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