A Vintage Girl

{a vintage girl} and Expo International Trims. A Match Made In Heaven!

Makes a wall hanging with a plethora of fun feathers, chipboard and molds!

Yes, I finally got a chance to play with {a vintage girl} chipboard, Lisa Kettel Designs and the fabulous Expo International to create this 8" x 10" canvas that features a dress form to showcase at Creative Inkling Retailer in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.  I just could not stop with all the chipboard, molds and the unbelievable trims from Expo International. 

It felt so good to get my mojo on, with a new manufacturing company, {a vintage girl}, designing new products every day plus the two businesses I already own, playing tournament pool and just life in general, it's hard to find a moment to be creative.   This entire project was over two days with each day being at 1 am in the morning. 

That is when the mojo hit, and you have to listen!

 

 

{a vintage girl} Supply List:

Chipboard Dress Form
Bricks
Fairy Dream Wings
Trinket Set (various pieces)
Working Pulley
Large Pipe Dreams
Alphanumeric Alpha Set

*{a vintage girl} is a Fiskars Brand Ambassador and all projects feature the use of Fiskars Scissors, Cutting Mat, Paper Trimmer and more.


*{a vintage girl} is a Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Brand Ambassador and this project features the use of their products.


ExpoInternational Supply List:
Natural Feather Fringe Trim
Mya Flower Trim-Brown
Jaylo Feather Trim Brown
Faux Leather Fringe with Studded Header-Black

DecoArt Media
Americana Acrylics Paint
Decoupage

Other
Fiskars Scissors, Cutting Mat and Paper Trimmer
Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares
Beacon Adhesive 3-in-1 Liquid Adhesive
Prima Finnabair Wax
Vintage Magazine Page
Vintage Book Page
Old RCA Radio Tube
Metal Butterfly and Clock

 

 

Thank you for stopping by, hope you have a chance to visit us on Instagram and our other Social Channels:

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Holiday Blog Hop with Rita Barakat and Industry Designers!

HOLIDAY BLOG HOP 
with some of your favorite designers in the industry with prizes from Rita Barakat!

Thank you for stopping by my blog, I am featuring a fun holiday Christmas Layout all ready for pictures from this holiday.

BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE OTHER BLOGS AND ALL THE PRIZES UP FOR GRABS AT THE END OF POST

Some serious fussy cutting going on here on this project with hand cut trees and dimensional birds.  This brand new holiday paper collection is from FabScraps, C110 Holly Jolly Christmas.  Lots of fun old-school techniques including paper curling and rolling and embossing powder.

Fabscraps Holly Jolly Paper Collection
Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares

Wow Embossing Powders

So excited for this hop! A bunch of your favorite designers getting together to bring you Christmas early! The line up includes :

Rita Barakat
hop.https://www.eileenhull.com/2018/11/christmas-comes-early-blog-hop.html

Eileen Hull

https://www.eileenhull.com/2018/11/christmas-comes-early-blog-hop.html

Betz Golden
https://betzgolden.com/2018/11/12/christmas-blog-hop-with-rita-barakat


Joe Rotella

http://www.createncraft.com/portfolio-items/diy-cookie-box-and-amaretto-apricot-chews-cookie-recipe/

Yolie Burke
https://www.justyolie.com/2018/11/christmas-comes-early-blog-hop.html

Midge and Madge
https://www.midgeandmadgemingle.com/blog/christmas-comes-early-hop

Susan Hiles
https://youtu.be/Hbs0QK9u-DQ

Carolina Moore
https://30minutecrafts.com/2018/11/woven-christmas-ornament.html

Michelle Wells
https://histrulybeloved.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-christmas-comes-early-hop-with.html


If that isn’t enough we have over $100 in crafty prizes including the entire line of Rita Barakat diecuts/ephemera and fabulous paints and glitters from @plaidcrafts! This is going to be awesome!!!

To enter to win you must visit and comment on each post! Bonus, stop by Plaid and like their FB Page! https://m.facebook.com/InspiredByPlaid

You have one week and Rita will announce the winner live on Facebook Monday, Nov 19, 8pm CST on Mixed Media Monday! @ritabarakat1

https://m.facebook.com/ritabarakat.1

The Story Behind the Printers Tray Album and an Introduction to the "A Vintage Girl" brand.

Introducing "A Vintage Girl," a vintage brand of crafty goodness including chipboard albums, chipboard embellishments and stencils to start.  All our products have a vintage style with some sprinkles of Steampunk.  We will have our official launch in late October, so keep an eye out. 

One of my chipboard albums, The Printers Tray, will be featured at Scrapbooking Fairies in Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada on September 29th is my all time favorite. As those that know me, know that I am truly a vintage girl at heart and at the center of that heart is a love for old Printers Trays.  I own one cabinet that is buried deep in storage, that I had to save for quite some time to buy. It was missing two drawers but that's ok, I have about 12 drawers that I have picked up over the years. They are spendy little devils, but when I see them I cannot resist.  All the little areas to put little things in like keys, old matchbooks, anything small really.

Six years ago, I was given the opportunity to create chipboard albums with Michele Parish of Want2Scrap.com.  Naturally, I did a gear album, then a steampunk one and then THE PRINTERS TRAY.  This was tricky because we needed to create the little lip on the long edge.  And then what would we put inside, so the embellishment sheet was born.  It had pieces and words that fit perfectly in the cutouts on the cover.  Scissors, windows, words, buttons and other fun items.  This is my most favorite album and such fun to have an album that is of one of my most prized possessions at home.

We are now offering them under my own brand, "A Vintage Girl" that features chipboard albums, chipboard embellishments, and stencils.  Working on a few other ventures including a paper collection and home decor.  Keep an eye out, we are super busy!

 

This is just a quick and dirty SNEAK PEEK of what we are featuring in upcoming workshops for September and October. 

 

Here is the gear album.  There is a second gear set that you can purchase to create a three-dimensional look that I show on the finished piece in this post.

Gear album embellishment Sheet.  These are made to add 2 additional layers to the cover of your gear album.  They are perfectly fine as a stand-alone gear set as well.

 

Our Epic Wicked Wings, perfect for use on mixed media home decor like dress forms or your art journal pages.

 

MORE COMING!!!! WOOHOO!!!

Let's Take A Time Warp to 2009-2010. Want to join me?

A little history and fun... I have been in the crafting industry since 2009. Most know that this journey started with my first show in Craft & Hobby Association show in 2009 in Anaheim, California where I took my very first paper dress form by the Graphic45 booth and they asked to leave it there.  Well, the rest is history!

My story and all the dress forms that I have made every single year for them will be posted on their blog in a little over a week, I will give the date and official announcement shortly. In preparation the research of finding all the photos, which shows, which locations have taken days and days to put together. I have dug deep into the computer archives. Along the way, I have found some fun projects from back when I started both with Graphic45 and other great companies.  I thought I would post them here first to show you where I began and to hopefully inspire you to keep creating no matter what!

These projects are all from the 2009-2010 era, so they go way back.  It was fun to see what I did so many years ago.  I am still crafting my style, and I am proud of all that I have accomplished in this time, but the best part is all the amazing people that I have in my life because of crafting.  Thank you so much for following me and encouraging me.  Some of you have been with me since the beginning, and for that I humbly thank you!

 

I hope this inspires you to never stop creating, we all start somewhere...just keep going!!

Best Blogger Contest with FaveCrafts.com. Please vote!

Fly Away With This Child Size Fairy Dress Form with Graphic45 and Testors Glitter Brilliance!

Its The FaveCrafts.com Best Blogger Contest Time and I would love if you would vote for little ol' me!

 

Ok, its that time of year again. The awesome FaveCrafts.com hosts a spectacular networking event at the Creativation show each year. This gives us bloggers and industry influencers a chance to meet one on one with some great companies to establish relationships. We use the sponsor's products to create a project and then the top 20 finalists compete in the Best Blogger Contest.

https://www.favecrafts.com/contest/Blogger-Contest-2018

Well, guess what? It's that time for you to vote and hoping for you to choose little ol' me and my Graphic 45 dress form that is lathered with Testors Glitter Brilliance making it twinkle like a fairy. We only have until the 19th, you can vote every day! The winner is chosen by popular vote, so with 4,996 facebook friends, family and awesome peeps in crafty groups, I am so calling you all out! I need your help and please share if you like.

VOTING BEGINS TODAY through April 16th. Vote once a day, click on the link below, find the full-size purple and blue fairy dress form (there are two dress forms, one is not mine but done by a very talented designer)

https://www.favecrafts.com/contest/Blogger-Contest-2018

With the new year...... comes new art with Canvas Corp and Indigoblu!

If you follow me on Facebook you will have read the story about my ONE LITTLE WORD.  I do not do resolutions for the New Year, I choose one little word to follow throughout the year.

This year is "LIVE" because with all that will be happening on all levels in my life in the upcoming year I really needed an entire dictionary to cover it all.  So I chose to just LIVE, to live each moment like its my last because honestly it could be.  So no regrets, learn to make time for myself, my family and friends.  Not let anyone in that does not belong in my tribe and allow them to destroy me, my family or my businesses like I have in the past.  I have worked hard to make many changes in the last four years.  And this will be the most poignant year yet.  

One thing I promised was to create more art this year.  And guess what....I AM!  Its not done, but wanted to share anyway!

This canvas has been sitting in my studio for almost a year.  It is just a bunch of items layered and heavily gesso'd but I put it aside and have not known what to do with itn since.  So I had some paints sitting on my desk wondering what to do and noticed the canvas leaning against the desk on the floor.

Supplies used: A Vintage Girl chipboard dress form, Canvas Corp: DIY Home Decor, Canvas, burlap. Indigoblu Acrylic Paint. Blumenthal Lansing buttons, Want2Scrap bling, Prima flowers, Mon Ami Gabby bling ribbon, dominoes and other chipboard.

A close up:

Thank you for stopping by and keep an eye out for more art!

Much craft love,
A Vintage Girl by Candy

Paint, Stamps and Fussy Cutting with Indigoblu!

Visit the Indigoblu Blog HERE.

I am up on the Indigo Blu blog today, come on over and see what I did with paint and stamps and whole lot of fussy cutting to create a beautiful layout showing a part of our incredible trip to Scrap Addicts in Canada last year.

 

May Arts & Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Blog Hoppin!

5" x 5" Corrugated Cardboard Greeting Card

I love using twine to create new shapes and the Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Adhesive sheets make it so easy to accomplish.  

 

Cut out the tree shape, remove the backing sheet and expose the adhesive side face up.

Cut pieces of the May Arts twine and place down on the adhesive  Keep stacking pieces one above the other.

Keep adding the pieces until the surface is completely covered,

 

 

Turn the sheet over and trim the extra off the edges.

Carefully remove the backing leaving the adhesive on the back side of the twine and adhere to the front of the card.

 

 

Add pearls to the front of the tree to represent bulbs on the tree.

Add the words "Happy Holidays" with the alphabet set.

 

Be Inspired. Always.

 

The issue of Just Steampunk 2 is out, check out the projects that were featured!

This month the second edition of Just Steampunk by Scott Publications came out.  I am thrilled to be a part of both the first edition and now the second edition and love seeing some of my dear friends included in this issue, including a cover shot of Terre Fry's amazing airship!

An upclose look at the projects that I created for this issue and all the wonderful products I used to create them!

First we have some steampunk bottles using Graphic 45, Flourish with a Bling, May Arts, Ranger.

Steampunk Banner
Graphic 45, Flourish with a Bling, May Arts,, Blumenthal Lansing Buttons, 7Gypsies and Ranger, 

 

And the final project is an altered printers tray using Graphic 45, Blumenthal Lansing Buttons, May Arts, Ranger, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L, GlueArts.

These were such fun to make and hope they inspire you to get your alter on!

Its getting cool and spooky around here!

I have been having so much fun with the wonderful fall and halloween dies from Spellbinders and just had to share some of it with you.  I shared this layout today and how I put it together.  I loce that I got the handcut look with dies and stickers.  To see the full post, head on over to http://bit.ly/spookylayout on the Spellbinders blog! 

I also tried out a new technique (to me) by heat embossing the stenciled area of a Spellbinders die cut.  And I made a card!  The funny thing was that it was so easy to make, I am getting the hang of this I think!!

 I hope you are enjoying the Fall weather and getting ready for the holidays!