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Monday, 12 May 2014

Today's special guest is Marjie!

Hi everyone,

Today we're delighted to have a special guest with us - the very talented and creative Marjie Kemper! Marjie has been crafting for many years and has had a presence in blogland for a long time. She is well known to many of us for her particular flair, style and leadership in crafting...

Marjie Kemper has been playing with paper, ink, and paint for 15 years. She started blogging in 2011 after joining in with challenge blogs like ours, and hasn't stopped since. She is a Certified Ranger Educator and teaches mixed media classes at local stores and art retreats. This year she was one of the instructors in the online course, Creative Jumpstart 2014. Marjie's been published in Somerset Studio, Somerset Studio Gallery, The Stamper's Sampler, and more. She loves having inky fingers and plays regularly in her art journal.

For the Fond Memories challenge, I've decided to use this photo of a very fond memory indeed, my Grandfather's 80th Birthday. That's my mom serving him cake, with a candle for each decade. I grew up less than a mile from my grandparents' home, and we saw them all the time. Granddaddy was famous for stretching out birthday celebrations... he'd often end up with several dinner celebrations and a few lunches over the course of several weeks, all revolving around his birthday. He'd encourage us to stretch these moments out, and make them last. He was never upset when someone couldn't visit on the actual day... he'd just say that's all the better for making it last. He had 94 birthdays, so he was pretty good at it!

I decided to make my scrapbook layout with a focus on time.... a theme Tim often embraces. I started with a sheet of 12X12 scrapbook paper from Tim's Laboratorie set. This is so my style.... it comes all grunged up and ready to go. I tore the edges off, being sure to tear towards me rather than away from me so that I'd expose the 'tooth' of the paper. That gives the ink something to grab onto when I distress the edges.

After adding Salty Ocean distress ink with my ink blending tool, I went ahead and did the same with Vintage Photo, being sure to vary the pressure and leave some blue still showing.

I don't scrapbook very much these days, but when I do I like to make customized photo mats. One of my favorite supplies is diecuts, and Tim has dozens of them (maybe hundreds at this point) with Sizzix. Here I used the Iron Gate die, and then the matching embossing folder strip to add texture to the top of the mat. I think I bought that die for a Halloween project, but I have used it this way and on tags numerous times as it's really quite versatile.

I used one of the torn strips on the mat, too. Notice since there's no 'tooth' exposed, the ink appears more muted. After diecutting Block Talk Alphabet letters, I embossed with the Papillon Texture Fade embossing folder.

I love the Sizzix Weathered Clock die and use it a lot. I embossed the clock hands and added a metal Ideaology gear here and on the photo mat. I also applied some of the Salty Ocean distress ink in random places on the paper.

The letters "Granddaddy said" and the number "94" are from Tim's Alpha Parts set, and the circle frame is a very old (red) Sizzix die.

I look forward to seeing what you do with the Fond Memories challenge!

Marjie

This is a stunning project Marjie, thank you and how lovely of you to share with us your memories of your Grandad's 80th birthday - beautiful!

We hope you'll visit Marjie's blog and share some 'VJ love' with her.

The Vintage Journey Creative Guides xxx

Friday, 9 May 2014

Winner's spotlight - It's Jools! Plus our new winner!

Hi everyone,

We've reached our second Friday which means only one thing, well, two actually, our winner's guest spotlight and announcing the winner and Pinworthies from our previous challenge.

Firstly, for those of you who didn't see last month's winner's post - here is Jools - Jools is our Guest Creative Guide today...

I work full time as a Textile Design & Development Manager working on commercial projects and developing product collections, so I’m constantly being creative working with textures, design and colour which I love. In my spare time, I enjoy all types of arts and crafts and working with multimedia particularly altered art using paint, die cutting, stamps, using lots of colour, texture and experimenting with new techniques. I’m currently on the DecoArt International Design Team, so I love using paints on my projects particularly with the Gelli Plate and Stencils.

A few years ago I discovered this amazing guy called Tim Holtz, I was so inspired and it got me back into crafting but in a different way, I loved this kind of mixed up grungy style, amazing products, variety and attention to detail, and easy to alter. I’m so pleased to have been selected as the winner ‘A little Bit French’ Challenge and asked to be a Guest Designer for the ‘Fond Memories’ Challenge. A Vintage Journey is a fabulous concept and I look forward to travelling along with future Challenges. Such wonderful themes which are always inspiring and I look forward to seeing everyone’s amazing creations.

http://joolsrobertson.blogspot.co.uk/

My memory box and album is inspired by a special place with fond memories. We frequently stayed in a village in the Yorkshire Dales when I was growing up, a beautiful place, fresh air, green rolling hills and a group of peacocks! They inhabited the village and ruled the roost constantly calling and parading around displaying their beautiful feathers.

All of the images are from the surrounding area and places we visited, one very fond memory is the St Michael and all Angels, a place I loved to go into and count the wooden mice. The pews were made by Robert Thompson known as the Mouseman due to his famous carvings and trademark.

I started my memory box with an image transfer technique using DecoArt Faux Medium on the lid using a peacock feather image, I aged this with one step crackle and a wash of DecoArt Quinacridone Gold, Burnt Umber and Carbon Black.

The outside of the box was painted with black and burnt umber acrylic and decorated with Tim’s Vintage lace die cuts in black card and then dry brushed with Metallic Rich Espresso. Once dry I applied the various decorative metal fixings.

The memory album is based on Tim’s W book format but left just as a concertina only sticking the sides that form the pockets the ends fixed to the inside of the box. The great thing about the concertina book is the it allows for any depth of embellishments and you can add more pages.

I Coloured the Curio knob, Foundations box feet, trim, Word keys, heart and oval charms with Alcohol inks to add a more vintage effect.

The heart was cut from Tim Holtz die covered in modelling paste and painted with Acrylics and metallic shimmer, the smaller hearts were chipboard and painted. I also made some of the embellishments using UTEE & Ranger texture treads and edged the micro slides too.

Details of some of the feature pages and tags, I made 16 in total which was two of W books put together. The remainder are made up of photo pages.

Products

Tim Holtz: Lost and found papers, Destinations, Kraft Resist, Kraft Glassine, Texture fades Harlequin, Nature walk stamps, Mini muse stamps, Mini Heart die, Vintage lace die, Tag & Bookplates, Curio Knobs. Heart Charms, Cash keys, Locket keys, Word keys, Alcohol Inks, Distress Inks & Stains, Glossy Accents

DecoArt: One Step Crackle, Metallics Perfect Pearl Peacock and Purple, Rich Espresso and Glorious Gold, Traditions Quinacridone Gold, Carbon Black, Burnt Umber, Modelling Paste

Other: Cricut Cartridges - Paper lace, Fancy Frames, Art Nouveau, Fiskars Plumage, QuicKutz Feather Die, Prima Vintage Trinkets

Wow Jools, what an awesome and inspirational work of art, fabulous! Thank you so much for guesting for us today and sharing this exciting project with us! We hope you'll visit Jools and show your appreciation for her work.

And now for the winner of our last challenge, Spring flowers, which was hosted by Jennie so over to her...

Thank you all so much for all the wonderful entries for the Spring Flowers Challenge. I was totally bowled over by your creative and inspirational entries, but in particular the amazing array of different ways you all had for creating flowers!

Choosing a winner from so many fabulous entries was difficult but the most votes from the Design Team went to:

No. 57 Mo from Almo Craft

Mo created a fabulous card using Tim Holtz Wallflower papers and wonderful over stamping and made her own gorgeous pink cherry blossoms and daisies.

http://almocraft.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/avj-daisies-bees-cherry-blossom.html

Pinworthy badges go to:

No. 50 Rita

http://rmgcreations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/artist-trading-block.html

No. 24 Vada

http://vada-stampsinkandpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/spring-flowers.html

No. 30 Elly

http://ellypirally.blogspot.de/2014/04/spring-flowers.html

A BIG thank you to all of you who took part and good luck in our future challenges!

The Vintage Journey Creative Guides xxx

Monday, 5 May 2014

Destination Inspiration- Recycle and Re-purpose

Hi Everyone..........its Annie here and I would like to welcome you to my first Destination Inspiration post at AVJ. Here the Creative Guides hope to provide you with some projects to inspire and motivate you.

Today I am sharing a recycled and re-purposed box so lets go !! It is a bit photo heavy so grab a cuppa as we head on our journey. :-)

This is the box that I started off with...its fairly sturdy and great for storing various crafty items.

I used Tim Holtz Vintage Shabby papers to cover the box inside and out and once I had cut them to the required size I started to create ..........Ranger Glue n Seal was applied to both the box and the papers as I found this enables easier positioning.

First of all I added Distress Paint to colour some texture paste, which I applied to the paper using Tim's Harlequin stencil. (I find it easier to decorate the papers before applying them to the outside of my box..but its up to the individual.)

I then blended the edges of the paper in Peacock Feather DI, which really intensified the blue tones of the paper.

A piece of manila card was given Tim Holtz Marbling Effect, details of this technique are on page 43 of CC3. Stencil's, Distress Inks and some stamping, which you can see in the next photograph, were added to create more depth.

The manila card was then adhered to Tim's Ornate Frame Die using Ranger Collage Glue. Peacock Feather Distress Ink was applied around the edges of the ornate frame as well as a little gilding wax here and there. (The stamped image you can see is from Tim Holtz SA Classics 19.)

A favourite stamp set of mine is the Paris Memoirs and you can see below how they were stamped and cut out. The edges of the main stamped image were aged using Tim's distressing tool. The word Paris, the gent's tie/waistcoat were coloured using Distress Marker's in China Blue and Scattered Straw.

Vintage Photo DI was applied around the edges and then the piece was matted on to some navy card, which had also been aged around the edges.

Now my pages are coming together and I added some Idea-ology ornate frames, a trellis (TH Trellis Die), gilding wax and TH Bubble stencil.

Building up the other side you can once again view stenciling, Idea-Ology and gilding wax.

Once I was satisfied with the decor I then began to add other Idea-ology pieces i.e the feet and corners. The feet and corners were adhered with Glossy Accents.