Happy Birthday to A Vintage Journey!

Hello, I'm honored to be a guest on the A Vintage Journey blog today and to help celebrate its 3rd birthday! If you came from there, welcome and here's the scoop on how I put this all together. My wee little fairy house is tucked in so nicely in its woodland lantern home.

 

 Top view:

To add the texture to the plain, boring metal lantern, I brushed on Prima's Clear Crackle Texture Paste. When it was dry I used a combination of different green Distress Paints and a wash of watered down DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic Sap Green to make it look mossy and worn. The wash soaks into all the crackle texture and makes it stand out.

The house is created with Tim Holtz's Village Collection dies. I love these little houses! You start out with the base Village Dwelling and then there all sorts of accessory dies to change it up. I used the Village Surf Shack die for the porch and the Village Gingerbread and Village Bungalow for the window treatments. For the siding, Tim Holtz has an excellent video tutorial on how to make it from the Distress Woodgrain Cardstock. It's at the end of his Halloween Village Manor video but it worked perfectly for this project with more fairy appropriate colors of course (pink, brown, green and Perfect Pearls mist for shimmer).

The roof I made from some white paper Prima leaves I colored with Distress Sprays. There were three different sizes in the package so I just played around with placement and where to trim to make everything fit.

Inside the lantern I made a base of styrofoam and foam core board pieces to build up the "fairy hill".

I used pieces of sheet moss (purchased at the craft store) to fill in the gaps and cover the base. I worked from back to front adding the moss (glue gun made it easy!) and the little flowers, mushrooms and other details.

Can't get to the back once the house is in!

Here all the rear elements were in place so I glued the house in. I started working on the sides and then finished with the front. Here are some more final details of the interior (warning, a bunch more photos!):

The flowers are a combo of silk flowers, Prima paper flowers and
handmade ones cut with the Tiny Tattered Florals dies.

I added little lace curtains in the windows.

The vintage mushrooms are from my stash.

Wait, there's more! (Lots to see. ;-) )

Whew, that was a long post! Thanks for hanging in there. If you haven't already, be sure to check out the A Vintage Journey March Challenge "All Aboard". There is no theme this time, they just want you to join in and help them celebrate their birthday. =)

I'm also entering this into the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, Handmade Flowers (for the little Tiny Tattered Florals my fairy is growing) and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Bit O' Green (lots of green here and I'm sure the fairy has leprechaun friends).

I'm also now on Instagram! (finally!!) You can find me @creativejuicefreshsqueezed if you'd like to keep tabs on me that way.

The supplies I used for this project can be found at Sizzix or Simon Says Stamp. Follow the links below and a shopping you may go!

Tim Holtz Sizzix Die VILLAGE DWELLING Bigz XL 660992	Village Dwelling	Village Gingerbread	RESERVE Tim Holtz Sizzix VILLAGE GINGERBREAD Bigz Die 661608	Village Surf Shack	RESERVE Tim Holtz Sizzix Die VILLAGE SURF SHACK Bigz 661208
Tim Holtz Sizzix VILLAGE COTTAGE Bigz Die 661196	Village Bungalow	Tiny Tattered Florals	Tim Holtz Sizzix TINY TATTERED FLORALS Thinlits Die 660227	RESERVE Tim Holtz DISTRESS WOODGRAIN CARDSTOCK Ranger Ink TDA51022	Ranger Perfect Pearls Mist BISCOTTI Glimmer Spray PPM31253
Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain OLD PAPER Ranger TSS42365	Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain TEA DYE Ranger TSS42563	Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain TATTERED ROSE Ranger TSS42556	Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain PEELED PAINT Ranger TSS42389	Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain MOWED LAWN Ranger TSS42341	*Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival POTTING SOIL Ink Pad AID38979
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad PEELED PAINT Ranger TIM20233	Prima Flowers CLEAR CRACKLE TEXTURE PASTE Art Extravagance 961541	Tim Holtz Distress Paint FOREST MOSS Ranger TDD36364	Tim Holtz Distress Paint PEELED PAINT Ranger TDD36401	*Tim Holtz Distress Paint CRUSHED OLIVE Ranger TDD38504	*Tim Holtz Distress Paint GATHERED TWIGS Ranger TDD38542
Tim Holtz Distress Paint BRUSHED CORDUROY Ranger TDD39709	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayon PEELED PAINT TDB49623	*Tim Holtz Idea-ology SWIVEL CLASPS Hardware Metal Jewelry	Tim Holtz Idea-ology GUMDROPS Ornamental Embellishment TH93183	*Tim Holtz Idea-ology PHILOSOPHY TAGS Hardware Metal Charm TH92678	*Tim Holtz Idea-ology 75 JUMP RINGS Hardware Attach Ring

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