Pinworthy Guests - Going Round in Circles

Hi everyone, Nikki here to welcome and introduce our Pinworthy guests this month. Today we welcome our October winners to share a creation on our current theme - Going Round in Circles. Please welcome Leslie and Nicole! 

Leslie Lineberry

Hello everyone, I am Leslie Lineberry from the state of Montana in the USA. I am absolutely thrilled and honoured to have this opportunity to be a Pinworthy Guest for Vintage Journey.

I am fairly new to Mixed Media, but not to creating. I would described myself as a 'Hobby Hoarder' because over the years, I have painted in oil, acrylic and watercolor; done batik, quilling, beadwork and polymer clay - just to name a few. With Mixed Media/Assemblage Art, I've been able to put it all together and I feel like I've finally arrived where my artistic soul was trying to take me!

I love this month's challenge theme, Going Round in Circles. My contribution, Space Junk Galaxy, is an assemblage canvas featuring a spinning circle in space of all the little things that come up missing in our everyday lives, like a sock in the dryer, keys, buttons and all sorts of other odds and ends.

After covering the canvas with black gesso, texture paste and crackle medium, I cut a spiral out of paper to use as reference for adding my 'space junk'. Before adding color, the entire assemblage was coated again in black gesso.

Each corner of the canvas has a different 'gauge' such as a Lost & Found and a compass. I created these from wood circles which I stencilled, textured and embellished.

Adding all the 'goodies' took ages, but I do love picking through all my random bits and pieces and organising them on a canvas. Caught is this interstellar circle, you will find nuts and bolts; flowers, shells and screws; stars, wire, beads and buttons.

If you would like to see detailed information on how I created this canvas, please visit my blog at

www.artfordinner.gallery/blog

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Nicole Wright

Nicole here from Nicole Wright Designs, hello travellers... I'm back! I am thrilled the AVJ Team is having me back as a guest. I have been around the blogger merry go round for awhile and I love to make a mess. Currently I design for Sizzix, Eileen Hull and Creative Scrapbooker Magazine in Canada. I love long walks in the snow and living in a very cold snowy part of the world. 

Thrilled to create for the Going Round in Circles for this month. I created this masculine canvas using Magenta Nuance Powder Dyes, Distress Paint, Gesso and Embossing Powders.

I created a focal point painting a large circle with gesso and stamping! 

Check it out, I used my cap from my distress paint to make some circles. The eraser on a pencil is another great circle option too.

Want to see more detail for this project? Stop by Nicole Wright Designs for a full tutorial on how I created this canvas, what products I used and Sizzix dies.

Always a pleasure AVJ Travellers.

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Wow! I will be heading over to both Leslie and Nicole's blogs for more details on these fabulous projects - love all Leslie's details and wonderful design and Nicole's clever arrangement and grungy feel.

We love to welcome guests here at A Vintage Journey - so do enter this month's challenge for a chance to be a future guest and to win our random winner prize.

Nikki

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Going Round in Circles

Welcome to 2017 and our first challenge of the new year.

Going Round in Circles

Actually that is how I felt before Christmas with so much going on but all has calmed down a bit now. So what can you do to join in our challenge? Here is our description for this month -

Whether large or small, 2d or 3d, clock face embellishments, buttons, eyelets or created with paint pot lids, stamped, stencilled, doodled or finger painted let’s see what gets you going round in circles. This challenge theme particularly fits with the art journaling style we love to see but can also be incorporated into a vintage; shabby; mixed-media; industrial or steampunk project.

Now I think you'll agree that leaves it wide open for you to join in and apart from the theme please check the travelling instructions in the side bar which outlines what we look for when choosing our winner and pinworthy mentions. Most importantly we look to see vintage; shabby; mixed-media; art journaling; industrial, timeworn and steampunk genres, if you comply with one of those you are almost certainly going to be eligible to join in, but just check it out to make sure you have covered the other elements as well.

So now let's pop over to see what the Creative Guides have made to whet your appetite, to stir your imagination and inspire you to take part oh and there is always a prize for the winner and for January we have a fabulous sponsor -

The Funkie Junkie Boutique

with a $25 Voucher up for grabs.

So what are you waiting for, let's see how you have included circles in your project.

Nikki

I planned at the beginning of 2016 to find time to do more in my art journals - a goal I actually achieved! I do love geometric shapes in my art and this theme is just perfect for journal pages. Be lovely to see you at Addicted to Art today for more details.

Jennie

I am a great lover of paper clay and button moulds and I decided to use a whole heap of them for my project for this month's fabulous challenge.  I love the way the paper clay buttons have taken the pigments and the resulting piece is very light weight.  Hop on over and join me at Live The Dream if you would like more details.

Tracy

I opted for a book for my first challenge piece of 2017, using Eileen Hull's Passport Book Die. Circles are abundant inside and outside the book. Pop by my BLOG to 'go around in circles'.

Deb

For our Going Round In Circles challenge this month, I created a mixed media home decor plaque representing the perpetual circling of the seasons.  With Christmas and New Years behind us my thoughts are already turning to Spring and so this piece was created with that in mind.  I've a few step out photos on my blog on how I made it, hope to see you there!

Alison 

I've been playing in my small journal (this spread is 7 x 5.5 inches in total), and using book page circles, gesso and salt to create these layered pages.  I hope you'll be able to come round to Words and Pictures to check out the close-up textures and details.

Annie

Hi everyone...I decided to incorporate a Journalling meets Vintage/Shabby Chic style for my CG project. I used inks, paints, stencils, stamps, bottle caps, credit cards to create a journalling background on the die cut circles, then decorated with some ribbon flowers, pearls and other finds.

For more details and photographs, please pop over to my blog HERE

S@ndy

I love this challenge, I got a chance to make a birthday card for a friend and use some of my favorite dies as well as a big helping of glitter.  Hope you will stop my blog here to see more details.


Brenda

To get me going this year I thought I would use one of the canvas boards I so love with my acrylic paints and have fun mixed-media style. I've used stencils, stamps, embellishments and collage with patterned papers to create this design and the steps are all over at Bumblebees and Butterflies if you'd like to see how I created it.


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My huge thanks to the amazing Creative Guides who have taken part with their wonderfully inspiring projects. So if you'd like to join in and have fun with circles please link your project below so we can come and see more of it on your blog.

Happy weekend.

hugs Brenda and the Team xxx

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