Hello my sweet bloggy friends.
Today I am sharing my 200th post with you! To my delight I am joining
A Vintage Journey as Guest Designer for their newest challenge, Spring is in the Air. I am still not ready to dive into bright colors, so I chose a very muted pastel tag for my project. Spring is filled with new life and love and I thought a floral wedding design would be perfect for the theme.
Even though AVJ has broadened its genres to cover more than just Tim Holtz, I couldn't help myself from using some favorite TH products. This beautiful lattice pairs so beautifully with flowers. I made the pink and green flowers with the Tattered Florals die and the dogwood is a McGill punch.
I really wanted to use my stash of Distress embossing powders, so I added yellow and green to my stencil paste and love the texture and color! Tim's new tiny layering stencils are amazing! The Distress EP creates the prettiest resist, more subtle than using white.
I can't get enough of the new rectangular ornate frame. I love cutting them from white watercolor paper and then inking them with various colors to coordinate with my project. Here I've used a simple dripped Glimmer Mist in golden brown. I stamped Tim's butterfly onto inky green paper.
For the topper, a simple embellishment of dyed cloth strips, jute, and an Ideology charm. This background was one of those that you hate covering up, but all in all I was pleased with the variations of texture and color. I hope you like it and are inspired to join AVJ with this month's Spring challenge. Thanks to this fabulously creative crew for having me this month. What a happy Spring indeed! Thanks so much to every one of you who continually supports my blog. Your comments and encouragement mean the world to me.
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Such a delightful spring tag - delicate and vintage, and perfect for the theme and style of A Vintage Journey. Thanks so much for creating such a lovely guest offering this month.
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Hi, Autumn! You have such a talent for selecting interesting, pretty papers, and turning them into fabulously unique beauties! Love the flower's frayed fiber stamens, and how each flower center is so different from the others, yet cohesively brings lovely springtime into your incredible vintage project! Beautiful textures, too! Congratulations on your GD position! Hugs, de
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely way to share your 200th post Autumn - with us at A Vintage Journey! Your tag is a wonderful celebration of Spring (and marriage), the soft tones are so pretty and your flowers, as always, are stunning... Hugs, Anne xx
ReplyDeleteVintage charm at it's best. So soft, elegant and pretty. TFS
ReplyDeleteWhat a totally delightful tag - such pretty Spring colours - I love it!
ReplyDeleteAutumn, this is so pretty and soft! I love everything on your tag, but I think my favorites are how you colored your embossing paste and those flowers! Your flowers are really beautiful and just keep getting better! I have to say you really inspire me! Like you, I have other than Tim Holtz products to use, but so hard not to incorporate his great products on almost every project. Congrats on another Guest Designer post!!!
ReplyDeleteBig congrats on the 200 and the GD spot, Autumn!!! Your tag is beautiful - love that photo!!!!!
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What a gorgeous tag, love the pretty florals, subtle colours and details. Congrats on your GDT spot you have done them proud with this beautiful tag.
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Congratulations on your appearance there, this tag is a doozy of a beauty!!! I'm always team pastel so this makes my heart happy. Gorgeous work on those flowers too. Making flowers is my favorite pastime. :D
ReplyDeletehugs and have a great weekend!!
Lisa x
Autumn, what a delicate and beautiful blend of elements! The dyed fabric sets it off to perfection! Thankyou for joining in with our topic at CountryView Crafts! X
ReplyDeleteThis is just beautiful. I love the picture and the fabric bow.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous tag, the image is fabulous and I love the frame, the colours, flowers and whole design is awesome! :-)
ReplyDeletethanks for joining us on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge
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Lols x x x
Autumn, congratulations on your GDT spot at AVJ; they are lucky to have you aboard once again! I love your tag to bits, but that bow at the top and the frilly stamens on the green flower are hits with me! Beautiful, Beautiful! Hugs!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty!!! xx
ReplyDeleteWhat fun to be featured on the same post at AVJ! I didn't know I'd won until you mentioned it and I'm so pleased, Andy's designs are great for Mixed Media.
ReplyDeleteI thought your GDT piece was gorgeous, the texture, the flowers the Vintage feel. You make it look easy but I know different!
Oh and thanks for entering it in our Country View Challenges, good luck!
DeleteBeautiful tag! I love the soft look of the colours you used. Lovely design!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your guest spot with AVJ! Awesome sauce tag you created with the warm and soft colors. Those stamens are splendid! Such a wonderful vintage feel to this design. Wowzers! Hugz! ~Niki
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your 200th post AND your GD assignment. Quite an accolade to be asked, as there is some phenomenal skill in that group of crafters. Love the softness of the color palette you selected, so perfect with the vintage wedding photo. The lattice was a pretty background for the dimension of the stencil paste and the sweet flowers. It's just beautiful, Autumn. TFS & Happy wkend.
ReplyDeletebeautiful tag Autumn...congrats on your GDT spot at AVJ...thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge...hugs kath xxx
ReplyDeletePopped over to see this beauty in more detail Autumn. A stunning piece, gorgeously layered and embellished. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Nicola x
ReplyDeletelovely tag thanks for playing at Mixed Media Place challenge
ReplyDeleteAutumn...your tag is beautiful! I so love vintage and this tag just screams...or maybe whispers "vintage". I love the layers of die cuts behind the wedding couple. I love the sheet music in the background and the soft colors. Congrats on doing a guest designer post for A Vintage Journey. Well deserved!
ReplyDeleteSo soft and dreamy and absolutely beautiful, Autumn! Great layers and textures... as always. We'd expect nothing less from the talented YOU!
ReplyDeleteOh, Autumn - this is so sweet!! I am very far behind in visits - but so glad to not miss this! Congratulations on all of your design features - wow, girl - you shine!! Very proud of you! xxx Lynn
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful tag! Autumn - lovely soft delicate colour tones with a real vintage feel . Thank you so much for making and sharing this with us over at A Vintage Journey . Congrats too on this being your 200th post .
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Autumn, I love everything about this sweet tag with a wonderful air of nostalgia. The prettiest of colours!
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Lynne
Lovely vintage tag!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous tag thanks for sharing with us on The Artistic Stamper - Debs DT
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining our April Challenge at Country View Challenges and sharing with us your beautiful vintage tag!
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