A Vintage Journey - Vintage Travel and Luggage

Hello Friends and Happy New Year to all of you!

What better way to start the New Year at A Vintage Journey than to have a 'Vintage Travel and Luggage' theme for our next challenge?  Brenda is our lovely and talented hostess this month.  For this challenge we would like you to let your imagination carry you back to the bygone eras, setting off on an exciting journey for the New Year.  Keeping it in Tim's style, we would love to see what item of luggage or mode of transport you would use on your journey - think hand luggage, travel trunks, hat boxes, hot air balloons, ships and trains.

I would love to have lived in a bygone era and perhaps travelled on the original Orient Express but since the Tim Holtz stamp I used features a North American steam engine, I will have to go with a wonderful trip I did a few years back, up the western seaboard of Canada, on one of these beautiful trains.

To create the background I used Tim's travel embossing folder, being careful to match up the pattern for the second pass through.  I used Tim's Sized Oval die to cut the aperture.  I lightly coloured the embossed surface with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.  I wanted the oval to be raised so that the train would look like it was coming through a tunnel.  However, it looked a little too dark so I simply used Blueprint Sketch Distress Ink and the spritz and flick technique to create a sky background instead.  The embossed layer was added to the top using foam pads to create a raised aperture.

The train was stamped and coloured using Distress Markers and I fussy cut it and added it through the aperture hole.  I attached a game spinner to one of the wheels for added interest.

The word band was first coated in Rusty Hinge Distress Paint to make the words more visible, I wiped away the excess before adding it to the card.

The tickets are from the same stamp set, I stamped and cut them out and aged them with Antique Linen Distress Ink.  I punched out a date to make the ticket look more authentic.

I mounted the piece onto black card and then onto a Kraft card blank.

I do hope you will be able to enter Brenda's challenge over at A Vintage Journey.  As always there is a great prize of £20 from our amazing Sponsor, Country View Crafts, for one randomly chosen entrant and the Design Team will choose three other Pinworthies.

As always, thanks for stopping by, all comments are greatly appreciated.  I do hope I don't lose any of you with the changes Blogger/Google is making over the next couple of weeks.

Take care.  Hugs,  Anne xxx