Saturday Showcase Graphic 45 Travel Album and Sizzix Tim Holtz Timekeeper

Happy Saturday!  Suzz here with a Saturday Showcase featuring the Graphic 45 Kraft Travel Album and the Sizzix Tim Holtz Timekeeper Die.

When I saw the new Kraft Albums from Graphic 45 my eyes lit up and I knew that I had to have one.  This album is fun because it comes with multiple pockets and three notebooks with more pockets.   Each notebook has different types of pages including:  lined paper,  blank pages and grid paper.  I immediately thought of creating a book to use for my house decor ideas and tracking. 

I decided to use the lovely Stamperia Lilac Papers to cover the books inside and out.  I placed the outside cover onto the paper and traced the outline to cut out and attach to the cover.  I painted the surfaces with white gesso to frame the paper and blend the edges.  I used the distressing tool and a bit more gesso to soften the edges.

On the inside I painted the cover first with Gesso.  After that dried I used vellum paper to trace the shapes of the pockets and measured the insert.  I cut the papers to fit and attached with tape.  I distressed the edges with paint and distressing tool.

I followed the same process for the three little booklets inside the album.  They all received their own papers and embellishments. 

The first booklet used one of the postcard images from the paper with the butterfly wings cut out to lift up from the page and accented with a hint of glitter.  The centers were accented with a pearl.

The next book received a hint of vintage photo around the edges and a tag cut out of the coordinating papers.  I found the beautiful flower in my flower drawer that coordinated with the prints.

 The final book emulates the cover with the same soft butterflies and the Timekeeper again die cut from cardboard and painted white to keep a soft effect.  I had to stamp one thing on the project so I slipped in the numbers stamped in a soft gray to blend in.

Once the notebooks slip back in behind the stretchy binding they sit in cover waiting for notes or receipts or papers to be tucked into the cute pockets.

 There is still time to join us in the Home Sweet Home Challenge which ends Tuesday July 2nd at 11:49 EST.  

Suzz

Products:
Stamperia Lilac Paper Pack
Tim Holtz TimeKeeper Sizzix Bigz Die 
Graphic 45 Kraft Travel Album with Notebooks 
Prima Art Basics Heavy White Gesso 
Prima Marketing Farmhouse Ephemera
Idea-Ology Tim Holtz Quote Chips
Ranger Distress Stickles Dry Glitter Clear Rock Candy
Rayon Seam Binding 
Kaisercraft Pearls
Ranger Archival Ink - Watering Can
Ranger Distress Oxide Ink - Vintage Photo
Tim Holtz Tonic Distressing Tool
Tim Holtz Tonic Re-tractable Craft Knife

Home, Sweet Home

Hello and welcome! We really enjoyed seeing all those gorgeous embellishments, trinkets and trims in our last challenge! It's Sara Emily here to host our latest challenge at Frilly and Funkie, and I'm calling it 'Home, Sweet Home'. Whether your house is grand or modest, neat or messy, there's no place like home. Houses get bought and sold, but home stays with you forever. For this challenge, I would like to see how you interpret what home means to you on your vintage or shabby chic project.

The winner will earn the chance of a Guest Designer spot here at Frilly and Funkie, 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. And there are Top 3 Badges for three further outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team, because choosing just one winner is so hard!

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 Frilly and Funkie 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.

This week the wonderful Funkie side of the Design Team is up to share their challenge creations - click on each image for a closer look and on their blog to be magically transported to their blogs:

Suzanne Czosek - Suzz's Stamping Spot 

Sara Emily - sarascloset

Jenny Marples - Pushing The Right Buttons

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WEEK ONE

This week the fabulous Frilly side of the Design Team is up to share their challenge creations - click on each image for a closer look and on their blog to be magically transported to their blogs:

Maggi Harding - Scrap, Travel & Bark

Kathy Clement - Kathy by Design

Cec Wintonyk - CW Creations

Now it's your turn to show us what home means to you! We can't wait to see what you will create for this challenge! Use the Linky tool below to link up your project before 11:59PM EDT on Tuesday, July 2. There will be even more inspiration from the Funkie side of the Design Team next week too, so be sure to visit us again next Wednesday.

Happy Crafting!

Sara Emily

Challenge Winners - Embellishments, Trinkets and Trims

Today we announce our winners from the 'Embellishments, Trinkets and Trims' challenge. Thank you to everyone who shared their gorgeous creations with us. We loved seeing them all.

With so many wonderful entries it was a challenge just to pick out one, but our final choice this time was #13 Boozybear. We loved the way the embellishments had been incorporated and layered with the images over the beautiful background to create a sense of mystery and wonder in this layout! Check it out in more detail HERE. Congratulations to Boozybear on being our favorite and winning the opportunity to be a Guest Designer here at Frilly and Funkie for a future challenge. You will be contacted with all the details.

And now our picks for the three winners of the Frilly and Funkie Top 3 Badges for this challenge. As already mentioned it was so difficult to choose between these entries and we recommend you hop on over to take a look at them all. In numerical order they are; #2 Annie (Curious & Crafty Treasures) #3 Nancy Hill and #15 Alison (Butterfly). 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 #5 Clareene Forbes! Again, please do make sure you check out her amazing project for this challenge. Please email Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com for the gift certificate details.

Thank you again from all of us here at Frilly and Funkie to everyone who took part in this challenge and congratulations to all our winners. The current challenge, 'Home, Sweet Home' runs through Tuesday, July 2nd and the Funkie side of the Design Team will be back here this Wednesday, June 26th with some more inspiration for you. We look forward to seeing your entries!

Have a great week everyone.

Saturday Showcase - Tim Holtz Idea-ology Transparent Wings

It is Cec here to present the Saturday Showcase this week.  I am sharing a couple of projects I made featuring the Tim Holtz Transparent Wings from his Idea-ology line of products, which can be found at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

I have made one a little frilly and another a little more funkie but believe me, both were so much fun to create.  First up is the frilly one - a tag I think I will call Wildflower Fairy.

I started with a jumbo manila tag and gave it a coat of White Gesso (Dina Wakley) on both sides.  Then I smooshed the tag through puddles of Antique Linen, Frayed Burlap and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide (Tim Holtz).

Once the tag was dry I gave each side a coat of Clear Gesso (Dina Wakley).  This was followed with Crackled Texture Paste (Wendy Vecchi) through the Crossed stencil (Tim Holtz) - I only added the paste on the side I decided was going to be the front.  Note:  The clear gesso acts as a barrier so the paste will stay white when it dries.  If you don't mind it sucking up some of the colour, the clear gesso can be omitted.

Next I die cut all sorts of wildflowers from the Wildflower Stems #1 and #2 sets (Tim Holtz).  The die cuts were coloured by inking them with a variety of Distress Inks using either a water brush (Tim Holtz) or smooshing them through puddles of colour.  The inks used were: Worn Lipstick, Shaded Lilac, Picked Raspberries, Festive Berries, Wilted Violet, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Peeled Paint.

Gathered Twigs Distress Ink was used to colour a little picket fence that came in one of the great goodie packages you get with an order from The Funkie Junkie Boutique.  The wildflowers and the fence were added to the tag.

Next I used some Watering Can Archival Ink (Wendy Vecchi) to stamp a couple of bees from the Entomology set (Tim Holtz) and cut them out using the co-ordinating die set - what a time saver.  The bees were coloured with some Wild Honey and Spiced Marmalade DI before they were added to the tag.  I also stamped a lady bug but did not use it in the end because it was too large and looked out of scale.

I coloured the back of some transparent wings with a mixture of Aqua and Purple Twilight Alcohol Ink (Tim Holtz) and then fastened them to the back of a sweet girl from the Paper Dolls (Tim Holtz).

Finally some burlap string and some fuzzy fibre from my stash were combined with a strip of seam binding that was dyed with Gathered Twigs DI to make a topper for the tag.

For my more funkie project I made a canvas I am calling Brave Wings.  I started with a piece of mat board and adhered some corrugated cardboard on top of it.  This gives some stability to the cardboard but still keeps the project light.

I ripped some of the top layer off the cardboard in random areas to expose the corrugation and then smeared Texture Paste thickly over sections to provide rough texture.

I tore a piece of paper from an old book and gave it a light dry brushed coat of White Gesso.

Next I laid the paper loosely on the cardboard and sprayed both with some Antique Linen, Iced Spruce and Gathered Twigs Distress Spray Stain (Tim Holtz) followed by White Linen Spray (Dylusions).

Before I glued it on the cardboard I added some stenciling to the book paper using the Checkmate Stencil (Wendy Vecchi) and Iced Spruce DI as well as the Speckles stencil (Tim Holtz) and Gathered Twigs DI.

The transparent wings were coloured on the back with a mixture of Mushroom, Cloudy Blue and Denim Alcohol Ink (Tim Holtz).  One large pair of wings was added to the back of a ballerina from the Paper Dolls set (Tim Holtz).  Strings of copper seed beads were added to the bodies of the remaining wings before they were added to the canvas.

Finally I created the sentiment on the computer, cut it into segments, inked each word with Gathered Twigs DI and adhered then to the canvas.

These transparent wings are so much fun and very handy to have.  They can be coloured as I did but they also look wonderful just as they are.  The package contains a great variety of sizes so they can be used in all sorts of ways.  You can purchase them at The Funkie Junkie Boutique - a great online store with super pricing and customer service.

Here is a list of supplies with links to The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Transparent Wings TH93785
Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 5PK - Wildflower Stems #1 by Tim Holtz
Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 5PK - Wildflower Stems #2 by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Framelits Die Set - Entomology by Tim Holtz 663068	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Entomology	Tim Holtz Ideaology Paper Dolls TH93555	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Crossed	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Texture Paste - Crackled WVPASTECRA	50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #10
Dina Wakley Media Mediums - White Gesso MDM41689	Dina Wakley Media Mediums - Clear Gesso - 4 fl oz MDM46424	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Antique Linen	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Vintage Photo	Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Worn Lipstick TIM21513
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Festive Berries TIM32861	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Picked Raspberry TIM34995	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Wilted Violet TIM43263	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Wild Honey TIM27201	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Spiced Marmalade TIM21506	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Peeled Paint TIM20233
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Gathered Twigs TIM32823	Rayon Seam Binding	Burlap String - 12 Colors	Tim Holtz Water Brush, Detailer Brush Tip TIP33080	Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink - Aqua	Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink - Purple Twilight
Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Mushroom	Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink - Cloudy Blue	Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Denim Blue TIM22015	Ranger Texture Paste Opaque Matte INK44444	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stencil - Checkmate WVSFA026	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Speckles THS021
Dyan Reaveley′s Dylusions Ink Spray - White Linen DYC37873	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Spray Stain- Antique Linen TSS42136	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Iced Spruce TSS42327	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Gathered Twigs TSS42310	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink Pad - Watering Can AID39006	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Matte TDA47933
Scor-Pal Scor-Tape 1/8" x 27 Yards	Scor-Pal Scor-Tape 1/4" x 27 Yards