Tag Friday

Welcome to A Vintage Journey and this month there are five Fridays which means we have the opportunity to slip in a Tag Friday event. These are always very popular with the Creative Guides as it's an anything goes theme for them. I hope you will enjoy looking at their fabulous creations and I am sure you will find some inspiration to spark off your creativity this weekend.

Julie

With the Holiday Season in full swing I decided to make a tag which captured a holiday memory for this young couple in the photograph from Tim's Photo Booth pack. Please pop over HERE to Juliz Design Post to see more details on my tag.

Nikki

I needed to make a birthday card for my niece so decided to have a play with Tim's Scribbles and Splats thinlits. I have used them both as a die and a stamp on this tag card. More details over at Addicted to Art today.

Alison

I usually use Tag Friday as an excuse to go back to my first love - some simple inking and stamping.  I've been playing with a combination of new colours - Mermaid Lagoon, Twisted Citron and Hickory Smoke and, as you can see, there's a bit more to it this time.  If you'd like to find out why, do come over to Words and Pictures for some more details.

Jennie

I normally like a Tag Friday to try something experimental, but I am afraid all my old favourites are on this one! The fabulous Papillon background stamp, Tattered Florals flowers and my favourite distress inks - Victorian Velvet, Seedless Preserves and Vintage Photo. Hop on over to my blog if you would like to see more.

Trace

So for my tag today I have used all my Tim Holtz favourites , walnut stain, layering stencils, found relatives, plenty of idea-ology and all those yummy browns and greys that are firm favourites ..with the addition of the new hickory smoke...a yummy new addition to the distress palette. For all the details please hop over to inkypinkycraft . trace x

Jenny

In preparation for an upcoming visit to Paris I've made a start on creating elements to go inside a Large Portfolio and this tag will be one of those. My version of Tim's July 2015 tag challenge took it's own path as I followed his instructions and ended up with an imagined interpretation on the look of Paris in the evening rain... see more on my blog.

Annie 

Hi everyone....today I am sharing a tag using Tim's Paint Resist technique from Creative Chemistry 102. I didn't manage to complete this course but I love the fact that you can join/access it at any time ( as long as you remember your ID and password :-)

I also used Tim's Tattered Florals die as well as the Lattice, Frameworks die and the word beautiful is from Tim's Thinlits die set called Love. For more details you can click on my name above, which will take you to my blog x

Brenda

I recently did a tutorial at Bumblebees and Butterflies on how to create both a rusty patina effect and a galvanised tin effect using distressed products and I cut this rusty watering can to show how it looked when used for part of a project. 

Tag Friday was a great opportunity to make a home for the watering can and use more of Tim's gorgeous goodies.

Thanks for joining us and taking time to view our tags, I think you will agree you have a wonderful array of styles and designs to look at and if you press on people's personal names or their highlighted blog names you will be transported over to see what techniques and products they have used as well.

Because this is a five week month it means you still have another week in which to join in with our current 'Destinations' challenge, we have some fabulous entries but we would love to see some more.

Have a great weekend.

hugs Brenda and the Team xxx

Departing Destination Inspiration Terminal 4

Hello & Happy Monday!!  It's me Shari (Ain't That Artsy Fartsy), and today, I'm your AVJ Creative Guide greeting you at Terminal 4 of this month's Destination Inspiration.  I've got just the barest of creative necessities packed in my overnight bag--

Product:  Any "Classics" Stamps

Technique: Shabby Chic - CC Vol 1 - Page 49

Color: Antique Linen

Substrate: Tag

 

--Let me show you how I used this month's DI 'Tim' essentials to create my tag. 

 

 I'm using a jumbo manila tag as my substrate which I have spritzed liberally with Antique Linen Distress Spray Stain. 

 

I applied WV Textured Crackle Paste onto the tag through the Flourishes Layering Stencil.  When the crackle was dry, I spritzed the surface with more Antique Linen DSS. 

 

We're using Tim's "Shabby Chic" technique found in his Compendium of Curiosities 1 and I'm using it with Tim's Classics #6 stamp set. 

 

I stamped this image onto black card stock with Distress Embossing Ink and covered with clear embossing powder then heat set. 

I rubbed Antique Linen Distress Paint over the embossed surface and let set, but not dry completely.  I then used a damp cloth and light hand to gently rub off the paint from the embossed areas. 

 

 I cut the scalloped border into petal shapes and curled around a pen barrel to help shape them and I edged each petal with Black Soot DP. 

 

 I hot glued the Shabby Chic petals together then hot glued a classic accoutrement in the center.  I let the hot glue set, then pinched and pushed the petals to give them a bit more shape.

I created the leaves for the Shabby Chic flowers out of pieces of cotton twill.  



I'm using one of Tim's Found Relatives cards for my focal image on this tag.  I lightly sanded the edges of the card then tinted her dress with my Antique Linen DM and her corsage with my Victorian Velvet DM.  When dry, I distressed the edges with my paper distresser then inked with Vintage Photo DI and my ink blending tool. 

 

I gave this lovely Found Relative a crackly heart to hold.  I had colored a piece of manila stock with Barn Door DP and heat set.  Then I spread a layer of Antique Linen Distress Stain tinted Textured Crackle Paste over the painted surface and let air dry.  When dry, I used a little heart punch to create the heart, edged with Black Soot DI then coated with Diamond Glaze. 

 

I added die cut ATC corners to the card then adhered onto the tag with matte Decou-Page.  I ran the tag through my sewing machine to add the stitching around the perimeter and along a couple of the edges of the Found Relative card. 

 

I cut apart a Small Talk sticker and attached to the Found Relative card.  I outlined with the fine tip of my Black Soot DM and my white gel pen. 

 

I distressed the edges of the tag with my paper distresser and inked with Black Soot DI and my ink blending tool.  I attached a Word Band to the tag with brads, hot glued the Shabby Chic flowers and leaves into place, then flicked Antique Linen over the surface with a paint brush.  It needed a little something more, so I spritzed Black Soot DM through my air art tool here and there and heat set. 

I hope you've enjoyed this leg of the creative journey we here at A Vintage Journey call, "Destination Inspiration".  I'm having the best time sharing this month's travel with Chris, Julie and Jenny.  We are now off to meet up with one more of our Creative Guides at Terminal 5--You'll have to meet us here next Monday to see who our 5th companion will be and what she's 'packed' using all of our Tim travel essentials! 

XOXO-Shari



Welcome special guest Cheryl Grigsby

Welcome everyone, we have another incredible Guest Creative Guide today who is sharing her amazing talent. Cheryl designs and creates the most fabulous projects and has kindly accepted our offer to share something today, let's take a look ...........

Destinations....  What a universal and inspiring theme!!

I was so thrilled to be invited as a Guest Creative Guide for A Vintage Journey!!  Thanks to Brenda, Terry Ann, Nikki and all the VJ team for the honor and for the creative challenge. One of the phrases from Tim Holtz Simple Talk sticker set is “out of limitations comes creativity” which I find completely true.  A “limitation” in the form of a theme, a defined challenge, a palette of colors, mediums, tools or embellishments that must be used in a project provide a beginning and set a range that tempt one to sneak over those lines.  Pablo Picasso said, “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

Cheryl Grigsby
cherylspaperartz.blogspot.com

I was born and raised in Texas and in 1997 moved to Colorado with my husband and children.  Its hard for a Texan to leave, but honestly, we were moving to an amazing place!!  Estes Park, Colorado is the gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park. Who could complain about living in such a wonderland?  Still, my heart has always been torn and tugged between two places I loved.  “Destinations” gave me a pondering place to consider destinations not as a distant place but rather a place to return.  Destination: home.