Destination Inspiration for a Vintage Journey.

Hello dear visitors. Today I have a step by step project on the Vintage Journey blog, where every Monday the Creative Guides do a step by step project using 4 specific projects, colours and techniques. Today is my turn, and here is a corner of what I made:

If you want to see more, just click HERE.

Have a wonderful week and see you next time.

xxx

Destination Inspiration at a Vintage Journey

Hello all and here we are, the start of a new week already again... April is just flying by.

Today it is my turn to share a so called "Destination Inspiration" piece over at A Vintage Journey.
Here is just a little snippet of the full project:

If you want to see more, just click HERE.

I had great fun putting this together and there are full how to instructions over there.

Like always, thanks for your visit today and I'll be back with a full project over here soon.

Have a happy week!

xxx

Artist Journey at AVJ

Hello lovely visitors, great to see you here! Today it is my turn to share a detailed step by step "Destination Inspiration" project over at A Vintage Journey. As you can find all of the details there, I'll just give you a little preview here.

Hope you'll take the time to hop over. I had great fun creating it and very much hope you'll like it....

Thanks for dropping in today like always and happy creating!!

Autumnal Inspiration for A Vintage Journey

Hello lovely friends and visitors! Thanks for dropping in! Today I have a "Destination Inspiration" post to share over at A Vintage Journey.

To see the full project and a detailed step by step, all you need to do is click HERE

Hope to see you there and happy travels!!

Back with a bang.....

Hello everyone and welcome! Thank you for dropping in after my long absence from blogging while I was in Australia.

Well finally I am back home and slowly getting back into the swing of things and today I have not one, but two projects due. I am sorry to say I also did not manage to visit many of you during my absence, but from now on I should be properly back and look forward to seeing what you are up to!
This is the second project I am sharing today, the other one can be seen HERE:

This one an altered box holding a set of alphabet stamps as you can see.

To get a full description, more photos and a step by step, please visit A Vintage Journey, where I am sharing a Destination Inspiration post today. Hope to see you there!

Have a great week

Destination Inspiration # 3 for A Vintage Journey.

Hi everyone, thanks for dropping in! Just one photo here today, but I have a full tutorial over at A Vintage Journey, hope you will check it out...
For these Destination Inspiration posts 4 design team members take it in turn to share a project using the same "recipe". This is what we have been using this month:

Product: Any Tattered Die

Technique: Layering Stencil : Texture Paste

Colour: Walnut Stain

Substrate: Watercolour Paper

This is the project I created:

If you want to see how I put this together, all you need to do is click HERE

Thanks for dropping by like always,

Destination Inspiration for A Vintage journey, - sprays and pastes.

Hello all and lovely to have you drop in. Today it is my turn again to share a project over at A Vintage Journey under the heading of Destination Inspiration. As I was thinking about what to write for what I have done, I came to the conclusion that Destination Inspiration is perhaps not quite the right title for my project,  Destination Exploration would be a better name for it on this occasion, for when I started I had no idea where I would land up, as really I was just experimenting.... But I hope that what I am about to share, may give you some inspiration along the way too to explore and discover....

So I decided to play with the new Tim Holtz Distress Sprays and try them out on as many different substrates and texture pastes as I could. I created a series of 9  different tags, I will number them, and here on my own blog I will share step by steps for some of them in greater detail than I did over at the Vintage Journey blog, where I am showing all 9 in one go.


So here goes:

Tag 1

Sprays on a plain manila tag:

Colours used: Antique Linen, Vintage Photo, Walnut stain. I wetted the tag and then sprayed my three chosen colours, spritz some more water and then dried with a heat gun.
Next I used the Shattered Layering Stencil and sprayed with the Walnut Stain spray, adhering the stencil onto the tag with some removable spray adhesive so it would stay in place.

Next I did some background stamping, using the Classics 14 and Mercantile stamp .sets in Black Archival

Finally I collaged other stamped elements and finished it all off with some embellishments, including the little alpha tiles that I was lucky enough  to receive the other day as part of the huge parcel I got from my win at the Compendium of Curiosities challenge.

Alright, on to:

Tag 2

Sprays on a Black tag:

I die cut a tag from thick black card and gave it a first spraying with two of the metallic sprays, Tarnished Brass and Antique Bronze. To be honest, I was not too excited with the result, so gave it a second spraying, this time using Picket Fence and Peacock Feathers.

Much better I reckon, love the verdigris effect of this, definitely one to remember I think.

Now before I go on, I just want to mention that I think it is a good idea to put some large sheets of scrap paper underneath your work area when using the sprays as I found they tend to go everywhere, this also gives you some great backgrounds, as inevitably they will soak up some of all that lovely spray. Here is a piece of mine that I decided to use on this tag:

I decided to  die cut a leaf with the new leaf and matching embossing folder:

This became the main embellishment for the finished tag, here it is:

I used some remnant rubs (they adhere perfectly on the sprays, unlike on top of Distress Inks)! and finished off with some other bits and pieces.

Well, that's it for just now. Tomorrow I have a different project going live, but in the days to come I will post some more details of some of the other tags I made. If you want a quick over view, please head over to A Vintage Journey, and if you have come from there, then thank you for dropping by here.

Have a great week ahead and look after yourselves. xxx

Destination Inspiration, layered collage...

Hello everyone and thanks for dropping by! High time to say a special welcome to all my new followers, it is wonderful to have you along for the journey!

Today it is my turn to post an inspiration tutorial on A Vintage Journey. I created a tutorial on how to do a layered collage for this tag card:

There is a collage on the inside too as well as a tag, so if you want to see more and get a step by step on how I built it al up, all you need to do is click here.

Hope you'll take the time to look and tell me what you think.

Meanwhile, thanks for dropping by here and have a great week ahead!!