A couple of week's ago, I found a new challenge blog, A Vintage Journey; vintage, shabby chic, & Tim Holtz - definitely me, I thought! It's run by Brenda Brown, & she's got a great Design Team working on the blog. Challenges are going to be every 2 weeks, and are sponsored by Countryview Crafts (a great online shop with great prices & quick delivery, and free postage in the UK).
So here's my first entry.
The theme for this first challenge is 'Anything Tim'! So a vast selection of inspiration to inspire me! What would I do? Being a 'vintage journey', I thought I'd 'travel' back in time, and revisit (loosely!) the first of Tim's tag for Christmas 2011, which was the first tag I ever completed & blogged; although I 'd seen his previous years' tags, I 'd never got around to doing any!
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| My 2011 tag (I didn't have the pine cone die at the time) |
So I revisited the tag & thought about how I could adapt it from Christmas...
As Tim said in his blog post, he was focusing on the pine cone die. In the video, he shows how to use the die to create roses, as well as pine cones, so I decided to do these. & I used the new foliage strip die for the greenery. I did the background using Tim's techniques (except I didn't rub the embossing powder off the raised areas!). I covered the die cut flourish with distress glitter (not available in 2011!). Finally, I added a few embellishments, & punched & distressed borders. I was going to use the word 'Spring', but although I have seen a (very) few roses already with the odd flower (this early!!!) the roses didn't really fit with spring, so I used some chit-chat stickers instead.
The theme for this first challenge is 'Anything Tim'! So a vast selection of inspiration to inspire me! What would I do? Being a 'vintage journey', I thought I'd 'travel' back in time, and revisit (loosely!) the first of Tim's tag for Christmas 2011, which was the first tag I ever completed & blogged; although I 'd seen his previous years' tags, I 'd never got around to doing any!
