Crazy for Autumn @ A Vintage Journey

Hi Friends,  it's one of my favorite times at A Vintage Journey, the start of a new challenge  We are celebrating Autumn with it's wonderful color pallet and thoughts of cool fall days.  The theme this month is "Crazy for Autumn Color" and the creative guides have a wonderful array of creative designs to share with you.  Come on by - simply click here.

I made this piece of home décor to celebrate the season.

I began with an ordinary embroidery hoop that was purchase at my local craft store.
Next I cut a piece of burlap that is a little bit larger than the hoop.

The burlap was sprayed with some Nemories Mist sprays.  I used orange, of course, and some dark brown.  Next the burlap was placed on the hoop and the edges were trimmed off in the back and glued down.

Using some semi opaque vellum, I cut several leaves and then colored them with alcohol inks.  When the ink was dry, which doesn't take long, I embossed some of the larger leave and then folded the others in half to give some dimension. 

I placed the leaves as desired on the hoop and held them in place with glue dots.  When all leaves were arranged as desired I added some acorns and some ribbon on the top.

I used chipboard that was covered with paper to cut my letters for the word "FALL".

Hope you have enjoyed my project and that you will stop by over at A Vintage Journey to see the wonderful creations.

See you there,
S@ndy

Saturday School Week 5

Hi Saturday School Students, 

As much as I love the Hipsters, I'm taking a break for a couple weeks to share some other things made with items from my crafty stash.  The Hipsters will definitely reappear but for today, "D" is for dog.  As in Crazy Dogs.

Who wouldn't want to play ball with these crazy characters?

Have a wonderful weekend,
S@ndy

Saturday School Week 4

Hi all you crazy students, today we are going to look at the letter "E".  As we all know, E is for eye chart.  Since all the Hipsters wear glasses what could be more appropriate?

This #hipforsummer thing has really been fun and I've seen some pretty amazing makes out there.  This week I decided to go a little crazy with the colors.

Hope you enjoy,

S@ndy

Saturday School Week 1

Hi my friends,

I am starting a new series that I hope will become fun and challenging.  I like to go through my local thrift shops to see what is out there that I could use for my mixed media and card making adventures.  Some time ago I picked up these cute children's items - phonics flash cards, a little book and question & answers fan deck.  They have been sitting in my stash for a long time so when I joined Tim Holtz's #hipforsummer challenge I decided to put them to use. I have made three so far and will share with you once a week.  Not all will be Hipsters but that's where I started.  My challenge to myself is to make something once a week using things that I already have but haven't used lately.

These are my thrift store items so here we go -

I used one of the phonics cards "ch", of course, is for Chimp. 

He's pretty cool with his mirrored sunglasses and the attitude!   I used a little Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide on the card itself and then did a little stenciling. The chimp is stamped and then  colored with Copic Markers and finally die cut with the new Sizzix Hipster die.  I layered all the pieces together with foam tape to give it some dimension and also used the foam tape to attach it to the card.

Hope you have enjoyed-

S@ndy

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Copic - Sketch Marker Set - Shabby Sheik - 12 Piece Set	Copic - Sketch Marker Set - Holiday - 12 Piece Set	Kaisercraft - Lucky Dip - Foam Tape

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#gethipforsummer

I thought it would be fun to join the challenge using the Hipster Stamps and Dies from Tim Holtz & Sizzix so here is my first official make.  You can read the details by clicking here. 

I had lots of fun with this one as I simply think it's funny that a bird is on the head of a cat.  I was going to put "friends" but Mac suggested that I use "buds" and I like that.

Hope you have enjoyed and will join the "Hip" fun.

S@ndy

Scrapbook.com is having a great sale on Sizzix Dies

Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz - Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set - Hipster	Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz - Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set - Mini Bird Crazy and Things	Sizzix Framelits Die Set 4PK - Hipster Cat	Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Distress Oxides Ink Pads - Fossilized Amber	Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Distress Oxides Ink Pads - Spiced Marmalade
Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Distress Oxides Ink Pads - Wilted Violet	Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Distress Oxides Ink Pads - Cracked Pistachio	Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Distress Ink Pads - Candied Apple	Copic - Sketch Marker Set - Shabby Sheik - 12 Piece Set	Sizzix - Tim Holtz - Movers and Shapers Die - Alterations Collection - Die Cutting Template - Tag an
Sizzix - Tim Holtz - Alterations Collection - Thinlits Die - Mixed Media	Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz - Layering Stencil - Numbered	Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz - Layering Stencil - Stars	Kaisercraft - Lucky Dip - Foam Tape

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Winter Magic @ A Vintage Journey

It's a new month and that means it's a new challenge at A Vintage Journey.  For December our challenge is Winter Magic, you can see what the team has made by clicking here.  For me that brings thoughts of  snow covered trees and white so that's what I have to share today.  To keep it vintage I used a canning jar filled with snow and a beautiful tree from Karen Burniston's Pop it Ups Collection, the Christmas Tree Pop Stand.  I added a few snowflakes from Karen's All Seasons Tree and the Christmas Charms set.  I finished it all off by setting the jar on some lovely large snowflakes made from the Tim Holtz Layered Snowflake die that comes with the matching embossing folder.

 

 

Stay warm and cozy this winter,

S@ndy

 

The challenge at Anything But Cute is Rustic Glam so think I will share over there as well.

 

Sew Special

Hi and welcome,

Today we begin a new challenge at A Vintage Journey - Sew Special - where our lovely hostess, Jenny, is asking us to use fabric on our project.  I used a burlap panel from idea-ology for my base and, of course, went with the sewing theme.

The first step was to stencil the ruler on, I used molding paste and the Measured Stencil.

 

 

After stash diving for sewing things, I found this dress form, sorry I don't know where I got it. I edged the dress form and a piece of torn paper with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

 

    Next the form and paper were added to the canvas

                                                 An empty bobbin was glued to the top

 

I had no pink ribbon so died some seam binding with Spun Sugar reinker and water. 

This is easy to do by simply dropping some reinker on a non stick mat and then adding a few drops of water.  Wet the ribbon, add it to the ink and then dry with a heat gun.

 

Next came a length of lace from Graphic 45, then the ribbon was added.   Tie a bow and add some pretty flowers.

 

Using Sewing Room Die - cut one dress form with Honey Pop Paper (Inky Antics) and one from chipboard.  Add double sided adhesive to both sides of Honey Pop form.  Remove liner from adhesive and stick to half of chipboard form.  Add form to burlap panel and then remove adhesive liner from other side of Honey Pop then stick down.

 

 

Final step is to add scissors from Sewing Edge Die, a few buttons, and a phrase banner.

 

Hope you will stop by the Vintage Journey blog by clicking here to see what everyone made and to join the fun by posting your Sew Special project.

 

Have a great weekend,

S@ndy 

 

 

 

 

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Tim Holtz Layering Stencil: Measured

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