Themed Thursday: Vintage Technology

Hello there peeps!  It's Shay here.  For today's Themed Thursday I was inspired by our recent Vintage Design Team Blog Hop.  A little side tracking here: I strenuously suggest checking out this month's Blog Hop if you have not already for awesome projects and to welcome our new design team members, Cathi and Irit.  Don't forget to also check out Irit's deco-riffic project in her very first post here on The Aviary and Dana's glorious tutorial and altered box. 

As a departure from my own blog hop project, I wanted to do a more colorful spin on vintage. 

I pulled out my well loved Vintage Technology stamp set and some other stamp sets like Flourish Fun 1, Day Framer, Life Framer and Tabs & Banners, some journaling cards, lots of patterned paper and a few other items. 

Card No. 1

The focal point of the card is a journal card I stamped the typewriter from Vintage Technology upon in black ink and colored in with Copics.  The sheet of paper also from Vintage Technology I stamped in black ink and wrote in the "hello" and attached to the typewriter.  I added a few haphazard layers of paper, another journaling card and punched cardstock.  I made sure to adhere the larger pieces only in the center.  I sewed the layers together following the banner shape of the journaling card.  I made sure to curl up the edges and distress the edges of the journaling card.  The photo corner is actually a corner of the Life Framer frame stamped onto patterned paper and trimmed.

I added bits of doily and glitter tape.  I adhered these layers to a white cardstock base that I stamped with Flourish Fun 1 in grey ink and sprinkled some drops of yellow mist.  Last I added some matte gold sequins.

Card No. 2

The focal point of the card is a journal card I stamped the telephone from Vintage Technology onto in black ink and then added a teal paper pieced telephone without the telephone wire onto the telephone stamped directly upon the journaling card.  I stamped the double ended banner on orange patterned paper and cut off one end.  On the banner I stamped "take note" from Day Framer.  I adhered the banner with the Tiny Attacher.  I added a few haphazard layers of paper.  I made sure to adhere the larger pieces only in the center.  I sewed the layers together.  I made sure to curl up the edges and distress the edges of the journaling card.  The photo corner is actually a corner of the Life Framer frame stamped onto patterned paper and trimmed.

I added bits of doily, washi and glitter tape.  I adhered these layers to a white cardstock base that I stamped with Flourish Fun 1 in grey ink and sprinkled some drops of green mist.  Last I added some matte gold sequins.

Card No. 3 (the 1970's card according to my sister)

The focal point of the card is a journal card I stamped the cassette tape from Vintage Technology upon in black ink and colored in with Copics and a little highlights using a Uniball white pen.  The "best day ever" is from the Day Framer and happily fits perfectly on the cassette.  I added a few haphazard layers of paper.  I made sure to adhere the larger pieces only in the center.  I sewed the layers together.  I made sure to curl up the edges and distress the edges of the journaling card.  The photo corner is actually a corner of the Life Framer frame stamped onto patterned paper and trimmed.

I added bits of doily and glitter tape.  I adhered these layers to a white cardstock base that I stamped with Flourish Fun 1 in grey ink and sprinkled some drops of orange mist.  Last I added some matte gold sequins.

You can use any sort of scraps of patterned paper or paper pads to change up the look of these sort of cards like I have done here.  If you are anything like me you have so much lovely patterned paper that this would be a great way to use it and be bold with your choices of pattern and color.  Also fun would be to just decorate journaling cards for scrapbooking and/or Project Life without making them into cards.

I hope you have enjoyed today's Themed Thursday.

We would *love* to see what you make with Paper Wings Productions stamps. Add your projects to Facebook, our flickr group, to Pinterest, comment with a link on this post or even email pictures to us!

Take flight,
Shay.

Supplies:
Stamps:

Ink: Memento in tuxedo black, Tsukineko; weather vane, Jenni Bowlin by Ranger
Journaling cards: Studio Calico
Cardstock: solar white, Neenah Paper
Patterned paper: enchanting "sisters" crazy daisy/blue without you from Just Dreamy 2 collection, My Mind's Eye; lucky me "sisters" forever rings from Abbey Road collection, My Mind's Eye; bloom & grow "bloom" vines from Bloom & Grow collection, My Mind's Eye; chicken pox from June Bug collection, Basic Grey; woolworths from Hometown collection, October Afternoon; canning jar from Modern Homemaker collection, October Afternoon; no. 2 pencil from Schoolhouse collection, October Afternoon; sketchbook 6x6 paper pad, Amy Tangerine/American Crafts
Other: colorless blender (0), cool gray no. 3 (C3), cool gray no. 7 (C7), cool shadow (BG10), moon white (BG11), mignonette (YG11), chartreuse (YG13), barium yellow (Y00), canary yellow (Y02) and loquat (YR12), Copic; black precision pen, American Crafts; signo white pen, Uniball; notebook border punch, Fiskars; sewing machine, Brother; buttercup, doris and sherbert Mister Huey's Color Mists, Studio Calico; 4" doilies, Hobby Lobby; matte gold sequins, Studio Calico; sunflower glitter tape, American Crafts; washi

June Nesting Component Mixed Media Kit

Hi there everyone!  Can you believe it's another new month?  That means we have a *NEW* Nesting Components Mixed Media Kit.  Take a look at the new kit and some fun projects that Norma and Dana made with the kit.  You can purchase the kit by clicking here.

The June Nesting Components Mixed Media Kit contains:

• Summer themed Clip Art Sheet
• Pink Paislee Hope Chest 6x6 paper pad
• Pink Paislee Hope Chest Label Stickers
• Pink Paislee Hope Chest Journal Cards
• Pink Paislee Hope Chest Paper Goods
• Studio Calico Alphabet Sticker Sheet
• Memento Ink Pad - Rich Cocoa
• Laser cut wooden birds
• Metal bird charm
• Brown and light green baker's twine
• Sunshine on a Cloudy Day cling rubber stamp set

retail value over $40, our price $32

How about some close up pictures...

Here's a video of Norma opening the kit.



 Our blog hop that she mentions in the video is next Friday June 7.  She will be giving away the prize here on her blog.

Here are some projects by our design team.

project by Dana

tag by Norma

There will be more projects featured here on the Aviary this week so please check back!  Don't wait to purchase the kit, they are limited edition!  You can purchase one here.

Have a great weekend and enjoy the flight!

Carrie

What's Up Wednesday: Little Box Full of Possibilities

Hello there!

It's Shay here today.  Have seen the awe-inspiring altered box by Norma?  She's amazing!

I have something that bridges the gap between Christmas and the coming new year.  Do you have a friend who is crafty or you wish to introduce to stamping and/or memory keeping?  Journaling cards are very popular right now for use in scrapbook layouts, Project Life, minibooks and cards.  They are easy to make and with stamps a breeze to customize.  Why not create a coordinating set as a gift?  It also won't take too much time as we are all going down to the wire with Christmas less than a week away.

I picked out some patterned paper in a color scheme that I liked and cut out a few 3x4 inch rectangles from the papers.  I then cut out some 3x4 inch rectangles from cream cardstock.  I grabbed some stamps and took my ink color cues from the papers.  I also made a little box to hold the cards from patterned paper which I decorated with a tag from Holiday Tags set that I stamped "to: from:" stamp in the same set.  So cute!   And for an extra special gift add a gift card or gift certificate to your favorite stamp company (wink wink) to the gift to encourage them to create their own journaling cards.

I made some super simple journaling cards, but there are so many options out there.  The fun of this project is that you can decorate your 3x4 canvas with any stamps you want.  An alphabet can become a fun monogram (try Whimsical Pattern Alphabet or Funky Alphabet) to stand for a friend's child's name, stamp out words or names with Funky Lower Case or Perfect Alphabet or numbers from Perfect Number stand for a month (imagine doing numbers to mark the month's of life of a newborn).  The Paris or London sets are perfect for travel themes.  If your friend loves angels, for instance, then the Angels cling stamp set would be lovely stamped in a soft ink color that can be written on later.  Go for pretty and elaborate or clean and simple to suit your recipient's tastes.  Round the corners, use different punches on the cards, die cut shapes out of the card or add shapes to the cards.  Change up the colors for their favorites.  There are really so many possibilities!

Journaling Cards can be used to make a minibook or tags by punching a hole, a beginning to a card in addition to being used on scrapbook layouts and Project Life.  They can be as embellished or not as embellished as desired.  They are pretty versatile and awesome!

I hope you ink up some Paper Wings Productions stamps and create some journaling cards!  We would love to see what you make with Paper Wings Productions stamps.  Add your projects to our flickr group, to Pinterest, comment with a link on this post or even email pictures to us!

AND don't forget to enter to the pin it to win it contest to get free Paper Wing Production stamp goodness!

Happiest of holidays to you all!

Shay.

Stamps: Perfect Number, Holiday Tags, Graph Journaling Lines, Holiday, Perfect Alphabet, Remember, School Paper Journaling Lines, Tabs and Banners, Celebrate, Happy (set like Holiday, Remember, Celebrate, Merry and Thankful)
Ink: Jenni Bowlin for Ranger in spice tin, lemon drop, speckled egg, stick candy and seed packet; Memento by Tsukineko in tuxedo black
Cardstock: Neenah Paper
Patterned Paper: October Afternoon, My Mind's Eye
Other: Copic markers; American Crafts glitter tape; washi tape (to close box)