More Pinworthy Inspiration

Hello and thank you for stopping by, we have more wonderful Pinworthy inspiration to share with you today complements of our Pinworthy winners from May; Jannet of Enchanted Place, Maria of My Hobby Scrap and Susi of Froebelsternchen. They have all created wonderful projects for our current Watercolour challenge, enjoy!

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Jannet



Hi I am Jannet from London, UK. I was surprised and delighted to have been included in the pinworthy choices, thank you so much. I have been crafting for as long as I can remember. I have many early memories of cutting up cornflakes boxes to make furniture for my Sindy doll. I am still guilty of collecting “useful” boxes.

I enjoy a variety of crafts, and whenever possible I love to incorporate elements from nature into my projects.

One of my favourite colouring mediums is watercolours, so I was thrilled to discover that this month Amanda has chosen “Watercolour Wonder” for her theme.



After creating my watercolour background, I stamped the girl blowing a dandelion and used pressed gypsophila for the dandelion clock. I wound twine and cords at the base of the picture and slotted pressed gypsophila between them.



May all your wishes come true xx

My Blog is called Enchanted Place and I hope you will pop by for a visit.



Maria

Hello everyone! I’m very glad to be a guest designer in such a wonderful blog, it’s an honor for me! My name is Maria Loginova, I’m from Russia, from city called Saratov. I’m a wife and mother. I become acquainted with scrapbooking about 2.5 years ago, and since that time we are inseparable. I like that due to my favorite hobby I could be engaged in creativity and communicate with like-minded people all over the world.



I have made a canvas on a hoop for this task.



This work is based on old child photo of my husband and his mother. My idea was to emphasize sensitivity and tenderness of this photo.



I have used watercolor paints and distress ink pad for background as well as other mixed-media techniques.



I have prepared a detailed step-by-step tutorial for you for this project.

TUTORIAL

Thank you!

Susi



Hi, I'm Susi (aka froebelsternchen) living in the North of Austria. I started my journey in Mixed Media wonderland in 2003 with rubber stamping. Since this time I've become addicted to Mixed Media Art. My main focus - Art Journaling - gives me the freedom and all kinds of possibilities, playing and breaking the rules, in fact making my own. I am so excited to show you my Art –Journal spread , created for the ‘Watercolour Wonder’ Challenge here at A Vintage Journey.



I used dried plant material that I collected at one of my walks in our beautiful region and my trusty old Watercolour paint box.



Thank you to the "A Vintage Journey " Team for inviting me and for continuing to provide us all with wonderful inspiration.



For more details please visit my blog.

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Amazing inspiration from our Pinworthies, thank you so much to Jannet, Maria and Susi for joining us this month and sharing their talents with us all!  And we hope that all of you will also join us for our August Watercolour challenge, you have until September 1st to join in the fun so break out those watercolours and get creating!  Can't wait to see what you link up and thank you again for stopping by today.

Deb xo

August Destination Inspiration - arriving at Terminal 2

Hello all, Alison here from Words and Pictures, arriving at Terminal 2 of Destination Inspiration.  As a reminder, here's what's in the travel bag this month:

Product - texture paste

Technique - layers

Colour - neutrals

Substrate - glass

I have to confess I really enjoyed this one, so this is one of my long posts.  Cups of coffee at the ready?  Then off we go... here are my foliage lanterns.

And here they are when they are candlelit from within.

Since the technique element this month is all about layers, I have to share at least some of them with you.  I started with my plain glass jars (always happy to recycle a glass jar).

First layer for jar one was some Transparent Gloss Texture Paste applied through a harlequin stencil.  Of course the paste goes on opaque, and then dries to transparency.

I was hoping that I'd be left with some clear "windows" for the candle to shine through.  It didn't go quite according to plan in the end, but I like what I ended up with maybe even more so not to worry.  Jar two had a layer even before the texture paste - some strips of tissue tape, which I thought would show through nicely.

And then the texture paste went over the top of the strips.

Jar one has its tissue tape around the neck instead.  I quite like both looks!

At this point, I was enjoying the transparent texture over the transparent glass especially with the tissue tape strips showing through.

Next layer was some spritzing with the DecoArt Media Mister in White.

It's a shimmer mist, so you get a lovely soft mother-of-pearl effect.  It didn't leave entirely clear windows (well, the gloss paste is no more of a resist than the glass underneath, of course) but I do like that the texture still shows.

And when the sunlight hits it... wow!

I mopped up the excess shimmering white liquid onto some spare card - and that's going to come in handy very soon.  The grid pattern you can see is from the internal structure of the cardboard I was using as my spray area - the texture printed as I was mopping up the spray.

Next I did a couple of spritzes with Pumice Stone and Old Paper Distress Sprays.  It adds just a little extra depth to the texture, but it looked a bit grubby in places, so I finished off with another spritz of the Shimmer White.

While that was all drying thoroughly, I started inking up my mop-up card with subtle neutral tones of both Distress Ink and Distress Oxide.  There's Pumice Stone and Iced Spruce and Vintage Photo.

Later on I blended on some Walnut Stain and Gathered Twigs, I think, with maybe some Black Soot thrown in for good measure in places.  From that I started cutting lots of foliage using the Tim Holtz thinlits.  I loved these, even before I'd done anything with them!

And I preserved the paler card for cutting some wildflowers.

I started layering the foliage onto the jars from dark to light.  Darker fronds and branches in the background...

... to the pale off-white wildflowers for the top layer.

(I always like to check out how things are going from the inside.)

At least, I thought it was the top layer... until I decided that I needed some words.

So the actual top layer is formed by some of my quote stamps from EAB02 Darkness and Light.

They're stamped in Ground Espresso (Archival version) on some more of the inky card which gives a lovely soft effect.

And I mounted them on padded tape, so that they stand a little way proud of the foliage, giving that top layer a touch more dimension.

Some simple twine around the grooves at the tops of the jars finishes them off.

It's another tricky photography challenge... these change so much in different lights.

In full daylight, with the light falling on them, they look almost like stone.

When they were on my desk, with the daylight falling inside, they were already glowing beautifully.

And when you put the candles in and light them in the dark, the foliage turns into glorious silhouettes.

If you want an altogether simpler look, you can turn them around and just have the mottled harlequin texture and subtle tissue tape text.

Also pretty by candlelight...

And when they're lit both within and without, then you get pretty much the best of both worlds...

as seen in the candlelit photo near the start of the post.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Check out what Nikki got up to last week with these same travel bag contents, and pop back next Monday to see who's up next to play with them.  And in the meantime we'd love you to come along and play in our Watercolour challenge this month.  Hope to see you somewhere along the road.

Alison x

Winners and Pinworthies - July Challenge - All Squared Up

Hi Everyone and welcome to our Winners and Pinworthies day  here at A Vintage Journey!

We hope you enjoyed our All Squared Up Challenge - we had so many fabulous entries - Thank You. The Creative Guides always have a tough job selecting their favourites.


Now let's move onto today's winner drawn by the Random Generator:

Congratulations To:

Craftyfield - No 11

Your badge will be on its way to you shortly, and we'll be in touch about the sponsor's prize too.  Congratulations!

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The Creative Guides Selected Favourites to become our three Pinworthies, whose designs are pinned to our Pinterest Board and you are invited to be a Guest Creative Guide.

In no particular order, we have chosen:

No 9 - Lucy

No 12 - Art and Soul (Julie)

No 19 - Macarena

Huge congratulations to you all. Your Pinworthy Badges will be on their way to you shortly and we hope you will join us here as guests for a forthcoming challenge.

Many thanks again to everyone who joined in this challenge. Our current challenge Watercolour is currently underway - we look forward to seeing your entries. 

Check out the Creative Guide inspiration to see some of the diverse ways this theme has been interpreted.

Until next time - happy crafting!

Tracy

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August Destination Inspiration - First stop....

Hello and welcome to the first of our Destination Inspiration posts for August. A new travel bag awaits us and it includes:

Product - Texture Paste

Technique - Layering

Colour - Neutrals

Substrate - Glass (bottles / jars etc)

I didn't find inspiration came quickly with this mix but creativity is a journey and I just put one foot in front of the other and went with an idea. I had just finished a jar of Marmite and thought the jar might make a good substrate! Here is what I came up with:

There is probably not anyone in the UK who doesn't know what Marmite is and I think it is available in many countries although it may not be quite so ubiquitous as here in the UK. The marketing slogan here is 'Love it or Hate It' - and you have probably guessed I love it! It is made in Burton Upon Trent which is my home town - so I grew up with it.

Here is how I made my Vintage Marmite jar!

Firstly I gave the entire jar a coat of Deco Art Crackle paint and once dry and cracked, sealed it with matt medium. I then added a wash of raw sienna and some burnt umber.

I then worked on some embellishments. I took a piece of material I had lying around that I must have stiffened slightly and cut it into an oval before adding some burnt sienna to colour it.

Once dry I added crackle texture paste to the centre - spreading thickly - like my Marmite!

While this was drying I also prepared some embellishments - some letters and a strip of muslin.

Once the crackle texture paste on my oval material was dry I added Transparent Yellow Oxide and started to put it together. I then decided I needed another layer - so cut a piece of canvas slightly larger than my oval to form the base layer. Ever forget what is in your crafty stash? I suddenly remembered I had a banner punch very similar to the one on the branded Marmite jar - so punched this from card and added a little burnt sienna. I finished off with a little mdf heart.

Thanks for stopping my today and do join us again next Monday for the next stop on this month's journey.

Happy crafting!
Nikki
Addicted to Art
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