Vintage Heartthrob

 A Vintage style Valentine's card.

Take the background and blend pumice stone distress ink round the edges. 

Using small stencils create some design texture using hickory smoke distress ink.

With  black archival ink stamp some text to add more interest.

Die-cut the 3 hearts from the Vault Lovebirds, score them to fold in half and ink edges with black soot distress ink before gluing together.

Stamp the hearts with black archival ink.

Find some snippets and stamps to add further interest.

 xxx

Supplies

https://www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk/tim-holtz-distress-ink--re-inkers-103-c.asp

Stampers Anonymous TH stamps - Watercolor CMS217, Field Notes CMS396,

Stampers Anonymous - TH mini layering stencils set#14, #48

Sizzix TH dies Vault Lovebirds,

Idea-ology - TH Photobooth, Film Strip, Snippets, Ephemera

Blending tools and foams

Distressed vintage travel wallet

 Travel Wallet

Travel CVC June #2

Meet George Roberts who has a long journey to school every day. This means him having to rise at 6 and catch the 7.05 train from Springfield Street Railway Station in Windsor, to London, as he needs to be there by 8 am. He alights at Paddington Station and walks 10 mins to Paddington Technical College where he is studying engineering.

George buys his ticket every day which costs him 2 shillings. He has to be back at Paddington to get the 4.50 train home or get an evening ticket if he wants to stay later. He sometimes does that so he can socialise with friends he has made.

He keeps his tickets with a travel identity card provided by the Springfield Street Railway Company and distributed by the Post Office. If he is asked for it by the train conductor, he must show it as the certificate allows him to travel on School Day Tickets.

The wallet is a TH file folder covered with two different pieces of TH papers (one front and one middle). The story is told with the found relative photo, ephemera and stamps, I like to create additions myself if I can't find what I want in my supplies and here I did with his name, identity card label and Paddington station label.

This is my second June project for Country View Crafts 'Travel' FaceBook challenge. If you've popped over from there thankyou for your support.

xx

Supplies

TH - Idea-ology -  Found Relatives, Ephemera, Die-Cuts Layers Urban, Snippets, Number Strips, Layer Frames, Paper Strips, Paper Pad French Industrial, 

TH - Stamps - Travel Ways - CMS 162, Air Travel CMS102, Correspondence CMS225, Tidbits CMS488, Field Notes CMS396, 

Tissue/Washi Tape - my supplies

Identity Card label Name of Station, Names for George - made by me.

Constructing Vintage Photo Cabinet Card Collage

Gelli printing, stamping and mixed media

A gelli print, a stamp and the idea of creating a mixed media cabinet card brought this project to fruition. 

Played with Alison's poppy stamps on the gelli plate using Fresco Finish paints and ended up with a lovely design that I enhanced with a brown drawing pen. I cut it in half ........

...... and used one half as a wallpaper for the photograph, edged with a dark flowery paper that makes it stand out more.

I stamped the corners of the main card.

Next, gathered items to bring the design together including some embellishments, but knowing me these could change as I move things around to get a design I'm happy with.

Eventually happy with the design and the idea.

Supplies

TH Stamps - Victorian CMS300

Alison Bomber- EAB37 Poppy

TH _ Found Relatives

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints - colours not recorded, probably Buff, Toffee and Snowflake 

Vintage Collage Layers - Tim Holtz

 Using a TH file folder to create a vintage collage

Distressed, vintage collage.

 In 2025 Take A Risk

Just playing with a small panel to use some of the new stamps I bought well before Christmas that I haven't got to yet. I used new card that didn't allow me to pull the colours out of the distress inks but even so still quite happy with the finished effects,

The panel was just blended, dipped, dripped and dried with the same colours and dried.

I stamped the typewriter and cut it out ....

 ..... as well as the 25 and words ready to put a collage together. 

At this point i decided to add some 49 and Market rub-ns, I just love how they seem to melt into the paper they are so easy to use.

I punched out the white star on the blue background for the tiny hardware head and glued it in and gave it a covering of glossy accents.

I gathered some snippets together and cut a side tab and stamped it as well as second generation stamped onto the panel as well. I then spattered with the white paint.

It then just all came together and is ready to add to my Tim Holtz shabby-vintage panel journal.

Thanks for stopping by.

Supplies

TH DIs Pumice Stone, Hickory Smoke

TH Stamps - Curiosity Shop CMS482, Way With Words CMS165

TH Hardware Heads

TH Frames and Trims

49 ad Market Rub Ons

TH Marker - Faded Jeans

Archival inks - Black, Watering Can

Glossy Accents, Snowflake Fresco Finish Paint,

Card = PaperMill Direct

PaperArtsy Snowflake paint.

Santa - Vintage photo - Tim Holtz

 Memories of Father Christmas

As a child many, many years ago I can still remember being so excited for Father Christmas coming on Christmas Eve and getting into bed wanting to stay awake to see him. Whilst I lay there waiting I was sure I could hear sleigh bells in the distance. Of course I did fall asleep and I would awake to my pillowcase that I had left out on the end of my bed, being filled with presents and always a satsuma, some crayons or paints and a bar of chocolate.

I love this old photo of Santa, a name change? I've used it with Tim Holtz goodies in a collaged panel.

It was a lovely surprise for me this morning to see that Tim Holtz had added it to his Instagram story today. How exciting is that?

I used several papers from an old 12 x 12 pad from Tim and parchworked them together and stitched around the edge. The frame was discarded from a photo frame so I just painted it with glue and sprinkled distress rock candy glitter all over it ad blended some walnut stain around the edges.

The rest were bits and pieces from one of Tim's ephemera packs, snippets from tubs and bags in one of my Christmas boxes.

xxx

Supplies

Tim Holt papers, ephemera, stamp, dies, glitter and photo

Pressed Botanicals Collage - Pressed grasses and pressed umbels stamps by Alison Bomber

 Vintage Dreaming Collage

A vintage collage created directly in my Collage Panels journal, especially for using with Tim Holtz Found Relatives and Photobooth Pictures.

The Umbels silhouette stamp was inked up and directly added to the central panel .....

.... whilst the silhouette grasses were stamped onto spare card and fussy cut.

Some of Alison's words were added to bring a story to the overall project ....

.... this particular young lady is looking thoughtful and reflective with eyes looking upwards to the foliage and wondering about a walk in the forest where she can lose herself in her dreams and find some peace and quiet.

That is me sometimes, looking forward to a walk on our Ranges where the paths roam past the canal, out into fresh, bright openings and then back into some dense wooded areas which climb high and provide some beautiful views through the trees.

xxx