October Destination Inspiration - Arriving at Terminal #4

Hello, everyone!  Julia here to welcome you to A Vintage Journey's Destination Inspiration for October.
Today we have arrived at Terminal #4!
The contents of our travel bags for this month are:

Product - Crackle Paint/Paste

Technique - Die Cutting

Colour - Any Fall colours you fancy

Substrate - Corrugated Card

With the supplies in my travel bag, I created a fall pumpkin patch decoration with a harvest moon overhead!

Here are a few photos of how I created this.  I took some real fall leaves that I picked up on a walk recently, they were lovely fall colors or orange, red and yellow but I knew they wouldn't last so I pressed Versamark ink onto them and embossed them with a mixture of tan, cranberry and brown embossing powders to hopefully preserve them.

For my base, I took a thin slice of an aspen branch that Kent had cut for me some time ago, and cut a piece of corrugated cardboard to fit over the top.  I ripped off most of the top to expose the corrugation.

I covered the cardboard with Finnabair White Crackle Texture Paste and let it dry overnight.  Then I sprinkled Infusions Sleight Blue and Green Man from PaperArtsy over the crackle and spritzed with water to activate the colors.  There was still a lot of white showing, so I rubbed some Forest Moss Distress Ink on my craft mat, spritzed with water, and painted the color over the base.

I wasn't exactly sure what I was trying to make it look like -  but felt at this point it rather looked like tilled soil in the pumpkin patch so I was happy with it!

I recently purchased this lovely To the Moon stamp set from Altenew and knew it would be perfect to use to create my big harvest moon over the pumpkin patch.  I die cut the circle twice and stamped both pieces with the 3 layers for the moon.  I used Soft Stone for the base color, Orange Zest for the first crater stamp and Smokey Shadow for the 3rd layer.  Then I sponged the edges with Distress Carved Pumpkin to really make it a bright fall moon.  I curled a wire over a pen and attached one end between the tree base and the corrugated piece and the other end between the two pieces of the moon and it stood up brilliantly - just as I hoped it would!

To add another die cut to my project -  I cut a fence out of  corrugated cardboard using Tim's On The Fence die.  I colored the fence with Infusions Green Man and spritzed with water. 

(Green Man seems to be mostly blue!?! maybe because I used it on the brown cardboard?)

I adhered the fence around the back edge of the base, adding some Idea-ology Small Talk/Occasions stickers to the fence and around the front of the base that I sponged with Distress Carved Pumpkin Ink.

I adhered my leaves to the base along with Idea-ology Pumpkin Pieces and Mini Pumpkins.  I added little pieces of cinnamon sticks as stems for the Mini Pumpkins.

I just love this little pumpkin patch - no matter what angle I look at it from!

In case you missed the previous October Terminal stops -

See Anne's project  at Terminal #1

See Alison's  project at Terminal #2

See Sandy's project at Terminal #3

 

I hope you have enjoyed your stop at Terminal #4 and that you will join in Jennie's wonderful A Vintage Journey challenge this month - Crazy for Autumn Colour which you can find HERE.
 

Stamps:  To the Moon - Altenew

Paper:  white - PTI, Corrugated Cardboard from a package.

Ink:  Soft Stone, Orange Zest, Smokey Shadow - Papertrey Ink, Ranger Distress Carved Pumpkin and Forest Moss, Versamark.

Accessories:  On the Fence Die - Tim Holtz/Alterations, Big World Die - Altenew, real maple leaves, slice of aspen branch,  Ranger Distress Tan and Brown Embossing Powders, Adirondack Cranberry Embossing Powder, heat tool, Idea-ology Pumpkin Pieces, Small Talk Stickers/Occasions, Mini Pumpkins, white Crackle texture Paste - Finnabair/Art Extravagance, palette knife, Tom Bow Glue, black wire, small pieces of cinnamon sticks, Infusion Colored Stains Sleight Blue and Green Man - PaperArtsy.

We have a returning guest today ..........................

It's always so wonderful when incredible artists return to be a guest again for us and today we have the amazing ...........

Marjie Kemper with us.

Marjie has been creating and blogging for quite a few years and as a blogger myself it's been fabulous watching her art and designs change and see her become so active and create a business for herself in this challenging world we live in. She teaches across America and has an online workshop too, she has been published in many publications and has become very well known in the industry.
Over to Marjie to introduce herself and share her project for today.

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Hi, everyone. Marjie Kemper, here. It's a pleasure to be your guest today at A Vintage Journey!  I adore mixed media art and am honored to be with you.  My passions are art making, teaching classes, and running my own small business, and I'm currently working on new online courses that will address all of these topics. You can find me on my website and any of the social platforms.

When I heard Jennie's theme was "Crazy for Autumn Colors," I knew I'd be reaching immediately for my Distress Oxide inks. Our fall is coming late this year in New York, so I've created my own burst of fall color with this project.

I've used a combination of materials on this one. The base is one of Tim Holtz's shadow boxes.

After inking up all the tags with a variety of Distress Oxide inks, I added interest with stencils and an ink blending tool.

Once all the tags were dry, I cut up some of the them, diecut others, and stamped on a few as well. 

I used the same inking and stenciling on a larger piece of manila card for the base, and I tried to keep this in a light/bright color pattern.

I used several pieces of cardboard to support my tag, so it appears to be 3-D in the box.

The top and bottom accents on this tag are from a Pediments Sizzix die. I've used metal accents and chit chat stickers to jazz it up.

I've created a Distress Ink Blending Checklist that I'd love to share with you. As you know, Distress Oxides are unique in that they are a combination of dye and pigment inks. This checklist is a basic guideline on color blending, which I do the same way with both Distress Oxides and regular Distress Inks. Pop on over to my blog for a copy if you'd find that useful.

Have a wonderful day!

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Oh Yes it's a wonderful day spending some time looking at these gorgeous tags Marjie and how you have cut them and designed this beautiful box. The autumnal hues fit the challenge brief perfectly and what a glorious mix of rich and golden tones you have produced. Thank you so much for making the time to share your incredible talent with us here at A Vintage Journey and making such a superb project.

I hope you, our lovely readers, will take a moment to pop over to Marjie's blog and see both this and all her other work, I shall also be looking for the Blending Checklist, I find little aide memoirs and checklist tools such great things to keep to look at time and again when I'm working with those particular products.

The 'Crazy for Autumn Colours' is still running for another week and it's such a pleasure to see and get to visit so many brilliant entries already linked up, I hope you can join in if you haven't already.

Enjoy these autumn days while we have them here in the northern hemisphere, it seems the season has started a little late but the colours are now looking stunning.

Enjoy the weekend and any creative time you have planned.

hugs Brenda and the Creative Guides. xxx

Destination Inspiration - Arriving at Terminal 3

Welcome vintage travelers, it's S@ndy here waiting for you at Terminal 3 for our next Destination Inspiration.  For this month we have some wonderful things to work with in our travel bag so let's take a look.  

Crackle Paint or Paste

Die Cutting

Fall Colours

Corrugated Cardboard

We have had some great inspiration earlier this month from Anne and Alison, thank you ladies.

I love fall and all the images and colours that go along with it so I just had to use a pumpkin.

Here's how I made it so let's get started-

This is a 10" square canvas that, truthfully, I had in my stash from another project that I started but never finished.  This time it got used for a completed project.  When I found it, it looked like the photo below.