October Crazy for Autumn Colour Winner and Pinworthies

Hello everyone! 

Well here we are already in November and about to announce the winner and pinworthies of our October challenge: Crazy for Autumn Colour. There were a fabulous number of entries and as usual you made it very difficult for us all to decide on our top three entries. 

Thank you again for travelling with us on our Creative Journey here at A Vintage Journey, we really appreciate each and every entry.

But first ...... a drum roll please .... for our randomly drawn winner of last month's prize sponsored by Calico Craft Parts. And Mr Random.org has chosen ......

That's #37 Jane of Jane's Journal who created this fabulous page spread full of light and shadow and autumnal colour.

Congratulations, Jane!  We'll be in touch shortly with your Winner's Badge, and to arrange delivery of your prize package from Calico Craft Parts.

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And now we turn to our three Pinworthy choices. We challenged you to be Crazy for Autumn Colour and these three fabulous entries really shine through with colour! 

Mary Elizabeth

The fabulous use of Distress Oxides really shines through the darker colours and we loved the addition of textiles in this wonderful autumnal tag.

Maria Lillepruun

Maria has used many gorgeous layers of textures and stunning colours on her Autumnal page.

Swagatika

Bursting with colour and cogs! Swagatika has managed to create an amazing piece of art from an old computer mother board.

Congratulations to our three Pinworthies this month and thank you all for brightening our month with so much wonderful colour. We will be in touch shortly with your Pinworthy badges and invitations to be a Guest Creative Guide here at A Vintage Journey sometime in the future.

Don't forget to come back again on Monday for another Destination Inspiration using those wonderful travel bag goodies and we do hope you find time to join in our latest challenge which is Mini Marvels. All the details can be found HERE.

Have a great weekend!

Jennie and the Creative Guides

Destination Inspiration - Arriving at Terminal #1

Hello Fellow Travellers

Anne here, to welcome you to the first of our Destination Inspiration posts for November!  Let's have a look what is in the travel bag for this month:

Product  :  Distress Oxide

Technique  :  Faded Layers

Colour  :  Blue,/Teal/Green

Substrate  :  White Card

Hmm, quite the bag this month!  I am not a great fan of Alcohol Inks but I rose to the challenge, I hope - and I hope you will be inspired to have a go too!  I was definitely outside my comfort zone, but I actually enjoyed the process in the end!

I made two tags which I will use to decorate Christmas presents - Christmas is so worryingly close!

I chose Pesto (Green), Patina (Teal), Sailboat Blue and Stonewashed (Blue) and applied these with a Blender tool onto Alcohol Ink card (white card element).

Next up I took a Tim Holtz stencil and carefully applied Alcohol Ink Blending Solution, using a blending tool, this needs a gentle touch.  You will see various blue and green tones in my photos, because I did several before I was happy with the result!

Here is a close up of one of my backgrounds that I felt happy with!

I cut my card into tags with Tim's Thinlit tag die.

I mounted my two favourite backgrounds onto toning card and added a Remnant Rub to each.

I needed to use Distress Oxide and I took some watercolour card and Abandoned Coral Distress Oxiide and applied this to both sides of the card.

I die cut my poinsettias, leaves and pine cones to decorate my tags.

Finally, here is a close up of the decoration on the blueish tag, I added some Baby's Breath and gauze, the poinsettia centres are decorated with Tim's new Idea-ology stamens.

I hope you will join us in our latest challenge Mini Marvels, which you can find HERE.  Thanks too, for stopping by.

Hugs, Anne  xx

Mini Marvels!

Hello and welcome to our November Challenge!  Anne here, I have the pleasure of hosting this month's challenge which is:

Mini Marvels

This month's challenge is to create something in miniature - it could be a little book, a tiny scene, a small canvas, a wall hanging or even a box.  It MUST be 4" or less in size and be created in your vintage, shabby, mixed media, art journalling, industrial, timeworn or steampunk style.

Our wonderful Sponsor this month is Southern Ridge Trading Company who will be offering one randomly chosen winner a $50 varied selection of chipboard and wood veneer laser cut embellishments!

So, let's take a look at what our Creative Guides have created for your inspiration.

Anne

I love making 3D projects and I challenged myself to create a  miniature 3D project using one dimensional dies by Tim Holtz, along with a Christmas bauble and a plastic tub - and there is a special little twist too!  If you would like to see more please pop over to my blog - Redanne.

Alison

If you mention miniatures to me, my mind goes to dollshouses, so it was pretty inevitable that I would end up with some little houses as my inspiration offering for Anne's wonderful Mini Marvels theme.  The tallest is exactly four inches high, and the smallest is only half that!  Do come and see all the tiny details over at Words and Pictures.

Nikki 


Having recently been to Seth Apter's 'Book of Moments' workshop I was inspired to create a mini book for our Mini Marvels challenge.  My 3 inch square book contains Alison Bomber quote stamps and definitely has that handmade, vintage feel.  For all the details and the inside pages, please pop over to my blog - Addicted to Art.

Julia

For my Mini Marvel - I created a little reindeer stall for one of  Santa's reindeer - who is standing ready for Christmas Eve when Santa needs him to help pull his sleigh around the world!  I used a new Sizzix Heart Shrine Die along with some Idea-ology supplies, rusty stars and aged my stall with some rust paste.  Please come see how I put this together over at my blog - Create with Me!

Jennie

Whilst travelling home from Switzerland last week I had a Gin and Tonic on the plane (as you do.....) and as soon as I saw the little miniature Bombay Sapphire Gin bottle I knew I wanted to alter it for Anne's challenge.  If you would like to see the details then please hop on over to my blog.  Cheers!

Autumn

Each year we try to spice up the holiday fun in our home by giving the kids 12 small gifts each day leading up to Christmas.  I used this challenge as a way to get started on my presents and made little 4x4" matchbook gift card holders.  Each one is unique so that each child feels special.  I hope you will hop on over to SewPaperPaint for the tutorial and close ups.

S@ndy

With Christmas fast approaching we will all be in need of gift tags.  This challenge was the perfect prompt to get me going.  Please stop by my blog here to see more details and photos.

Amanda

For Anne's Challenge I have had a great time using paints, texture, stamps and stencils to create 2 pieces of 'Mini Art' with a grungy feel.  There are more details on my blog if you fancy stopping by.

Brenda

I'm having a complete reorganisation of my art and craft stuff and came across these little pocket watches by Wendy Vecchi. They have been tucked away for eons but appeared miraculously just at the right time to enter Anne's Mini Marvels challenge and of course with Christmas on the way I thought they'd make fabulous little tags for men pressies. There's a few more photos over at Bumblebees and Butterflies if you can make it.

Well I hope that you have been inspired by all the wonderful examples by the Creative Guides above.  We are looking forward to seeing your 'Mini Marvels' this month!  You could be selected as one of our Pinworthies, and of course, one lucky randomly drawn winner will receive a wonderful package of goodies from Southern Ridge Trading Company!  Good Luck everyone!

Anne and the Creative Guides  xxx

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October Destination Inspiration - Arriving at Terminal #4

Hello, everyone!  Julia here to welcome you to A Vintage Journey's Destination Inspiration for October.
Today we have arrived at Terminal #4!
The contents of our travel bags for this month are:

Product - Crackle Paint/Paste

Technique - Die Cutting

Colour - Any Fall colours you fancy

Substrate - Corrugated Card

With the supplies in my travel bag, I created a fall pumpkin patch decoration with a harvest moon overhead!

Here are a few photos of how I created this.  I took some real fall leaves that I picked up on a walk recently, they were lovely fall colors or orange, red and yellow but I knew they wouldn't last so I pressed Versamark ink onto them and embossed them with a mixture of tan, cranberry and brown embossing powders to hopefully preserve them.

For my base, I took a thin slice of an aspen branch that Kent had cut for me some time ago, and cut a piece of corrugated cardboard to fit over the top.  I ripped off most of the top to expose the corrugation.

I covered the cardboard with Finnabair White Crackle Texture Paste and let it dry overnight.  Then I sprinkled Infusions Sleight Blue and Green Man from PaperArtsy over the crackle and spritzed with water to activate the colors.  There was still a lot of white showing, so I rubbed some Forest Moss Distress Ink on my craft mat, spritzed with water, and painted the color over the base.

I wasn't exactly sure what I was trying to make it look like -  but felt at this point it rather looked like tilled soil in the pumpkin patch so I was happy with it!

I recently purchased this lovely To the Moon stamp set from Altenew and knew it would be perfect to use to create my big harvest moon over the pumpkin patch.  I die cut the circle twice and stamped both pieces with the 3 layers for the moon.  I used Soft Stone for the base color, Orange Zest for the first crater stamp and Smokey Shadow for the 3rd layer.  Then I sponged the edges with Distress Carved Pumpkin to really make it a bright fall moon.  I curled a wire over a pen and attached one end between the tree base and the corrugated piece and the other end between the two pieces of the moon and it stood up brilliantly - just as I hoped it would!

To add another die cut to my project -  I cut a fence out of  corrugated cardboard using Tim's On The Fence die.  I colored the fence with Infusions Green Man and spritzed with water. 

(Green Man seems to be mostly blue!?! maybe because I used it on the brown cardboard?)

I adhered the fence around the back edge of the base, adding some Idea-ology Small Talk/Occasions stickers to the fence and around the front of the base that I sponged with Distress Carved Pumpkin Ink.

I adhered my leaves to the base along with Idea-ology Pumpkin Pieces and Mini Pumpkins.  I added little pieces of cinnamon sticks as stems for the Mini Pumpkins.

I just love this little pumpkin patch - no matter what angle I look at it from!

In case you missed the previous October Terminal stops -

See Anne's project  at Terminal #1

See Alison's  project at Terminal #2

See Sandy's project at Terminal #3

 

I hope you have enjoyed your stop at Terminal #4 and that you will join in Jennie's wonderful A Vintage Journey challenge this month - Crazy for Autumn Colour which you can find HERE.
 

Stamps:  To the Moon - Altenew

Paper:  white - PTI, Corrugated Cardboard from a package.

Ink:  Soft Stone, Orange Zest, Smokey Shadow - Papertrey Ink, Ranger Distress Carved Pumpkin and Forest Moss, Versamark.

Accessories:  On the Fence Die - Tim Holtz/Alterations, Big World Die - Altenew, real maple leaves, slice of aspen branch,  Ranger Distress Tan and Brown Embossing Powders, Adirondack Cranberry Embossing Powder, heat tool, Idea-ology Pumpkin Pieces, Small Talk Stickers/Occasions, Mini Pumpkins, white Crackle texture Paste - Finnabair/Art Extravagance, palette knife, Tom Bow Glue, black wire, small pieces of cinnamon sticks, Infusion Colored Stains Sleight Blue and Green Man - PaperArtsy.

We have a returning guest today ..........................

It's always so wonderful when incredible artists return to be a guest again for us and today we have the amazing ...........

Marjie Kemper with us.

Marjie has been creating and blogging for quite a few years and as a blogger myself it's been fabulous watching her art and designs change and see her become so active and create a business for herself in this challenging world we live in. She teaches across America and has an online workshop too, she has been published in many publications and has become very well known in the industry.
Over to Marjie to introduce herself and share her project for today.

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Hi, everyone. Marjie Kemper, here. It's a pleasure to be your guest today at A Vintage Journey!  I adore mixed media art and am honored to be with you.  My passions are art making, teaching classes, and running my own small business, and I'm currently working on new online courses that will address all of these topics. You can find me on my website and any of the social platforms.

When I heard Jennie's theme was "Crazy for Autumn Colors," I knew I'd be reaching immediately for my Distress Oxide inks. Our fall is coming late this year in New York, so I've created my own burst of fall color with this project.

I've used a combination of materials on this one. The base is one of Tim Holtz's shadow boxes.

After inking up all the tags with a variety of Distress Oxide inks, I added interest with stencils and an ink blending tool.

Once all the tags were dry, I cut up some of the them, diecut others, and stamped on a few as well. 

I used the same inking and stenciling on a larger piece of manila card for the base, and I tried to keep this in a light/bright color pattern.

I used several pieces of cardboard to support my tag, so it appears to be 3-D in the box.

The top and bottom accents on this tag are from a Pediments Sizzix die. I've used metal accents and chit chat stickers to jazz it up.

I've created a Distress Ink Blending Checklist that I'd love to share with you. As you know, Distress Oxides are unique in that they are a combination of dye and pigment inks. This checklist is a basic guideline on color blending, which I do the same way with both Distress Oxides and regular Distress Inks. Pop on over to my blog for a copy if you'd find that useful.

Have a wonderful day!

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Oh Yes it's a wonderful day spending some time looking at these gorgeous tags Marjie and how you have cut them and designed this beautiful box. The autumnal hues fit the challenge brief perfectly and what a glorious mix of rich and golden tones you have produced. Thank you so much for making the time to share your incredible talent with us here at A Vintage Journey and making such a superb project.

I hope you, our lovely readers, will take a moment to pop over to Marjie's blog and see both this and all her other work, I shall also be looking for the Blending Checklist, I find little aide memoirs and checklist tools such great things to keep to look at time and again when I'm working with those particular products.

The 'Crazy for Autumn Colours' is still running for another week and it's such a pleasure to see and get to visit so many brilliant entries already linked up, I hope you can join in if you haven't already.

Enjoy these autumn days while we have them here in the northern hemisphere, it seems the season has started a little late but the colours are now looking stunning.

Enjoy the weekend and any creative time you have planned.

hugs Brenda and the Creative Guides. xxx