Guest Designer at A Vintage Journey

A Vintage Journey

Fond Memories Challenge

I’m so pleased to have been selected as the winner of the ‘A little Bit French’ Challenge and asked to be a Guest Designer for the  current ‘Fond Memories’ Challenge

My memory box and album is inspired by a special place with fond memories, we frequently stayed in a village in the Yorkshire Dales when I was growing up
A beautiful place, fresh air, green rolling hills and a group of peacocks!
They inhabited the village and ruled the roost! constantly calling and parading around displaying their beautiful feathers

All of the images are from the surrounding area and places we visited, one very fond memory is the St Michael and all Angels Church, a place I loved to go into and count the wooden mice
The pews were made by a local craftsman Robert Thompson known as the Mouseman due to his famous carvings and trademark 

I started my memory box with an image transfer technique using DecoArt Faux Medium on the lid using a peacock feather image, I aged this with one step crackle and a wash of DecoArt Quinacridone Gold, Burnt Umber and Carbon Black

The outside of the box was painted with Carbon Black and Burnt Umber acrylic and decorated with Tim’s Vintage lace die cuts in black card and then dry brushed with Metallic Rich Espresso.

Once dry I applied the various decorative metal fixings

The memory album is based on Tim’s W book format but left just as a concertina only sticking the sides that form the pockets the first end fixed to the inside of the box lid
The great thing about the concertina book is the it allows for any depth of embellishments and you can add more pages

I Coloured the Curio knob, Foundations box feet, trim, Word keys, heart and oval charms with Alcohol inks to add a more vintage effect

The heart embellishments were cut from chipboard with the Tim Holtz die covered in modelling paste and painted with Acrylics and metallic shimmer, the smaller hearts were Tando chipboard mini hearts

I also made heart, discs and abstract embellishments using UTEE & Ranger peacock texture treads and edged the micro slides too

 Details of some of the feature pages and tags, I made 16 in total which was two of W books put together

The remainder are made up of photo pages

Such a wonderful challenge theme, I'm so looking forward to seeing everyone’s amazing creations.

Jools : )

Products

Tim Holtz

Lost and found papers
Destinations
Kraft Resist
Kraft Glassine

Texture fades Harlequin

Nature walk stamps
Mini muse stamps

Mini Heart die
Vintage lace die
Tag & Bookplates

Embellishments

Curio Knobs
Heart Charms
Cash keys
Locket keys
Word keys

Alcohol Inks, Distress Inks & Stains, Glossy Accents

DecoArt

One Step Crackle
Metallics Perfect Pearl  Peacock and Purple
Rich Espresso and Glorious Gold
Traditions Quinacridone Gold, Carbon Black, Burnt Umber
Modelling Paste

Other

Cricut Cartridges
Paper lace
Fancy Frames
Art Nouveau

Fiskars Plumage

QuicKutz Feather Die

Prima Vintage Trinkets