Tim's August Tag 2015

Hello to all of you and thank you so much for stopping by! Last month I just got in on the last day, so I decided this time, it would be the first week! Here is my take on Tim's Tag for August.

I really had fun with this one and boy did I stain up my fingers pretty darn good. That would normally be OK, but we are meeting friends for dinner in just a few minutes! Even using alcohol wipes, some finger residue remains! My color choices below.

For shading as I wanted a softer touch, I used the Pumice Stone marker and used some Chit Chat stickers instead of the Small Talk. The stamp I used is from Tim's Artful Artifacts and that was stamped randomly across the tag and I did mask areas I did not want print.

Pretty much I followed the guidelines and really do like how it turned out! Enjoy the rest of the week and again I thank you for visiting.

The Secret!

The first Monday of the month and that means another Product Focus from Artistic and all stamps in the "Verses and Greetings" category will be 20% off through Saturday, August 8th! This also brings on the new monthly "Show Us Your AO Art," so be sure to join in for a chance to win a $15 store voucher, but of course using those AO stamps! For more fabulous AO inspiration visit Tracy, Shari, Gerrie,

I think the Boardwalk bathing beauties were perfect to place on top of this so true sentiment from "Quotes and Quotables" all stamped in Black Archival and inked in Antique Linen, Pumice Stone and shaded in Vintage Photo and Black Soot.   Layered it up and distressed the edges and added some photo corners.

Now for my background I wanted something vintage and a little feminine, so I inked up the card stock with the inks above and shaded as well. Next I applied DecoArt Crackle Paint (thank you Brenda) using a painted brush over the Prima stencil. Once dried, I reapplied the stencil and inked over it with Vintage Photo. This is a pretty detailed stencil and my first time used the DecoArt Crackle Paint and I was pleased with the results!

Hope you have fun on the Blog Hop and thank you for taking the time to visit! Have a great day!

Final Destination!

Hello to all of you! Today it is with a heavy heart that this will be my last post for A Vintage Journey. Before I started this adventure with AVJ, I was already blogging friends with so many on the team and I was over the moon excited that I was invited to join such a fun, talented, compassionate and friendly group! This is the most supportive and truly caring design team and I will miss being on this incredible team, but I know these special ladies will always be just a click away. Life has taken me other places with different priorities, but I will continue blogging and hopefully have more time to join in various challenges and just play!

This is only a sneak peak, so click HERE and visit Terminal 5 for all the details and more photos on my final project for AVJ.

Thank you and have a beautiful day!

Tim's July Tag of 2015

Happy Friday to all of you! I just made it in time to join in Tim's July tag of 2015 and this may be the first time I have slid in on the last day! Honestly, I have just not had time and it takes so much to motivate me lately, but I did it!!!

I will not bore you with all the details as he does a really good job of that! Here are the Distress Markers I used and blue print stamps. Pumice Stone was used for the shading on the image. I cut my paper from the Destinations stash and the Distress Inks I used for the final watercolor shading are Peeled Paint and Brushed Corduroy.

Now years ago I purchased a product from Judikins called Micro Glaze and I have it somewhere, but have no idea where and figured my local stores would not have Tim's version, so I improvised. Yup, I used regular Vaseline and pounced in on with my finger and then placed a paper towel over to lift off the excess. After I was done watercoloring, I rubbed off any excess. Hey you got to do what you got to do at times to play along!

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Come On!

Hello and welcome to this month's Blog Hop with Artistic Outpost in which we are showcasing "Country Life." Please visit the rest of the DT, Tracy, Shari, Lisa, for more inspiration.

I decided to use one of the jumbo tags to create a little "Country Life" scene which I did by layering various stamps from Hayride across the lower edge, watercoloring using Stampin Up Markers and masking the images before inking over the background with Antique Linen, Brushed Corduroy, a little Spiced Marmalade, flicking with water and add a little light stenciling. Shading was done with Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain and a little Black Soot.

The Tractor was stamped in Black Archival and colored with Mellow Moss and Going Gray.

Black Archival was used to stamp the Basket of Apples, which were colored with Real Red, Certainly Celery and a mix of Creamy Caramel and Summer Sun (Basket). Masked off part of the sign which was stamped in Coffee Archival and sentiment in Black.

Next the Pumpkins were stamped first by inking the stamp with Sepia and then Tiger Lily Archival, colored with Pumpkin Pie and Summer Sun, masked and then the Hay Bale stamped in Tree Branch Archival. Finished off by stamping and cutting apart the sentiment and adding some Vines stamped in Olive.

Have a wonderful day and thank you for stopping by!

Dream Big

Hello and hope you are all excited about the weekend and have a little bit of fun planned! Today I a sharing from Artistic Outpost's Wander and Dream collection. I thought it was time to bring the Cowgirl out to play. Since this is also my time to post at AO, if you want more details, click right HERE. And if you have some AO stamps, please join in the monthly challenge "Show Us Your AO Art" and you could win a store voucher!

Thank you for stopping by and enjoy the weekend!

Baby H

Happy Wednesday to all of you and hope you are having a great week! I totally forgot to post this, which was finished before we went to Wisconsin in the middle of June! This was done in the same manner as the "B" and "C" with gesso and various textures from embellishment to crackle, etc. I neglected to take a photo of the background before coloring, but if you have seen previous Mixed Media posts, you know all about it and can click the link above to see how it all begins.

Opps, I just found the photo which somehow was in the wrong folder!

After all the textures and embellishments were added and gessoed, I used a mixed of sprays from Dylusions, Color Wash and Tattered Angels. In some areas I would pat off color before completely drying. 

Some items I purchased and some I kept from previous baby showers or just items I thought would come in handy one day for something! The little solo spoon is from store sample!

Of course I had to add that little wooden "H" and as Hailey was born in March, I try to add some items in clusters of 3. 

To finish I applied some satin varnish and added a twisted ribbon tie for hanging, which I forgot to take a picture of, but it was only a ribbon! 

Thank you for stopping by and have a great finish to the week! 

The Good Old Outdoors!

Welcome to Artistic Outpost's Product Focus Blog Hop for July, "Nature and Outdoors" and all stamps in this category are 20% off through Saturday, July 11 and no promotional code is required. For extra inspiration and great art be sure to visit the rest of the fabulous DT!

Shari, Tracy, Kate, Lisa

Painted tag with a tan colored acrylic paint and did a two step cracked and then sprayed with Tattered Angers Chalk spray in Chocolate.

The desert scene was stamped directly onto the tag with Black Archival. Our AO Cowboy was watercolored using Tattered Rose and Gathered Twigs. Sentiments were stamped also with Black Archival, cut and shaded. The Cactus and Supplies were stamped in Coffee Archival, fussy cut and shaded. Finished off with a little rope, which my husband assured me that Cowboys did not tie that neat or tight of a loop! So there goes my life as a Cowboy! Well you don't have to be a Cowboy to join in the monthly "Show Us Your AO Art" and there is always a store gift certificate to be won, so gather up some AO stamps and get inky!

I so appreciate your visit today as I know with Summer and vacations we are all strapped for time. Have a lovely week!

Happy 4th of July!

Hello to all of you and I hope whatever your plans are over the weekend that you make them big! We have big plans to celebrate our independence this 4th of July at our friends house with fireworks, food and of course great company. This tag uses the Hero stamps from Artistic Outpost and will be tied on whatever bag of goodies we bring over to the party!

If you want more details, please visit my Blog Post at AO! Thank you for stopping by and have a great weekend!

CC3C Layering Stencil - Paint Resist

Hope you all are having a bunch of summer fun! Can't believe it is July and I have been pretty busy and not so motivated to craft, but did manage to get challenge #31 for the Compendium of Curiosities III finished! Linda and that fabulous Curiosity Crew instructed us to open our books to page 47, lesson Layering Stencil - Paint Resist. The lovely Inspiration Emporium is the current sponsor of a $50 gift certificate and as always someone will be chosen by the CC for a special gift from Tim and Mario.

You all know we can not tell you about the details, but I will show you the supplies I used. Two set of stencil for the first part and four for the second part (I left Latticework and Schoolhouse out of the picture?).

What I can tell you is that after I stamped on the butterflies and a little here and there on the tag, I took those tiny little spools and colored them with Vintage Photo stain and added the little wires. The Trellis frameworks is a piece of grunge board, painted, crackled and stained from my stash.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you are having a great start to July!