Playing Tic Tac Toe at A Vintage Journey

Hi everyone and welcome to another Friday post. It's the start of a new challenge over at A Vintage Journey and here's what our host Annie has to say; "With so many Tim Holtz/Ranger and any other similar products we would like you to choose at least three items from the grid below and incorporate them in your projects. You can choose items horizontally/vertically or diagonally, it's your decision. Please, please include the name of the items you are using within your post, not just in the link to the challenge."

Idea-ology or any metal embellishment	Sprays	Ribbon/twine
Paint	Ephemera	Die cuts
Foil Tape	Texture Fades	Stains

Remember, we need to see Tim Holtz' style evident in your finished projects. As always, our winner will receive a £10 shop voucher from our wonderful sponsor, Country View Crafts as well as a blog badge and the opportunity to join us here as a guest for a future month's challenge. We also award 'Pinworthy' badges to three runners up.

If you are a regular contributor to the A Vintage Journey challenges or haven't yet taken the plunge you'll need to keep your eyes peeled in the coming weeks; there are major changes afoot! For further details see the new challenge post over at A Vintage Journey.

Sometimes fate plays a hand in what you end up creating and this time was definitely one of those occasions. I'd already made my selection from the Tic Tac Toe grid - Sprays, Ephemera, Texture Fades - and then Tim produced his February 2015 Tag challenge HERE... based on ephemera and my favourite faux quilt look! Well it had to be done, so how did I incorporate Sprays and Texture Fades?

I love Tim's ephemera packs and grabbed a few travel themed ones to start with. They gave me a basic blue, brown, red colour scheme. Next, texture was needed to add some dimension to the 'quilt'. To make a good colour matched card I used spritzes of Weathered Wood, Iced Spruce and Antique Linen Distress Spray Stains, finishing it by mopping up the excess to add blotches of extra colour. Having run three separate pieces through different Texture Fades it was time to assemble the background.

Tim brushed Picket Fence Distress Paint across his tag - I went for the Frayed Burlap version and then used a Frayed Burlap Distress Marker and fine nib water brush to add the shading around each section. To finish the background I machine stitched around the edge a couple of times.

 Rather than use felt I layered some Mulberry fabric and die cut the globe. All the metal portions were die cut, edged with Jet Black Archival Ink and 'rusted' with Frayed Burlap Distress Paint (wiped away after being semi-dried). I used the same technique on the Idea-Ology Word Band, which really helped to age it, and added a line of Film Strip Ribbon.

So there you have it, my Tic Tac Toe project and this month's entry to Tim's 12 Tags of 2015 February Tag challenge. Now I encourage you to pop on over to A Vintage Journey to take a look at the amazing creations from my fellow Creative Guides.

I'll be back tomorrow with a new offering for you over at IndigoBlu.
In the meantime have a great end to your week and take care of yourselves, Jenny xxx