Our latest Challenge Winner

 

In fact our first ever challenge winner at A Vintage Journey.

 

The second Friday in our fortnightly calendar is when we announce the Creative Guides’ chosen winner of the previous challenge and today it is with great pleasure to announce that this is …..

 

Nicola

at Paper Profusion

This entry had us all feeling well prepared for the journey with these amazing suitcases in which to pack our goodies.
Strapped and tagged we are ready to go. 

What an inspirational idea let alone a fantastic project.These are the epitome of a stack of old cases you can see on the station of any train museum and have been cleverly altered both inside and out. If you haven’t had the chance to see Nicola’s post then I do urge you to go and check it out as there are loads more photos and a great process step by step for you to read.

Thanks Nicola for creating and sharing these wonderful cases with us for our first challenge and congratulations on being the first Traveller to gain the Winner’s badge. You will soon receive notification of your prize which is a £10 voucher to spend in-store at Country View Crafts.

 

Thank you also to everyone else who joined us on this first stage of our Vintage Journey, we so loved looking through all your amazing projects and I have to say you made it so very difficult for us to whittle down all of them to just one, but we got there in the end.

 

Don’t forget we are already half way through the second challenge where the lovely Alison is challenging you all to use words in your projects, but please read the Travelling Instructions as we found several people had eliminated themselves from the chance to win the prize as they hadn’t read the instructions and followed them. We will check they have been followed to ensure fairness to all those who have read them and do comply.

 

Have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to catching up with you again on Monday.

 

hugs Brenda and the AVJ team

xxxxx

 

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Larry Bird

Creative Guide Guest for challenge #1

Today we have our very first guest to ‘A Vintage Journey’ and we are so pleased to welcome someone who not only loves the vintage style but also all things Tim. I am very pleased and proud to introduce -

Kaz Hall from ‘A Little Shabby Shed’

From a very early age I have always been creative, "growing up with  little money I was always looking to create something out of nothing" I can remember spending a lot of time with my grandma who taught me how to sew on her old singer sewing machine.....this was where my love of all things vintage started! (I still use the very same  sewing machine today in my work) I am a self confessed hoarder of things, stuff, junk... I have a passion for all things vintage and love to incorporate my vintage finds with my love of distress products into my work.

          I am incredibly proud to be a Certified Ranger Educator and have created projects for Ranger ink, Tim Holtz and Dyan Reaveley. My work has been published in Somerset Gallery, Craft stamper and most recently I contributed projects for Tim's new book The Compendium of Curiosities 3.  I design and create from my" Little Shabby Shed" which is my special creative place in my garden.

Kaz’s project today depicts her very vintage style and has introduced a pop of colour too.

I am sure you will agree that this is a fabulous project, rich in vintage style and images and beautifully designed. All of us at A Vintage Journey would like to congratulate Kaz on having some of her work published in the new Compendium of Curiosities III by Tim Holtz, what a huge achievement and one she is very proud of.

To find out more details about Kaz’s project please pop over to her blog and visit her at her little shabby shed.

Thanks Kaz I hope you will join us again sometime to share your wonderful vintage talent.

There are still five more days for you to enter our first challenge ‘Anything Tim’.
I would really recommend you read the Travelling Instructions so that you do not make your entry non-compliant and please turn off comment moderation if you would like a comment left on your project.

Have a great week everyone.

hugs Brenda xx

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