Saturday Showcase - AALL & Create Blossomed Numbers

Hi there.  It is Cec here to bring you the Saturday Showcase this week.  When you have been checking out all the wonderful new products that are coming to The Funkie Junkie Boutique you will notice that the shop will be carrying some of the AALL & Create line of stamps so since I have a couple of them I thought I would show you what a treat you are in for.  I have made a canvas using the Blossomed Numbers stamp set.

The AALL & Create stamps are clear stamps made of photopolymer and this one is an A4 size - that is one big stamp 8.27" × 11.69" - but it has two distinct images so the first thing I did was cut them apart to make them a little easier to use.

I would recommend that you condition your AALL & Create stamps before you use them for the first time.  I did not do that with one of the pieces and didn't get as great an image as I wanted so I did the smaller section (the one I used for this project) and was much happier with the result. I will follow up with the other image.

Also, in case you are more used to using red rubber stamps and Archival Ink like I was, don't panic when you notice that the Archival Ink tends to really stain the clear stamp but it doesn't harm it.  Just make sure you have some stamp cleaner available to clean your stamps.

OK, so now that the technical stuff is out of the way, here is how to create this canvas:

• Stamp the smaller image on a piece of good tissue paper (I used Memento Tuxedo Black to ink it this time)

• Crumple up some inexpensive (a.k.a. cheap) tissue (Dollarama), flatten it back out and glue to the canvas
• Tear the tissue around the image and glue on next
• Use Texture Paste (Ranger) through a Checkered Dots stencil (Dylusions) to add texture on opposite corners
• Cover the canvas top and sides with White Gesso (Dina Wakley)

• Paint the canvas completely with Lime Acrylic Paint (Dina Wakley)
• Add a few second generation stamp markings using Jet Black Archival Ink (Ranger)
• and a number stamp from the Ultimate Grunge set (Tim Holtz)
• Use a scruffy paint brush to add Evergreen and Peacock Acrylic Paint (Dina Wakley) randomly 
• Add more marks with Peat Moss Archival Ink (Wendy Vecchi) and a Bubbles stencil (Tim Holtz)

• Use Jet Black Archival Ink to stamp the flower portion of the stamp twice onto card stock

• Ink both flower images with Scattered Straw, Wild Honey and Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink (Tim Holtz)
• Go back and add some Fired Brick DI (not shown in process photo)
• Fussy cut both flowers

• Using a Micron Pigma Pen and the Dylusions stencil, draw some circles on card stock and give them some markings
• Ink the circles with Scattered Straw and Wild Honey DI and then fussy cut them
• Ink some card stock with Forest Moss DI and then cut numbers using an Alphanumeric Die Set (Tim Holtz)
• Use some Wild Honey DI to ink a piece of drywall mesh tape
• Create computer-generated text for a sentiment and ink the pieces with Wild Honey and Fired Brick DI
• Add some lengths of raffia on top of the stem area of the stamped image
• Add both flowers popping each of them up with some dimensional foam

If you want to play with these great stamps run over to the shop and get your pre-order in and you should be ready to go soon since February is almost over.

Supplies List:

(FEBRUARY PRE-ORDER) AALL & Create A4 Stamp Set - Blossomed Numbers #109
Dina Wakley Media Mediums - White Gesso MDM41689
Ranger Texture Paste Opaque Matte INK44444
Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Bubble THS002
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Wild Honey, Scattered Straw, Spiced Marmalade, Fired Brick, Forest Moss
Dina Wakley Acrylic Paints - Lime, Evergreen, Peacock
Ranger Archival Ink Pad - Jet Black AIP31468
Scor Tape
Ranger ADHESIVE - WHITE FOAM ROLL 1/2" X 1/16"x 2 YDS. IWT40514
Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool - With 4 Blending Foams IBT40965
Wendy Becchi Peat Moss Archival Ink Pad
8" x 8" Deep Stretched Canvas
Dylusiona Checkered Dots Stencil
Momento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
Mesh Drywall Tape
Pigma Micron Pen
Tim Holtz Alpha Numeric Die Set 660056

Guest Designer - Veana R.

Please say hello and give a warm welcome to our Guest Designer for the Leap Into the Odd challenge.  Veana R. can be found at her blog simply named Veana R and was the Design Team's Top pick for the Tic Tac Toe challenge.

Hi ! My name is Zvezdana Rot , aka Veana R. With my husband, teenager with special needs and lovely puppy Gaja, we live in a beautiful house, near the Adriatic sea. I come from Europe, Slovenia - the only country in the world that has the word love in its own name, so let's stay in love.

I love my garden, where I am inspired by colourful and fragrant flowers, I love reading, because one life is not enough for my curiosity and I love scrapbooking, crafting and Mixed Media.

My crafting began 4 years ago with greeting cards for my family and friends. In June 2017 I started writing my own blog and I can say that now I am enjoying my hobby more every day. Today I am here at TFJB Challenge Blog as Guest Designer. Thanks for this opportunity!

The Challenge Theme is Leap Into The Odd! The definition of Odd is unusual or strange. There is something unusual in my card. 

Did you find all the strange and odd things on it? The first one is that the card has a cut line all around , so you can see through and the old paper with text is glued inside the card. Another strange thing is my clock, as it is turned up side down because I wanted the time show 4.30 AM, when roosters are crowing.

There are even more odd items and if you would like to know more, please visit my blog. Wishing you a beautiful day!

Hugs, Veana

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Now that you are curious, pop on over to Veana's blog and check her card out and when you are finished come on back and share your creation with something odd about it. The challenge can be found HERE and runs through Tuesday, March 3rd at 11:55 pm EST.

Leap into the Odd

Hi there! Suzz here to bring you the latest Funkie Junkie Boutique Challenge!
2020 is a leap year which means we will have an additional day in February ending on an odd number of days. The definition of odd is "different from what is usual or expected; strange." My challenge to you is to create something odd or unusual. Odd or unusual could include: unusual colors for an images or embellishments (black rose or blue dog), proportions of the size of items to each other (Alice in Wonderland - the small door with a full size Alice), using something for an embellishment that you wouldn't expect (shoe lace or a tea bag). Also you must tell us what is odd or unusual in your project when you share it with us!

The winner will earn a chance to be a Guest Designer at a future date here at The Funkie Junkie Boutique blog, and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the draw for the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. There are also Top 3 Badges for three additional outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team.

The guidelines for entering are simple; create a new vintage or shabby chic project following the challenge theme, link it below to your post (not just your blog) and also include a link back to this challenge in your post. You can combine our challenge with up to 10 challenges (including this one) to be in with a chance of winning. If you are entering through a public forum (such as Instagram) you'll need to include the words 'Funkie Junkie Boutique Challenge'. Also, please be sure to turn off your Word Verification so our Design Team can leave comments on your blogs. Make sure you follow these rules as unfortunately, we have had to eliminate entrants from the prize draws in the past.

Here is all the DT inspiration to get your creative juices flowing!  To get all the details of their projects and what is odd or unusual about their art, just click on their blog name and you will be taken directly to their blog.

Cec Wintonyk - CW Creations

Suzanne Czosek - Suzz's Stamping Spot

Sara Emily Barker - sarascloset

Maggi Harding - Scrap, Travel & Bark

Jenny Marples - Pushing The Right Buttons

I hope this has you thinking about what you can create featuring something odd or unusual!   Use the link below to enter and be in with a chance of winning.

Saturday Showcase - Stamperia House of Roses

Hi!  Suzz here for the Saturday Showcase.  Today I am featuring the new Stamperia House of Roses papers.

These papers are not lacking roses or beautiful romantic images to create beautiful cards.

I started with sorting through the different papers and picking images to use as my focal point and backgrounds to highlight the images. 

 This was my leftover scraps inspired card.  I took some of the pieces that were left from my other cards to assemble a mix of roses and papers.

Steps:

1.  Assemble scraps from other projects.  (Don't forget the die cuts you didn't use or the ribbon bits)
2.  Tear edge of paper.  Distress edges with distressing tool.  Sponge edges with distress ink.
3.   Cut second piece of paper and tear along the same lines as the first paper.  Sponge edges with distress ink.
4.  Layer papers together.
5.  Sponge die cut crochet pieces and attach along edges of the torn surface.
6. Cut out rose images.  Sponge dye ink on edges of cut out images. (This help hides where your cutting might not be as clean. :)
7. Die cut butterfly from excess paper bag.  I used the material that my stamps were wrapped in from my recent order from The Funkie Junkie.
8.  Sponge edges of butterfly with a mix of pink and brown oxide ink.  Stamp script over butterfly.
9.  Roll up extra piece of paper and put a glue dot to hold it together.  Tie twine around and attach to butterfly.
10.  Layer all the flowers and butterfly together with pop dots and tape.

Next I spied this sweet bird and birdhouse on one of the smaller vignettes in the pack. 
 

 I decided to cut out the bird and bird house to layer them with pop dots to add dimension.

 Steps:

1. Cut background panel.  Sponge edges with distress ink.
2. Cut out panel with bird and birdhouse.  Cut out bird and birdhouse.
3. Die cut strips of crochet lace.  Sponge with distress ink.
4. Cut out mini tag and sponge with distress ink.
5. Die Mummy Cloth and flowers with a mix of distress oxide pink and brown distress ink spray.
6. Attach lace trim around the panel with the cut out birdhouse and bird.
7. Attach panel with trim to background panel.
8. Pop dot bird and bird house and place over cut out on panel.
9. Add nest, crochet trim, and flowers to the panel.
10. Add tag with stickers and twine bow.

After that card was assembled I went on to create one more card.

 For this one I was inspired by another panel that I cut out and used as the backdrop to a few other embellishments.

Steps:
1.  Cut background paper.
2.  Apply embossing paste to background using layering stencil. Let dry. Sponge with brown dye ink. 
3.  Cut panel and clock from other sheets of paper.
4.  Sponge all edges with dye ink.
5.  Die cut butterfly.
6.  Spray with distress oxide ink and distress stain spray the butterfly, flowers, mummy cloth.
7.  Roll up scrap papers and glue dot the end to the side and attach to the background.
8. Assemble and layer the images and embellishments.

There is still time to participate in our Love is all around Us challenge until 11:55 pm Easter Time on Tuesday, Feburary 18th.

 Suzz


Products:
Stamperia House of Roses 8x8 Pad 
Idea-Ology Bouquet Findings
Idea-Ology Word Bands
Idea-Ology Tim Holtz Metallic Quotations
Idea-Ology Mummy Cloth
Sizzix Tattered Butterfly
Sizzix Thinlit Dies - Flutter
Stampers Anonymous -  Natures Wonder
Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Ground Espresso
Ranger Distress Oxide Spray - Picked Raspberry
Ranger Distress Oxide Ink - Ground Espresso, Picked Raspberry
Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black
Ranger Layering Stencil - Doily 
Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste White
Floral Wood Button 
Prima Say it in Crystals

Challenge Winners - Repeat Performance

It is time to announce our winners for the Repeat Performance challenge. Thank you to all who entered and played along. There were great entries from makers ready to give their 'trash' a second life in art.

The team has chosen this 'Do Nothing Box' by #17 Lyla Larimore as the overall winner. Now this make is so incredible that photos alone don't do it justice so, hoping Lyla doesn't mind, we're sharing her video which explains how it works. And to find out more about how it came together make sure to stop by Lyla's blog post.

Congratulations to Lyla on winning an opportunity to be a Guest Designer at a future date here at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog. You will be contacted shortly with all the details.

And now our picks for the three winners of the The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog Top 3 Badges for this challenge. In numerical order they are #6 ionabunny (Crafty Nomad)  #7 Mary Elizabeth and #12 Elle (Empire of the Cat).

Please email Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com for the codes for the Top 3 badges so that you can display them proudly on your blog.

And finally we have a randomly chosen lucky winner for the $25 gift certificate to The Funkie Junkie Boutique. Our congratulations this time go to #3 Kathi R! Please email Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com for the gift certificate details.

Thank you again to everyone who took part in this challenge from all of us here at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog  and congratulations to all our winners.

The current challenge 'Love Is All Around Us' can be found HERE and runs through Tuesday, February 18th at 11:55 pm EST so we hope you will join us.

Saturday Showcase Featuring Ciao Bella Papers

Happy Saturday friends, Maggi here; welcome to another Funkie Junkie Saturday Showcase.  The Funkie Junkie Boutique has a new paper line, Ciao Bella, and I am so thrilled!!  You will love all of their collections, especially if you are a Stamperia fan as I think their designs are often similar.

Under the Tuscan Sun

First let's take a look at Under the Tuscan Sun.  WOW, this collection is divine, for me it evoked a feeling of old Europe and made me want to sit on the veranda and sip a glass of wine!  Of course the reds in this collection tug at my heart strings.

The collection includes a page of cut-aparts and I used that as the focal point of this mixed media tag.

To creat the tag, I started with a small Etcetera Tag and masked on a design.  Then I dabbed on some Oxide Ink.  Next I used a burlap stencil and stenciled a burlap pattern randomly on the tag.

Then I tore a couple of pieces of Tim Holtz collage paper and glued to the tag.

Next I a dry brushed Lake Mist paint over the collage paper and parts of the tag.

Next I cut a piece of design paper and I just decided that this funky fold would be cool adhered to the tag.

The final step was to pop up the cut-apart with cardboard and glue to my tag.  Well, of course I had to add some flowers.  I used Little Birdie flowers and gave them a dry brushing of paint so they would blend nicely with the tag.  A few paint spatters, and it's done!

You can see the texture in the background in these two photos.  Onee of my favorite stamps is a sponge stamp that stamps little circles and I used that randomly on the background.

Here's a quick and easy tag that I made using this same collection.  I used a Graphic 45 square tag and covered it with a layer of design paper and topped it with a cut-apart.  Then I stamped on the sentiment, added a couple flowers, 10 minutes tops.  Love that!

Supplies from The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Ciao Bella - Under The Tuscan Sun 12x12 Paper Pad

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Rosette

Ranger Texture Paste Opaque Matte

Etcetera Tag (I used small size)

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Bundled Sage

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Barn Door

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Iced Spruce

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Brushed Corduroy

Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Bundled Sage

Tim Holtz Collage Paper-Floral (No longer in the shop, but there are others you could use)

Graphic 45 - Square Tags - Ivory (2nd small tag)

Other Supplies

Tim Holtz Lake Mist Paint

Tim Holtz Burlap Stencil

Little Birdie Flowers

Start Your Engine - A collection for the guys

Ok, time to change gears, LOL!  This is the perfect collection for all the guy layouts.  My husband builds streetrods as his hobby.  The trend in streetrods is "rat rods", i.e. unfinished and ratty looking.  So, here is my husband test driving his rat rod.  I think he had just gotten it drivable when I took this photo.

The paper is so cool and colorful that it really doesn't need a lot of embellishing.  I just masked on a bit of metal markings to mimic the paper under the photo.  I used Tim Holtz's Onyx Metallic Paper under the photo and design paper to break up the bold patterns in the base paper. I liked the shiny look of it, reminded me of oil which is always a part of any garage!

These are chipboard pieces that I heat embossed with Seth Apter Baked Textures by Emerald Creek embossing powders. Love the metallic effect!

It's easy to do multi-colors on chipboard.  I paint on embossing ink and do one color and heat.  After that has cooled off, I paint the next color and so on.  If you want to keep the colors really separate, keep a dry brush near by and brush off any stray embossing powder before heating.

There's a hidden journaling spot here.

Supplies from The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Ciao Bella - Start Your Engines 12x12 Paper Pad

Tim Holtz Idea-ology 8x8 Kraft Stock Paper Metallic 3 - Champagne/Onyx

Tim Holtz Remnant Rubs (The one I used is discontinued but there are similar ones in the shop)

Seth Apter Baked Texture - Chunky Rust

Emerald Creek Allure Powders - Charred Gold

Emerald Creek Allure Powders - Oil Rubbed Bronze

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Typed Tokens

Antique Silver Tone Pickup Truck Charms - Set of 3

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Black Soot

Other Supplies:

Creative Embellishments Chipboard Gears

Creative Embellishments Grunge Gear Corner

Seventies - A simple layout

I've been waiting for a collection like this for years!  If you were part of the flower child and hippy generation then this collection is for you.  It sure spoke to me!

So do you remember this color of orange?  And there was harvest gold and avocado green.  I do not miss those colored appliances!

This layout is really quite simple, just a few layers or paper, a couple of fussy cuts and that's it.  

Here I am in Key West (a long long time ago 😄) soaking up the sun and obviously posing for the camera!  Behind the photo is a pocket with a tag in it for hidden journaling.

This collection has great patterned papers that will take right back to the 70's and 60's.  I fussy cut this for the title and coated it with Glossy Accents and then popped it up with dimensional foam tape to make it really stand out.

There are lots of fun images to fussy cut.

Supplies from The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Ciao Bella - Seventies 12x12 Paper Pad

Ranger ADHESIVE - WHITE FOAM ROLL 1/2" X 1/16"x 2 YDS.

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Rusty Hinge

Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents

Graphic 45 - Regular Tag Album - Kraft

There are other collections from Ciao Bella at The Funkie Junkie Boutique that are perhaps a bit more traditional and they come in 12 x 12, 6 x 6, and A4 paper sizes.  Stop by the shop and take a peek, I bet you'll find something to love!

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today.  All of us here at The Funkie Junkie Boutique appreciate the time it takes you.  Wishing you a very crafty day!

Maggi xxoxo

Guest Designer - Zowie Dixon

Please welcome our Guest Designer for the current challenge, Love is All Around Us.  Zowie Dixon of Crafts from the Fairy Den was the Top Pick from the It's the Holidays challenge.

Hello! my name is Zowie, I found my love of creating art around Eleven years ago, first starting with creating simple scrapbook layouts and then for the last few years working with mixed media and collage. I also love vintage and shabby chic styles of crafting, featuring a lot of old photographs in my artwork. I am so thrilled and honoured to be Guest Designer for TFJB.

Following the 'love is all around' theme, I have created a shabby chic Valentines card. I had this darling vintage image in my craft stash, which I thought would compliment the theme perfectly!

I have used papers from Gecko Galz and keeping with the pink and red colour scheme, I added these beautiful mulberry paper flowers. I have also adhered small wooden numbers to coincide with the date of Valentines day!

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To see all the details of Zowie's very retro Valentine card, just pop on over to her blog post.  When you are finished checking out her creations, come on back and share your project for the challenge.  It runs through 11:55 pm EST on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 and can be found HERE.