Hello fellow Vintage Journey travelers, and welcome to our December challenge! It's Julia with you today from
Create with Me as your hostess and here is my challenge for you!
Star Light Star Bright
This month we are asking you to to create with stars. Fill up the dark
winter sky with them or use one really big one as your central focus.
Stencil them, stamp them, emboss them or die cut them. Make a card, make
a star box, make a canvas, create a journal page - remembering to
create in the vintage, shabby, mixed media, art journaling, industrial
or steam punk styles.
I'm pretty sure you will be excited by what the Creative Guides have to share below and that you, in turn, will be inspired to create your own Star Light Star Bright project to share with us!
I created a winter scene with snowy hills and a family of deer gazing up at the large silver star standing out among the millions of smaller stars in the night sky! You will find a few more photos of my card
here on my blog.
I'll be back here at AVJ on 12/21/18 posting my full tutorial for you!
We are very lucky here in Shetland to have clear skies where it is
possible to see so many stars clearly in the night sky. They sparkle so
brightly you can almost hear them! Do visit me over at
Live The Dream if you want to see how I made my frosty and sparkling star for Julia's lovely challenge.
My trio of starry tags came about as part of another collaborative
crafting process via Skype. If you'd like to find out more, do come and
visit me at
Words and Pictures.
You'll get a proper look at the sparkling starlight there, as well as
being able to see those twiggy trees without huge shadows under them -
yes, I gave myself another tricky photography task with these!
I have created a seasonal wall hanging in time for Christmas for this
challenge. I had great fun making this one as it was another adventure
in Skype crafting! Gather a few distant friends, connect via technology,
and create 'together' while following a few rules! All the details can
be found over on my
blog.
The day started with a large mdf board, my paints and mediums, the ipad
and a thought that I would create something wintry or Christmassy. The
ipad linked me to a crafty skype session with lovely teamies and this is
what appeared. If you'd like to see the process steps please pop over
to
Bumblebees and Butterflies where all will be revealed.
I decided to create a reverse canvas for Julia's lovely challenge.
Unfortunately the light here has been so bad, that I was unable to take
step out photos of this project, but for a description please head to
my blog, for further details.
My favourite die for this year is Tim Holtz Merry Moose, he always makes me smile! I created a small vignette -and it lights up too! You can see more
HERE
I really wanted the Star of Bethlehem to be the focus of my card, but if you stop by
sarascloset you'll find that's not the only star in the night sky!
For
the last couple of years, around this time I have enjoyed creating a
project/ piece of art that has a wintery, snowy feel so I saw Julia's
challenge as an opportunity to continue my trend by creating a snowy
scene with a winter blue sky full of falling snowy stars. For more
details please feel free to pop by
my blog.
We are always amazed by your talent and creative takes on the theme
every month. The Creative Guides select three Pinworthies at the end of
each challenge which are featured in a post the following month. If you
are one of our chosen entries you will receive a badge of honour and
your projects will be pinned to our Pinterest boards.
You have until January 3, 2019 at 6 pm Greenwich time to add your link!
Happy creating!
Julia and all of the Creative Guides
