Tag Friday

Welcome to weekend eve and as January is a five week month we have the ever popular tag Friday post for you. There are no restrictions or themes for this event so the Creative Guides just have fun putting together a tag of their choice. Let's see what they have for you to feast your eyes on today.

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Deb

This tag started out as a stencil monoprint mop up that I'd made in December while making my version of Tim Holtz's December 12 Tags of 2015.  I had used Tim's Poinsettia layering stencil and the flowers and red colour immediately reminded me of a valentine, so I added a cascade of hearts to complete the Valentine's Day trifecta!  Come on over to my blog for all the details.

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Jennie

I am sharing my January Tim Tag for our Tag Friday showcase. I had great fun changing around the colours and experimenting with the techniques on linen cardstock to create a totally different feel. Please join me on my blog if you would like to see some more details.

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S@ndy
 

Travel is what's on my mind with this tag that is serving double duty.  It's also my Tim tag for January and it is packed with lots of Tim goodness.  I added the #7 at the top of the band because that is the month we will be enjoying our big adventure.

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Brenda

Having been doing lots of journalling and creating in bright colours recently I wanted to get back to some vintage collage. Using Tim's papers, photo booth picture, distress sprays and some ideaology combined with a mixed media background -  this just appeared and I'm really quite happy with it. I hope you like it too.

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Alison

Often I use Tag Friday as an excuse to play with my favourite colours and stamps.  This time I used it as a nudge to experiment with a slightly different style and colour scheme.  If you'd like to check out some of the influences and see a few more details, do come and visit Words and Pictures.

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Amanda

My tag was born out of my love of facial imagery and expression, especially the eyes, as they truly are the windows to the soul. If you would like to see how I created this tag there are more details on my blog.

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Nikki
 

I was short on time for this tag so I raided my scraps box and found some mop up tags and inky scraps. These scraps are great for using with punches which I used for my flowers, twigs and leaves. There are more details today at Addicted to Art.

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What a dose of inspiration if you need one. My thanks to all the fabulous team members who have contributed to the TF post for January. I was just checking the calendar and we only have four more for the rest of the year so keep your eyes open for them.

Have a great weekend and enjoy whatever you have planned.

hugs Brenda and the Creative Guides. xxx

Welcome Nicole

It's another Friday Guest day today and what a fabulous artist and project we have for you. Let's get straight over to see what's in store.

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Hello Travellers I am thrilled to be back on A Vintage Journey to bring you today's tour!  

Let me start by welcoming you and I'm Nicole, creative travelling blogger of Nicole Wright Designs.  There is a lot to see on today's tour and I'm all about the photo's.  Let's head off and create some inspiration on this Passport Journey.

I started off with Sizzix Designer Eileen Hull's Passport Scoreboard die, Tim Holtz Vintage Market XL Die and the mini movers and shapers airplane.

This is my first time creating with the passport die and ya, that was so fun and messy!

I created a leather passport book using vintage photo distress spray stain, ground espresso distress ink and Kraft Glassine.  Add a coat of clear rock candy distress crackle and that leather look is achieved.

I have some awesome vintage looking leather luggage.  This tag comes on the bags.  I thought it would look awesome!  Love it...

I cut the "TRAVEL" and mini airplane on mat board then I grunged it up.  I used 8x8 Collage Paper Stash for the pages and some Ephemera. 

Each piece of Ephemera is coated with Ranger's Glue n' Seal.  Once dried I used Black Soot Distress marker on the edges then smudge.  This really grunges the pages up.

I stamped the inside of each page and the books covers using the Ledger Script stamp.  I left the pages empty.  

This world traveller is heading for Europe in a couple of weeks.  I thought it would be nice to add some tickets, photos and who knows what when I get back.

I hope you enjoyed my Vintage Travel Passport Book!  Thank you to the AVJ Team for including me!  I am always thrilled to be asked.  It's always fun to see what creative inspiration they create to share.  

Thanks for joining me on my tour.  I look forward to new adventures and filling this book up with memories.

Cheers

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Wow thanks Nicole what a fabulous project to add along side all the others we have seen over the last few weeks and thank you so much for taking the time to create such a fabulous post too.

Nicole has not long been back from the CHA trade show in Anaheim USA and whilst there she launched her own stamps, Fallen Blossom and Upstream.  They are her own drawings so they have that sketchy look and they will be availible in February. Congratulations Nicole that is such good news and we wish you all the success in the world with the new venture.

Well that's us for another week, we look forward to seeing you again on Monday when we have another stop at the Destination Inspiration post. 

See you there and have a fabulous weekend.

hugs Brenda and the Creative Guides. xxx

A Vintage Happy New Year and new challenge

Here we are at the start of 2016 and wishing you all

A HAPPY NEW YEAR

which we hope will be full of love, peace and happiness plus a touch of creativity of course.

The lovely Julie originally chose this theme but it is my turn to host and to start 2016 with -

VINTAGE TRAVEL AND LUGGAGE

 " Let your imagination carry you back to the bygone eras setting off on an exciting journey for the New Year. Keeping it in Tim's style, we would love to see what item of luggage or mode of transport you would use on your journey, eg - think hand luggage, travel trunks, hat boxes, hot air balloons, ships and trains". 

The Creative Guides have had great fun with this one and are showing how diverse you can be in interpeting the theme. So without further ado let's see what they have for your inspiration.

Annie 

I loved creating this easel card for Brenda's "Vintage Travel and Luggage" theme.

You can see that I have used several of Tim Holtz stamp sets and a die by Marianne........the card was for a 60th birthday celebration and after photographing was personalised. I look forward to viewing your entries x

Happy New Year............. xx

Anne

I would love to have lived in a bygone era and perhaps traveled on the original Orient Express but since the Tim Holtz stamp I used features a North American steam engine, I will have to settle for a trip I did a few years back, up the western seaboard of Canada, on one of these beautiful trains.  You can see more here on my blog.

Jennie

I have had this little paper mache trunk for absolutely ages and decided that now was the time to alter it for our fabulous vintage travel challenge. I've used a lot of different techniques to create the vintage crackled look on the trunk and the grungeboard embellishments, so if you would like to know more then please join me over on my blog.

Nikki

For this theme I have created a shadow box with an Andy Warhol influence - repeating imagery with varying colours. Purely an aesthetic influence however, I have lost all his cultural references. I have distressed my imagery and frame to add to the vintage feel. There is more detail today over at Addicted to Art.

Julia

For Brenda's challenge - I made a travel satchel for the lady traveling on her own to keep those special items she might need with her at all times apart from her stored trunks - to hold perhaps some change for tipping the luggage handlers, some blush for her cheeks, her ever present embroidered handkerchief and a journal to record the details of her trip!  I used two prints of Tim's Eclectic Element fabrics for my satchel and added a luggage tag decorated with Remnant Rubs, Chit Chat Stickers and a Pocket Card.  My satchel is reversible with 6 pockets on one of the sides.

If  you would like to see the details of my travel satchel including the reversible side with pockets, please stop by my blog!

Jenny

Christmas cards completed for another year, and now it's already time to start on creating another year's worth of birthday cards for family and friends. Travel is always a great theme for male cards and for this one I was inspired by the adventures of UK astronaut Tim Peake, now circling above us in the International Space Station. It took a bit of messing around with Distress Paints and other stuff to get a real vintage look into space; find out more about it on my blog.

S@ndy

What a perfect theme for this challenge as we are planning a big trip later this year.  I made this travel notebook, using lots if Tim goodies, for keeping all those important things such as tickets, photos and small keepsakes. It is filled with pockets to keep everything in one place while traveling and once we return home.  Hope you will stop by my blog My "Crafty" Life on the Internet to see all the details.


Brenda

For me one of the essential items that this lovely lady would pack for her journey would be a diary in which to note down where she visits and to collect small items and photos to stick in as a memento of her trip. I used the folded note book technique using one 12 x 12 sheet of Tim's paper to make the mini book and added some stamped items and small tags in pockets so there is plenty of room on which to write and stick.


Thank you to everyone who joined us for the previous challenge it was lovely to see so many entries and to spend some time visiting your blogs. We hope you will join us for our new challenge theme and we look forward to your comments and projects to come.

Once more have a wonderful new year ahead.

hugs Brenda and the Creative Guides. xxxx