It's our 4th Birthday - come celebrate.

Welcome to you all, let's celebrate our 4th birthday with a fabulous theme for March.

'TREASURE'

Treasure can be described as wealth or riches we store or accumulate, a collection of valuable, interesting or useful things, bits and pieces we highly value, articles that we hang onto that we’ve bought or found and might never be able to purchase again. 

What is in your crafty or artsy treasure trove - those items we squirrel away to keep for something special? Maybe some elegant embellishments, that hoard of ephemera or memorabilia found in a junk shop, a tin of old buttons, rusty keys or diamanté jewels, a paper pad you get out and stroke then put away again, some beautiful fabric or lace you can’t bear to part with. 

We invite you in this challenge to share a project that includes a part of your treasure trove, just let us know what it is so we can see it and comment on it and remember our focus styles and genres to work in (which can be seen under out blog banner) if you would like to be considered for being chosen as one of our top 3 Pinworthy mentions.

How have our very talented Creative Guides interpreted this theme and guidance? 

Let's take a look at their inspirational projects.

Brenda

I have a growing collection of treasured vintage cabinet cards and old photos and although I've scanned some into the PC and printed them off to use on projects I have never had the courage to use an original - till now. More details can be found at Bumblebees and Butterflies.

Jennie

My piece of treasure is this little rose painted on silk by my mother over 20 years ago just before she died.  I had a job extricating it from the card and it is a bit messy! but ...... the project is of course very special and I have used lots of treasured bits and pieces from my own stash which I think she would have loved. If you would like to see how this all came together then please do join me over at Live The Dream.

Astrid

There is no doubt about it, - my greatest treasures can all be found in my craftroom. I am a hoarder of stash and especially of beautiful papers which I love to stroke...

For this challenge I dug into my paper stash and used some of my most treasured collections to create a vintage folio from scratch. If you want to find out how I went about that, come visit me on my blog.

Deb

Happy 4th birthday AVJ!  For my 'Treasure' birthday project I decided it was high time that I actually used some of my dearly treasured Tim Holtz Vignette Boxes, Paper Stashes and Idea-ology bits and bobs.  Come on over to my blog to see how my Destination Innovation vignette box came together.

 Annie

       

 I am so thrilled to be part of AVJ's 4th Birthday Celebrations and to be taking part in Brenda's "Treasure" challenge theme. I have lots of treasures in my stash and decided to create a wall hanging using laces/fabrics/buttons and LP stamps. For more details/photos  on my blog click HERE 


Well what beautiful projects from the team with some treasured craft supplies being used on the amazing Creative Guides' projects. I hope you saw our post last Friday where we explained some changes we are making to the challenge posts for the coming AVJ new year. If you missed it you can be transported over if you click Here.

Thank you for being on this amazing vintage and creative journey with us and we hope you will continue to enjoy our challenges and inspiration.

Take care and have a wonderful weekend hopefully snuggled up warm and safe in your craft rooms especially if you have been hit by snow this week.

hugs Brenda and the Creative Guides. xxx

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