Holtz 2016 CHA products. I have remained true to my love of the classic monochrome palette of black, white and grey /silver . Admittedly my work is more 'real' than 'surreal' but hope you will be able to stop by my blog for more details .

Anne

Monochromatic is not something I do very often, as I usually love to use lots of colour. I have been wanting to ink up my Tim Holtz Sideshow set of stamps, so I created a trio of simple black and white cards with just a touch of red on each.  If you would like to see more please visit my blog!

Deb

As Summer has now officially arrived, I decided to create an ATB in multiple shades of green to house some tag journals I made so I can journal about our holidays and adventures this summer.  I have some step by step photos on my blog, hope you can stop by to see how I made it!

Julia S-W

 I love this theme! It's so much fun to take a colour and use it in varying shades and levels of intensity. I was slightly worried about the pop of yellow/orange on her face but hopefully there's enough orange there to qualify! If you'd like to see how I made this altered notebook, please pop over to my blog by clicking here.

 Tracy Evans

I decided to create a canvas that developed over several days. I love adding layers to my design and I adore tactile pieces which resulted in me adding many layers and an old embroidery hoop for a quirky touch. Pop by my blog to see how to create your own monochromatic hoop garden!

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Thank you to all who joined us for our June challenge, we have all enjoyed visiting your blogs. We look forward to seeing how you are inspired with our July Monochromatic Challenge. 

Our challenge is a monthly one and a randomly chosen winner will receive a $25 gift voucher from our generous sponsor, The Funkie Junkie Boutique. We also award our Pinworthy badges to the Top 3, chosen by the Creative Guides who are subsequently invited to join us on the blog as a guest designer.

You have until Thursday 4th August 2016 to enter and we will then select our random winner who will win a $25 voucher at The Funkie Junkie Boutique and our Pinworthies who we look forward to welcoming as guest designers. You can find all the Creative Guide projects, guest designers, pinworthies and winners on our Pinterest boards.

GOOD LUCK!
Tracy Evans xx

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Destination Inspiration - Last Stop On Our June Journey

Hello and thanks for stopping by.  Deb here today to accompany you as we make our final stop on our Destination Inspiration journey for the month of June.  If you remember from our previous stops this month, our travel bags are packed with the following supplies:

Product:  Lace

Technique:  Texture Paste Through a Stencil

Colour:  Bubblegum Pink

Surface:  Canvas

I have to admit that neither bubblegum pink nor lace are within my comfort zone so this particular travel bag was a challenge but as I rather like the results perhaps it's time I expanded that comfort zone!

I started out with a 5" X 7" flat artists canvas and added some script stenciling to the top half of the canvas using Wendy Vecchi's Crackle Texture Paste through a Stencil Girl Rembrandt Words stencil.  I then laid down a basecoat of pink using Spun Sugar and Picked Raspberry Distress inks and then laid a piece of lace from my stash over the stenciled canvas and sprayed through the lace with Picked Raspberry Distress stain.

I randomly stamped the stenciled background with Tim's Ledger Script stamp and a Finnabair Bubble stamp using Potting Soil Archival ink and then added some spatters of colour using Picked Raspberry Distress stain, Vintage Photo Distress stain and watered down white acrylic paint.

I then fussy cut a piece of lace that I had stained with a coffee, vanilla and cinnamon mixture (from the same lace I used to spray the Distress ink through) and adhered it overtop of the stenciled lace design.  I coloured another piece of lace trim with Ground Espresso Distress spray and adhered it along the bottom of the canvas to ground it.  The edges of the canvas were shaded with Vintage Photo Distress crayon.

A piece of cardstock was coloured with Distress inks in Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral and some spritz and flick with water and stamped with a bird cage stamp from Paper Artsy's HP1004 set.  The bird cage was then die cut with the coordinating Paper Artsy Bird Cage die.

More cardstock was painted with Distress paint in Tattered Rose and I printed the sentiment out on my computer and die cut the label with a Sizzix Ornate Label #4 die.  The edges of the die cut were shaded with some Vintage Photo Distress ink and the sentiment mounted onto some fun foam for a bit of dimension.

Flowers were die cut from pink cardstock I had in my stash and from the same cardstock coloured with Distress inks as the birdcage.  I used Tim Holtz's Tattered Florals and Tiny Tattered Florals dies and overstamped the die cut flowers with a fine script stamp and Potting Soil Archival ink.  The large flower was given some pink seed beads in the center and the smaller flowers had clear micro beads adhered into their centers with Glossy Accents.

A lovely little chipboard swallow from Southern Ridge Trading Company was coloured with a touch of Vintage Photo Distress ink around the edges and I then gave it a brush of Stardust Glitter glue to echo the reflective properties of the seed beads and micro beads in the flower centers.

The die cut bird cage was mounted onto some more fun foam for dimension and I stamped the wee birds again and fussy cut them and mounted them onto more fun foam so they appeared to be ready to take flight from their cage.

As this is our final stop on this month's Destination Inspiration journey, let's take a look back at the wonderful projects created by my fellow Creative Guides.

Jennie

Alison

Jenny

Deb

I am always amazed by the diversity of projects created from the same four ingredients, aren't you?

Thanks so much for traveling along with us this month and I hope that you will return in July when we will embark upon a brand new Destination Inspiration journey.  I also hope that you will join in our June challenge, Texture or Embossing Paste, there are still a few days left to join in the fun!  Have a wonderful week and as always, happy creating!

Deb xo