Destination Inspiration : December : Arriving At Terminal 1

Hello to you all and welcome to a new month and a new bag of travel goodies here at Destinations Inspirations. Jennie here with you kickstarting December at Terminal 1 with these wonderful things in my bag:

Product : Tissue Paper

Technique : Embossing (Dry or Heat)

Colour : Silver or Gold

Substrate : Acetate

My Tim Holtz Tattered Poinsettia die is never far from my desk at this time of the year so I decided to use it with Acetate to create a focal point for a frosty Christmas tag.

I used Wendy Vecchi's Clearly For Art acetate modelling film to cut out three flower leaves. However, before I cut them I stuck (badly!) some Tim Holtz Frosting Film to the acetate to give it a bit more definition. I really love this effect but normally make a better job of smoothing out the bubbles which did not want to go this particular time!

I love how the leaves once heated can be moulded to shape. I shaped each individual leaf first, layered them and then added this glorious stamen.

As you can see the bubbles are still there under the frosting film, but at least it adds a little more texture .....

This is the reverse side of the acetate and you can see how shiny it is without the addition of the frosting film. I love how the moulding acetate gives so much depth to the flower whilst only using three leaves.

So that was my use of acetate and now to the rest of the goodies in the bag.

I have this wonderful DecoArt tissue paper which when added to a tag using Gel Medium appears more translucent and takes on the colour of the tag underneath. It appeared quite golden and so that inspired me to stick with gold rather than the silver I had thought to use.

I wanted to create some interesting layers under the flower but without losing the lovely tissue paper. I started with some die cut circles .....

....... then a small piece of muslin ......

..... a white ribbon bow and the flower. 

Once these elements were in place I was able to tuck my other embellishments in and around them.

Plenty of white frosty berries and gold string ....

.... and some white wooden snowflakes.

And now for my final product in the bag ..... a little bit of embossing. Now I am the absolute worst person in the world at embossing and even with my Tim Holtz Stamping Platform had to do this zillions of times before I got something half decent!

I love this set of Christmas and Winter stamps created by our fellow Creative Guide Alison Bomber and had this Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote in my head all the time I was creating the tag. My initial idea had been to use the gold embossing on kraft card but it didn't sit well against the  similar colour tissue on the tag. A shame really as this was my first attempt at embossing and it came out perfectly ... !

My Frosty Christmas Tag using all the lovely things in this month's travel bag. 

Thank you so much for joining me today and do be ready at Terminal 2 next Monday where another Creative Guide will be welcoming you with another inspiring project using these same products.

Also don't forget to join us in our current challenge Winter Wonderland - all the details can be found HERE.

Happy Crafting!

Jennie x

July Destinations Inspiration - Arriving at Terminal 1

Hello and welcome to the first Destination Inspiration of July.  Autumn of SewPaperPaint with you today to guide you along with the contents of our July travel bag.

Product - Flower Dies

Technique - Any Marbling Technique

Color - Purple

Substrate - Glossy Card

I came across THIS video on faux marbling with a Gelli Plate.  I was excited to give it a try and impressed with how cool the result was, though I didn't do an under layer of paint.  I wanted my marbling to be white.  

  

I cut a Stampin' Up butterfly die from the marbled paper and layered a Tim Holtz butterfly die over that, along with a sticker sentiment.  I layered my butterfly over basket filler and a couple of Spellbinders wreath dies.

I didn't have a single sheet of glossy card in my stash, so I used a sheet of Tim's glossy resist card for my background panel.  I dipped it in a mix of Milled Lavender and Seedless Preserves DI.  I sponged the edges and splashed the panel with Weathered Wood.  The black script and faux stitch stamp are by BoBunny.

I used the Tattered Florals die to make a handmade flower from my tutorial HERE.  I layered it with a dyed loopy bow.

I cut a Yvonne Creations Spring-tastic Flora die into two pieces and tucked into my bundle to complete the design.  That's it for me today.  I hope you will join us each Monday in July for additional stops along our journey.  Our current challenge, All Squared Up, is underway with an opportunity to win a MDF prize package from our fabulous sponsor, Tando Creative.  Come, play along!

Destination Inspiration Terminal 1

Annie here to welcome  you all to Terminal 1 for the start of your June Journey. Within this month's Travel bag we have the following contents:

Product - Paint

Technique - Resist

Colour - Orange

Substrate - Coaster/Beer Mat

I have had coaster's in my stash for many years and never got round to using them so I am thrilled to have been able to incorporate them into my project here at Terminal 1. Grab a cuppa as there are lots of photographs/details  to share along the way xx

Here is the finished project:

 First of all  the coaster was placed on some heavy card stock, enough to take paint and whatever else was applied to it. I drew around the coaster and then cut out a piece for the front and back.

 Taking a Tim Holtz Flourish stencil I applied some Decoart Americana Paint in Canyon Orange using a  firm tipped paint brush then dried it with my heat gun. 

Distress Oxides in Cracked Pistachio, Spiced Marmalade and Peeled Paint were applied with a Distress Ink Tool and then wiped back  from the paint using a paper towel. By wiping the paint you can see how it resists the ink. 

 Various stamps from Visible Images were then applied to the background. The little dragonflies were stamped in Ranger Archival  Inks Forget - Me - Not and Dandelion. Some gesso was applied through a Crafter's Workshop stencil and  then dried with my heat gun.

 For the inside covers I took a very large Ranger manila tag and again drew round the coaster.  

A couple of Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous stamps were inked using Ranger Perfect Medium (you could also use versamark). Transparent embossing powder was then applied to the medium and heat set. You can just make out the images  below, which were taken just prior to using the heat gun.

 Using Tim Holtz "wrinkle free distress" technique I applied Cracked Pistachio, Spiced Marmalade and Peeled Paint to my craft mat, spritzed with water and then smooshed the manila card through. I heat set each time enabling me to build up layers with the DIO's. You can see that the transparent embossing powder is very subtle against these colours, hence I decided to use white embossing powder for my tags/pockets 

 Another transparent image using the Peeled Paint and Cracked Pistachio DIO's.

 Now that the inner and out covers were almost complete I added some orange and white paint in fine lines, using my Ranger scraping tool.

 Lin Brown's new script stamp was inked with Ranger Archival Dandelion and applied to various areas. Black Soot Di  was then applied to the edges of the coasters making the colours pop.

 Some lace from my stash was coloured with Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink/lots of water and dried with my heat gun.

 The lace was then adhered using Ink Essentials Wonder Tape. (easily a favourite for this type of task as its so strong)

 Some ribbon from my stash also adhered with Ranger Wonder Tape.

To demonstrate the difference between embossing powders I applied  Cosmic Shimmer True White embossing powder to the Perfect Medium and you can see that its much more prominent.

Once heat set the tags, which were cut from Tim's Tiny Tags die, were smooshed through the same DIO's again using Tim's wrinkle free distress technique. (Think I have subjected you to enough photographs by now !!! )

 The covers were adhered with Cosmic Shimmer Glue, which allowed me some time to ensure they were correctly placed over the coaster. A small piece of card, which was inked, stamped and edged was then adhered around the back of the covers. 

 The inside of my project

 The back of the project

 Inside with tags removed and you can see the little tag holders that I made too.

Thank You so much for "Hopping on board" at Terminal 1. I do hope you have enjoyed this leg of the journey. As always there is another Destination Inspiration post next Monday, when one of our  amazingly talented Creative Guides will take you on yet another inspiring journey. 

Meanwhile, I hope you can join in with our new monthly challenge, "Use a Canvas" which began on Friday 2nd June and will run until 18:00 on the 6th July. (Click HERE for the challenge details)

Our challenge winner is always randomly chosen so everyone is in with the same chance of winning. The Creative Guides also choose three Pinworthy creations giving the artist the chance to guest here at A Vintage Journey.  Please make sure you check out the challenge description and rules, which can be found at the right hand side of the page under Travelling Instructions.

Have a lovely week

Annie xxx

Destination Inspiration -All aboard for May Terminal 1

Hello, hello and happy May!! This is Astrid with a little project to hopefully inspire you....

 It's time to jump aboard for yet another leg of our Destination Inspiration journey. We have a lovely collection of things in our travel bag this month, - let's have a peep inside:

Product: Sprays or Brushos

Technique: Gesso Resist

Colour: Blue

Substrate: Card

What a fun collection to start playing with, so come along on the journey and I'll show you what I made:

As you can see, it's a little triptych with three different card panels. 

Below you can see how I put this together:

I cut a piece of blue card to 6" by 12" and scored it at 4" and 8" along the 12" side.

I then cut  three separate pieces of white card just slightly smaller, so 5.75 by 3.75 ", and decided to use the gesso resist technique by scraping gesso through 2 different but similar stencils and also by using a background stamp.

For those of you who are new to this technique, - gesso will act as a resist to any water based ink or spray as it resists the water/ translucent elements in these products. So when you add colour, the gessoed areas remain much lighter. You can use stencils, stamps or even just scrape on the gesso over your substrate. These are the stencils and stamps I used: from left to right: Tim Holtz Shattered, Memorybox Lathenai and a stamp from Local King Rubber Stamp.

Here is the first one, after I added colour. I used Tim Holtz Distress Spray Tumbled Glass and Cobalt Blue Brusho. I sprinkled on a bit too much of that, so it got quite dark in the centre.

Here you can see the next stage, - I lifted some of the Brusho off again using a baby wipe and then added more blue using Distress Inks in Faded Jeans and Chipped Sapphire around the edges and also did some background stamping using various Tim Holtz stamps.

The next two panels were done in a very similar way:

The one on the left used the Rubber King stamp, the one on the right the Memorybox stencil. As I used a little too much gesso on there, some of the detail of the stencilling got lost.

Time to finish the different panels.

For the fhe first one, that became the middle panel, I just adhered a large Petaloo flower from my stash to the centre and also a little Tim Holtz word band.

For the next one I used one of Tim's Thinlet dies with matching stamp, - it was coloured with Derwent Inktense pencils and I also did some further stamping in Black Archival.

Finally for the last one I used the Dragonfly from the Classics 1 set by Stampers Anonymous and stamped it first straight onto the card, and then stamped the wing separately again.

And below the finished card after adhering the wings to the dragon fly, - again coloured with Inktense pencils and a little gold Aqua Tint for a bit of shimmer.

Now, it was at this point that I decided to make the triptych into a little booklet, so I made a cover for it, putting some ribbon in a matching colour underneath, so it could be tied shut.

The paper I used for the cover are papers I designed myself, - you can find them as freebies on my blog here if you are interested. The words Artist Journal are again from the Classics 1 set. As I had printed the papers on rather glossy paper I sanded the surface a little so the stamping would adhere better, I also added a little gesso behind the stamping to give it more tooth.

And here is the finished booklet, ready to give to someone as a special card.

I hope you have enjoyed this first leg of the journey, like I said, if you like printed papers, just head over to my blog (there are several others there as well), and don't forget to come back next Monday, when it is time for the second leg of our journey. Do check out our current challenge also (link in the side bar) and of course there will be several Inspiration Journeys too during the rest of the month.

Thank you so much for visiting today and have a lovely month of May!!

xxx

Astrid