We're All Getting Older Pinworthy Winners

Hello all, and a huge thank you for sharing your aged, weathered, distressed, antiqued projects in last month's We're All Getting Older challenge.

The Creative Guides had a great time visiting all your new-made-old creations and it was really hard to whittle the selection down to three Pinworthies.  It was a very close run thing!  But a team's gotta do what a team's gotta do, so here, without more ado and in no particular order, are our Pinworthy choices.

#7 Empire of the Cat

What a great mixed media technique to create that background, which looks like aged, mottled mercury glass - like a mirror which Marie Antoinette herself might have looked in!  And the gilding is perfect for the historical period look too.  You can see how it was done over at the Empire of the Cat blog.

#27 Henriette

A real labour of love this one - there's such attention to detail with the parchment scrolls, each of the glass bottles and jars aged and weathered in different ways, and every individual label distressed for an antique look.  There are lots of close-ups at Henriette's blog... it's well worth a visit to see all the effects.

#29 Susanne

Again, there are so many ageing effects and techniques here, but we particularly liked the scratched "metal" lettering and the crackled edging added to so many elements, really making them look as though they're being eaten away by time.  See how it was done over at Susanne's blog.

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Congratulations to all three Pinworthies.  You'll be receiving your badges shortly, and your projects will appear on our Pinterest board.

We're so grateful for all the amazing entries... honestly, there were so many which were entirely worthy of pinning, and I'm sure more than one of us has pinned them independently!  Thank you to everyone who played along.

We hope you'll be inspired to come and join us on the Vintage Journey again this month, with Sara Emily's Against The Grain theme.  Check out all the inspiration from the Creative Guides, and then let the woody creativity begin.  Happy crafting all!

Alison and the Creative Guides xx

Birthday Celebration Winners and Tag Friday Winner

We really enjoyed looking through all the birthday celebration winners posts, thank you to everyone who joined in and some of you who shared more than one project with us - that is sooooo supportive and we so appreciate the entries you all make. Thank you also for all birthday wishes you left for us on your blog posts.

So onto the three Pinworthy projects chosen by the Creative Guides and myself and you certainly made it difficult to narrow it down to just three, But after much deliberation these are the ones highlighted for this month and because you made it so difficult I made it four!


Kerstin

Hazel

Tracey

Irina

Unfortunately we are unable to choose a winner for the Tag Friday post due to a lack of entries. We hope that more will join in next time.

I would like to link back to our challenge post for April and ask you to share a project here focusing on "The Neutral Zone" where we are creating with the black, white, grey, beige, cream and brown colour palette. There are wonderful inspirational projects from the Creative Guides and a linky for you to add your project to. Inlinkz have changed their platform and ask you to register but they say you only have to ever do this once and in the future you will not have to repeat the process.

In the challenge post you can also read about a call out for anyone interested in maybe becoming a new Creative Guide - that might be you, so please do go take a look to see how you can find out more information about the role and please email me if you are interested.

Thanks for all the support we receive both in comments and entries and we look forward to another happy year of themes and wonderful creative projects.

hugs Brenda and the Creative Guides. xxx

Vintage picture courtesy of the Graphics Fairy

Get Sentimental Pinworthies

Hello!  Nikki here to share our Pinworthy choices with you from our challenge last month where we asked you to 'Get Sentimental'.  Thank you to everyone for the wonderful, diverse creations which made our job of picking just three very difficult.

It was wonderful to see how everyone used their 'sentiments' in such creative ways. The three selected pinworthies really matched their artwork to their words. In no particular order this months pinworthies are:

#11 Preeti 

A stunning journal page full of depth.

#12 Jo

A wonderful celebration of creativity and an event Jo attended.

#22 Amanda

A fabulously textured, layered triptych.

Congratulations to you all, your Pinworthy badges will be on their way to you shortly and your creations will be pinned to our Pinworthies board on Pinterest.

This month's challenge 'How can you resist' started last Friday and we look forward to seeing more creativity.

Nikki and the Creative Guides xx

Rusty and Crusty Winners and Pinworthies

What an amazing and diverse array of projects you entered in our April Rusty and Crusty Challenge!  Thanks to each and every one who participated or visited.  It was a difficult task indeed to narrow down to only three Pinworthy entries.  Somehow we managed! These are listed in order of entry.  Congratulations to...

#12.  Jannike G Larsson (SWE)

#20.  Susanne

#21.  Sammy Jean

Your fabulous projects will be pinned to our Vintage Journey Pinterest Board.

Thank you for taking the time to share your talents and creativity in our challenges, we hope everyone who entered will join us again for our current theme and challenge hosted by our own Alison, who has chosen the theme 'Words and Music'. You can see the details and fabulous inspiration from the Creative Guides - HERE.

We are honored to have our three February Pinworthies joining us today to share the incredible projects that they made for our current Words and Music challenge.  Please join us in welcoming Ann of aksbarchitect Creates, Jackie of Creating Without Crayons and Mona of Cupcake's Creations.

Ann

Hi, I am Ann from aksbarchitect CREATES. I live in Pennsylvania with my wonderful children and husband. Having always had a passion for art and design, I became an architect; and when motherhood took precedence over my profession, I began crafting with my children. My passion for creating has evolved, and currently I enjoy working with paper, fibers, and mixed media. I am so excited to share the project I created for A Vintage Journey's Words and Music challenge.

Coming off a winter season that has seemed to be never-ending this year, I knew in my heart that spring was on its way, the morning I awoke to the glorious sounds of birds singing. It brought joy to my heart and peace to my soul. This was the inspiration behind my "words and music" piece. I have created a panel covered with vintage sheet music that has been coated with vintage beeswax embossing powder to create a faux encaustic appearance. I fussy cut an image of birds on a branch and replaced the printed branch with a clipping from a real pussy willow.

I embedded a scrap of burlap along the left side of the panel, envisioning the birds gathering bits and fibers to create their nests for spring. Another clipping of pussy willow that has catkins, was attached on top of the burlap scrap. I added letters to form the words SING OF SPRING at the top along with a "DISCOVERIES" word band at the bottom.

I am so thankful for this opportunity to be a Pinworthy Guest for A Vintage Journey. If you are interested in seeing more details about this piece, please stop by my blog. I hope that you are inspired to create something for this month's challenge.

Jackie

Hello everyone! I am thrilled and honored to be here today as a Pinworthy Guest!

My name is Jackie P Neal and I am the owner of Creatingwithoutcrayons-JackiePNeal.com blog.  My blog is where I can share my art, engage with so many other like minded art souls around the world and share a bit of my everyday life.

A bit about me, I am a huge fan of recycling, especially finding "discards" to use in my artwork. Along with being a recycler, I am also a hoarder of vintage and art supplies, as I am sure many of you are as well! My husband and I and our dog Chum live on a small farmette in Upstate NewYork, sharing the same passions and living and loving life! Thank you Vintage Journey gang for having me here!

I was thrilled to learn this month's challenge was music, picked by Alison Bomber! Huge music fan here! I started out using a piece of packing board from stickers I had purchased, nothing goes to waste! This became my substrate and held up extremely well for the amount of layers of product I applied to it.

Learning to Fly, you may know there are two different songs with this title..I chose the one written and sung by Pink Floyd, one of my all time favorite bands. If you are not familiar with the song- here is the link

Again going to my stash of "discarded materials"I used this frame that I scored from a "free" box at a garage sale, no picture or glass, but I knew one day I would find the perfect project for this! 

So I attached my substrate to the frame and continued to add more product and completed the backside as a bit of a shadowbox vignette, using the clear plastic sheet that came in the stickers pack as well. For a list of materials and products as well as more detail, visit my blog. And again,thank you everyone!

Mona

Hi! My name is Mona Pendleton and I’m honored to be here today as a guest joining along with the talented A Vintage Journey design team! You can find my creativity on my blog: Cupcake’s Creations: (http://cupcakescreations.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/aint-no-sunshineguest-designing.html).

 I’m a girl who loves to be creative whenever I get the chance! Today I have a shabby style card to share featuring pretty music sheet patterned paper along with a stamped sentiment that reminds me of the song title, “Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone”.

I added lots of layers and distressed all the edges, to create a shabby vibe:

Please let me know if you have any questions :) 

Thanks for the awesome opportunity!

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Fabulous projects one and all, thank you so much for sharing them with us!  We hope that all of you have also been inspired to join our  Words and Music challenge.  We can't wait to see what you create!

Autumn, Deb and the rest of the Creative Guides

Treasure Winners

Wow what an amazing array of incredible projects you entered for our Birthday Treasure challenge. We have all been extremely challenged ourselves in trying to wheedle down a very long suggestion list to just three people to receive pinworthy mentions and badges. So without further ado lets see who ended up top of the list. These are listed in order of entry not in preference.

#26 Lys from Impression Scrap

#30 Evelyn from Evelyn´s bunte welt - Stempeln und mehr

#36 Ann Chuang from Ann Chuang Crafts

Congratulations ladies on being chosen as our Top 3 Pinworthy mentions for our Birthday Treasure Challenge. Your fabulous projects will be pinned to our Vintage Journey Pinterest Board.
Thank you for taking the time to share your talents and creativity in our challenges, we hope everyone who entered will join us again for our current theme and challenge hosted by the lovely Autumn which is called 'Rusty and Crusty'. You can see the details and fabulous inspiration from the Creative Guides - here.

We also threw open the challenge for you to join our Tag Friday link up party and nine fabulous tags appeared. This is the first time we've done this so we really appreciate those of you who came over to support. Tag Fridays seem to happen about four times a year and the next one will be in June so keep your eyes peeled for that one as you never know you could be spotlighted in the following winners post. Today though we are going to showcase this set of gorgeous tags entered by 

Preeti from My Ramblings on craft, counselling and more.

Congratulations on your Pinworthy Mention Preeti, your beautiful tags will also be pinned to our AVJ Pinterest Board.


And last but certainly not least, we have our three January Pinworthies joining us today to share their wonderful projects that they made for our current Rusty and Crusty challenge.  Please join us in welcoming Gina of Daydream Believer, Iris of Whimsytouches and Nate of The Scrap of Nate!

Gina

Hello everyone :)  My name is Gina, and I am thrilled to be invited to join the wonderfully creative crew at A Vintage Journey for this challenge.

I am a 50+ housewife who spends more time making a mess than cleaning up.  I have/will have a go at just about anything artsy and crafty, including fabric craft such as doll making and quilting.  In fact I resisted making a doll for this challenge...a "Rusty Crusty" clown doll sounded more suitable for Halloween lol 

Instead I turned to Mixed Media and created this Rusty Autumnal Panel.

I started with a dark background and a tree mask...

layers of acrylic paint and crackle glaze gave it a wonderfully textured surface.

I have posted a step by step on my own blog Daydream Believer if you would like to see more :D

Iris

Hello makers! I am so excited to be a Guest Creative Guide at Vintage Journey and share my collage piece. A little about me; I live in the Washington DC metro area and I am an Arts and Crafts Enthusiast. I have never met an art medium I did not like. I enjoy creating with clay, acrylic paint, inks, metallic waxes, texture medium, paper, and metal. I like sculpting, creating assemblages, collaging, altering bottles, and making jewelry. My style ranges from modern, vintage to Steampunk/Industrial.

I found this month's Rusty theme fun. It's always neat to create special effects on alternative surfaces, like metal effect on paper. For my project I wanted to go minimalist and made a sort of abstract vintage collage piece. I did not want to alter the ephemera, I just love everything original about it and wanted to preserve it, so I decided to collage it with rusty paper and metal embellishments. 

I used original court warrants/complaints papers from the 1920s. I got a bag full of these paper at an antique store a while back. I read them all; it was like reading the police blotter report on the town's folks, ooh! salacious. Why would people steal railroad spikes? Lol! Sorry, back to the project.

I glued the papers to an 8 x 8 inch canvas. I rusted pieces of chipboard, corrugated cardboard, meal embellishments using Modern Masters Iron paint and Patina oxidation process.

I glued the ephemera with Uhu glue stick, I like it because it's dry paste like nature will not lift the ink. For the rusty bits, I used wet glue because they are heavier. I darkened the edges of the canvas with Vintage Sepia Versafine ink.

I sealed the entire piece with Workable Fixative. It protects the rust and inks from rubbing off and won't alter your pieces. Quick tip, if you are going to paint over the collaged papers, use a gel medium instead. Painting over paper that's been adhered with a glue stick will greatly wrinkle the paper and possibly come off. I hope you like my project and happy rusting.

Nate

*** I have translated Nates original post from French to English with the help of on-line translators and my very poor high school French, hope that I have done it correctly Nate! ***

Bonjour à toutes, merci à vous merveilleuses équipe de A Vintage Journey de me recevoir une fois de plus a participer en tant qu' invitée pour ce défi d'avril .

Hello everyone, thank you to the you fine ladies of A Vintage Journey for asking me once again to participate as a guest for this April challenge.

Je suis NATE , j'aime scraper tout ce que je peux créer, je n'ai pas vraiment de styles déterminé une tendance pour le steampunk serait dominante.

I am NATE, I like scraping all that I can create, I really have no determined styles but a tendency to steampunk would be dominant.

Mon envie du moment pour le défi d'avril pour A Vintage Journey, mettre de la rouille! J'ai habillée ce vieux pinceau qui m'a bien servi j'ai décidée de lui donner une deuxième vie.

My desire at the moment for the April A Vintage Journey challenge is to apply some rust! I dressed this old brush which has served me well and decided to give it a second life.

J'ai commencée par coupé du carton qui me servira de support, j'ai passée du gesso puis de la pâte à structure pour le titre mémorie time , ensuite je me suis servie de poudre a embosser et de peinture décoArt pour avoir l'effet rouillé sur mes embellissements et sur le carton puis quelques tampons montres à la stazon .

I began by cutting cardboard which served as the support, then applied gesso and texture paste through a stencil for the title 'memorie time', then used embossing powder and DecoArt paint for the rusty effects on my embellishments and on the cardboard and then stamped some watches with Stazon.

Quelques détails.

Some details.

Un post détaillé est visible sur mon blog NATE , merci à vous.

A detailed post is visible on my NATE blog, thanks to you.


Fabulous projects one and all, thank you so much for sharing them with us.  Hope that all of you have also been inspired to join our Rusty And Crusty challenge, we can't wait to see what you create.

Brenda, Deb and the rest of the Creative Guides

Winter Wonderland Winner and Pinworthies

Hi Vintage Journey Travelers,

Thank you everyone who entered. We had a fabulous array of talent this month. 

Our winner chosen by random org is:

That's #70 Aimeslee Winans of Paper-Paisley's Art Adventures with this lovely Artist Post Card featuring vintage German scrap images.

Congratulations Aimeslee!  We'll be in touch shortly with your winner's badge and details of your sponsor prize from the fabulous Andy Skinner.

We had so many wonderful entries this month that it was very difficult for the team to decide on our Pinworthy winners but here are the results. 

Our talented winners are:

Toni of Artistic Craft Dabbler 

https://craftdabbler-toni.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/festive-stamps-and-stencils-stamps-and.html

Nicola of Paper Profusion

https://paperprofusion.blogspot.ie/2017/12/merry-christmas.html

Christine of Crafty Endeavours

http://craftyfield.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/glistening-snow-and-winter-trees.html

Huge congratulations to our three Pinworthies this month, you really did create the most wonderful Winter Wonderlands. We will contact you shortly regarding your Pinworthy badge. 

We hope you will visit again on Monday for our regular Destination Inspiration post, using the contents of the monthly travel bag, and we hope too, that you will join in our current challenge - Think Inside Or Outside The Box, details of which can be found HERE.

Wishing you a creative weekend,

S@ndy and the Creative Guides 

September Altered Art Winner and Pinworthies

Hello all!  Well, you made our lives very difficult again by sharing so much amazing Altered Art for last month's challenge.  Thank you all for joining us on the journey.  The Creative Guides enjoyed visiting each and every one of your creations, and it was a hard task to whittle our choice down to just three officially Pinworthy projects.
You're all worthy of pinning!

First of all, the easier - and very pleasurable - task of announcing our randomly drawn winner of last month's prize sponsored by Simon Says Stamp.  The Random Generator gets to do this job, and here's the selected number:

That's Remya at Curls'n'Twirls who shared this fabulous spread from
her recycled cardboard art journal.

Beautiful work, Remya, and congratulations.  We'll be in touch shortly with your winner's badge and the details of how to collect your prize.

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Now on to our three Pinworthy choices.  Since the challenge was Altered Art, I'm sharing some "before" photos as well as the finished projects, so that you can see how impressive the altering was!  In order of entry number, but otherwise in no particular order, they are...

#33 Lula at u Luli

Just look at the extraordinary transformation of this unassuming alarm clock into a steampunk masterpiece.  Lula took a really imaginative leap with this one, and it's full of brilliant details from every angle.

Do hop over to Lula's blog to see the full details.



#34 Pooja at Let's Get Crafty

Not only did Pooja use a pizza box as the substrate and lots of clothes labels and tags to build the layers, but she took apart a metal candle-holder to build the structure at the heart of her mixed media creation.

It's well worth visiting Pooja's blog to see the altering in action.



#36 Hélène a.k.a. 2amScrapper at Lotsa Scrap

A fantastic substrate here - Hélène has altered a specially chosen licence plate which has information related to her own life already on it, and created a rusty masterpiece full of personal meaning.

Take a trip over to Hélène's blog to find out more.

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Congratulations to all our Pinworthies this month - fantastic projects all round.  We'll be in touch shortly with your badges and an invitation to join us here at A Vintage Journey as a Guest Creative Guide in the future.

Once again, thank you to everybody who joined in with the challenge, and we hope you'll be inspired to come and play along this month in Jennie's wonderful Crazy For Autumn Colour theme, sponsored by the amazing Calico Craft Parts.

Join us on Monday to see who's arriving next at Destination Inspiration but, for now, have a great weekend and happy crafting all!

Alison and the Creative Guides x