Welcome to November! This month's A Vintage Journey Challenge has just been posted. (AVJ is based in Great Britain so it is 5 hours ahead of us here on the East Coast of the USA)
Deb is our fearless leader this month and her challenge is "Window on Your World".
Here's her description of the challenge:
This month we would like to see some kind of window or tunneled element
in your creations. Think hollowed out books, multiple layers with
openings to see what has gone before, hidden flaps or windows that when
opened reveal a secret element. Just remember to create in one of our
preferred styles of vintage, shabby, mixed media, art journaling,
industrial, timeworn or steampunk.
For my project, I created a window into a magical snowy white forest - complete with a little deer and several cardinals!
I used the largest Vignette Box to house my layered dimensional scene.
I tucked a couple of battery operated tea lights inside to help illuminate the scene inside.
Here it is with the lights shut off - hard to get a good photo of it being lit up, but you get the idea, right?
The Vignette Box was not deep enough for the tea lights - so I started gluing coffee stirrers on all the edges to build it out.
When I got to 10 layers - it was deep enough to hold the tea lights within the scene!
All the dies are from the Holiday Shadow Box set from Sizzix.
(accept for the lacey edge die that I didn't end up using anyway!)
I embossed everything in Eileen Hull's White Wonder Molten Dimensions Embossing powder from Emerald Creek - it leaves a wonderful thick bumpy layer. I did not emboss the snowflakes, they are too small and detailed so I just left them as plain white card stock.
Then I started layering my scene inside. The die cut pieces all have tabs on the bottom (to be able to create a dimensional scene) so I adhered some of them into the middle of the box using the tabs. Some I cut down and attached to the back with foam dots. I had to cut down the outside die cut frame piece to fit the smaller height of the box and so adhered one of the hillsides directly to the front to cover the bottom edge.
The sweet little cardinals stamps and dies are from the Fence Line Winter sets from Papertrey Ink.
I adhered Tim Holtz Natural Red/Cream Trimmings to cover the layers of coffee stirrers on the front edge of the box!
A pretty window scene decoration for Christmas!
(although I can't display it until after Thanksgiviing - per my mother's rules!!)
You'll find lots of inspiration from the other Creative Guides over at A Vintage Journey. Please show us your window on the world! You have all month to enter!
I'm also linking my project to:
Anything Goes.
Paper: White cardstock - Papertrey Ink, Red Kraft Core Core-dinations.
Ink: Versamark, True Black, Pure Poppy - Papertrey Ink
Accessories: Holiday Shadow Box Dies - Sizzix, Largest Vignette Box - Tim Holtz/Idea-ology, coffee stirrers - Starbucks, battery Tea Lights - Amazon, White Wonder Molten Dimensions Embossing Powder - Eileen Hull/Emerald Creek, Trimmings/Natural Red/Cream - Tim Holtz/Idea-ology, ScorTape Tombow Glue
15 comments:
Julia, such a lovely look into your enchanted forest. Just love everything about it. Hugs, S@ndy
Wow, what a magical snowy forest scene! The white and red colour palette against the wooden backdrop looks so elegant and the snowy magic that you created is amazing 😁. I loved seeing how it all came together too, the way that you layered the dies is stunning! Happy November! Hugs, Jo x
This is so charming, Julia. Those snowy textures are gorgeous with a wonderfully sparkly look - and I love the simplicity of the white snowflakes against the wood of the background. Fabulous!
Alison x
This is a magical scene, Julia! I love that it lights up! Extra special!
Julia, that is such a wonderful winter scene! Love all the depth and dimension! Perfect to put on a mantelpiece at Christmas!
What an absolutely fabulous creation - good idea with the sticks to make the box deeper. Loving the embossing powder look, and the cardinals, and the layers - I could go on, but basically - love it. Thank you so much for sharing and joining us at The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge :) Lynda DT
Julia, you really have created a stunning shadow box! I love that you kept the colours to red and white, it is so elegant. Of course, the fact that it lights up is just the icing on the cake. Hope you have a lovely weekend. Hugs, Anne xx
What a gorgeous snowy place, and all those layers takes vision and patience! LOVE the little deer, and love the light!
What a creative and beautiful magical snowy white forest you've created. I Love how you layered up the edges with the coffee stirrers. Fabulous scene making, so pretty and love the extra detailing of including the light. I love it x.
A super clever project Juliaa, it came together beautifully, the scene is just lovely!!
What a great wintry scene you have created, Julia! I love the simplicity of the white against the rustic wood. Great farmhouse charm to this vignette, and you carried it off beautifully! Lot's of love and care went into building up the box-yay you!
This is AMAZING, Julia. So very creative and clever how you built up the box and created this gorgeous winter scene, complete with lighting effects! All your hard work shows this is a labour of love. xx
What a fabulous wintery scene Julia and I adore that it lights up! Wonderful layers as you peer deeper into the forest, thanks so much for sharing it, Deb xo
Amazing box Julia! I adore the layers and your choice of colors is fantastic and so festive! Adorable project! barbara
This is just so wonderful , Julia. Adore how you have kept it mainly white with just those pops of red. Fabulous layering and fantastic use of the dies to create such a beautiful wintery white wonderland scene .
tfs x
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