Saturday Showcase - Prima Marketing Finnabair Elisian Clockworks

Happy Saturday to you!  Suzz here to share a post filled with time!  I am highlighting the Prima Marketing Finnabair Elisian Clockworks Mould.   Now I am going to share what I did with the  lovely Clockworks mould but these techniques will work with any of the many beautiful moulds found in The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

The first clock I created was for the current "March Madness" challenge:

Creating this beautiful clock had me trying all kinds of techniques to great a variety of clocks.

The clock in my vignette was created using the following steps:

1. Colored the inside of the mold with a Versamark marker to create a sticky surface.
2. Pouring embossing powder into the mold and shaking out the excess onto scrap paper to re-use.
3. Heating up and melting the embossing powder with the heat gun.
4. Repeat multiple times to create a thick enough clock that you can peel out of the mold.
5. After the clock was cool enough I brushed on a touch of gold paint to highlight the surfaces.

This was a time consuming process and the clocks were very fragile when finished. I liked the effect because they were very delicate and shabby. 

Here is the other clock created using this method:

I used the Seth Apter Baked Velvet Desert for the base on this clock with the highlights from the Prima Art Alchemy Acrylic Metallique.

After creating my delicate embossing powder clocks, I wanted to try another medium and decided to use a no bake clay.

Steps: 

1. Push clay into moulds.  I filled the molds and tried to finish with a flat surface on the back.
2. Let dry.  (Follow instructions on the clay)
3. Peel back the mold.  (On all of my clocks I peeled the mold away from the materials slowly to try
    to prevent any breakage.)
4. Largest clock 
        a.  Spray with Distress Oxide Spray. (Mermaid Lagoon).
        b.  Let dry and then using a paint brush apply touches of gold paint.
5. Small clocks
        a.   Paint with gold shimmer paint.
        b.   Paint with gold paint.
        c.   After paint dries.  Ink up surface with Versamark Ink.
        d.   Sprinkle black embossing powder over surface and heat emboss.

After I finished with the first layer of colors and details I decided to continue with effects to antique the clocks.

Steps:
1.  Spray a mix of distress oxide sprays over the painted gold clock.  Let dry.
2.  Water down brown paint and apply to clock.

For the large clock to tone down the bright colors I added a few more layers of color.

Steps: 
1. Spray with brown distress oxide spray.  Let dry.
2. Add Metallique Wax to the edges and raised surfaces.
3. Smear watered brown paint to edges.
4. After everything dried ink up the entire clock with versamark watermark ink.
5. Cover with clear embossing powder and heat up until glossy.

I then wanted to take another try on using the embossing powders in the molds but wanted a solid fill.  I decided to bake the embossing powders.

Steps:
1.  Pour the various embossing powders into the moulds.
2.  Fill them and push the powders to fill all the spaces and level out the excess embossing powder.
3.  Place onto a lined baking sheet. (I used my toaster oven tray)
4.  Put in the oven and cook.  (I started at a lower temperature 200 degrees and raised it up to 300)  It took about 10 minutes. I just kept checking until the embossing powder was liquid.)
5.  Let cool.
6.  Carefully peel away the mould and pop out the clocks.

Unfortunately when I pulled my two little clocks I broke off a few pieces.  I didn't want to have to go back to the oven, so I popped them back into the mould aligning the broken pieces to where they belonged.  I used my heat gun and melted them right back together.

After I finished this process I remembered my melt pot.  I could have melted my embossing powder in the melt pot and poured it into the mould. (Something to try next time!)

I tried a variety of embossing powders:  a teal mixed with gold,  a gold mixed with black,  and black embossing powders.

What happened was the colors tended to split and the back was one color and the front was mostly the color. I ended up with the dark teal as show above and the gold turned into a dark gold effect:

I decided to highlight both with a touch of gold wax to bring out the raised surfaces.

Here are the final small clocks:

The two on the left are clay based and the one on the right is the embossing powder clock with a wax patina.

And here are the larger clocks.  The one on the left is my teal clock with a layer of collage paper decoupaged over the surface.  The one on the right is the clay clock with many layers of sprays, paints, and wax highlights.

Now what to do with all my clocks?  A box of clocks of course!

I hope you enjoyed spending time viewing the clocks. (He He).  There is still time to play along in the March Madness Challenge and the design team has tons of inspiration in our new challenge starting on Wednesday!

Suzz

Products: 
Prima Marketing Finnabair Elisian Clockworks Mould
Seth Apter Baked Velvet Neutral Combo 
Seth Apter Patina Oxide 
Emerald Creek Charred Gold 
Prima  Marketing Art Alchemy - Acrylic Paint Sparks Unicorn's Hair
Prima Marketing Art Alchemy - Metallique Wax Vintage Gold
Prima Marketing Art Alchemy - Acrlic Paint Ancient Coin 
Stampers Anonymous - The Professor
Distress Collage Medium - Vintage
Tim Holtz Quote Chips 
Tim Holtz Collage Paper - Travel
Prima Marketing - Wild and Free Stamps
Ranger Distress Oxides Spray - Mermaid Lagoon, Walnut Stain
Ranger Distress Oxide Ink - Walnut Stain 
Idea-Ology Quotation Metallic Stickers
Wendy Vecchi Washi Tape
Versamark Watermark Ink 
Versamark Watermark Ink Pen
Ranger Clear Embossing Powder 
Keys 
Idea-Ology Story Sticks
Idea-Ology Swivel Clasps
Stampers Anonymous - Entomology 
Ranger Quick Cure Clay 
Prima Marketing Art Alchemy - Metallique Rustic Brown
Paper Dolls
Rabbit Charms 
Graphic 45 Bloom 8X8 Paper Pad
Idea-Ology Tim Holtz Vignette Box
Idea-Ology Watch Cameos

March Madness

Hi! Suzz here to share the new Frilly and Funkie challenge with you! Don't be afraid because the challenge is called "March Madness", the challenge isn't going to require you to use basketball inspired images.

Instead I want you to be inspired by Alice in Wonderland. I started from this quote of a conversation between the Mad Hatter and Alice: The Mad Hatter asks Alice: "Have I gone Mad?" and Alice replies "I am afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret.  All the best people are."

The challenge is to take any idea or concept from this wonderful tale to inspire your project. There are so many wonderful bits or pieces to be inspired by like the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, the looking glass, tea party or Alice herself. The possibilities are endless. Anything can be your inspiration but make sure you reference what inspired your art from the story!

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.

For more March Madness inspiration, the amazing Funkie side of the Design Team have created these lovely ideas:

Suzanne Czosek - Suzz's Stamping Spot

Sara Emily -- sarascloset

Jenny Marples - Pushing The Right Buttons

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WEEK ONE

To get your March Madness ideas percolating,  the talented Frilly side of the Design Team have  steamed up some lovely ideas:

Kathy Clement - Kathy by Design

Cec Wintonyk - CW Creations

Maggi Harding - Scrap, Travel & Bark!

Time to pull out your Alice in Wonderland inner spirit and craft up some fun. For even more inspiration make sure to join us here tomorrow as we welcome our latest Guest Designer and next Wednesday the Funkie side of the Design Team will be back with their March Madness makes.

Suzz

Artist Trading Coins

Hi! Suzz here.   Welcome to our latest challenge!  The challenge this time is to create an Artist Trading Coin. I was inspired by a new way of capturing a little bit of art to share with others. Your challenge is to create a trading coin which should be a circle shape 2 1/2 inches in diameter.

The winner will earn the chance of a guest 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. In addition, the Design Team will select three further outstanding entries and those creators will receive a Top Pick badge to display on their blogs!

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.

To give you even more ideas we have the Funkie Side of the team's amazing inspiration:

Sara Emily -- sarascloset

Suzanne Czosek - Suzz's Stamping Spot

Jenny Marples - Pushing The Right Buttons

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WEEK ONE

To get your artistic juices flowing we have the Frilly Side of the team's fabulous inspiration:

Maggi Harding - Scrap, Travel & Bark!

Cec Wintonyk - CW Creations

Kathy Clement - Kathy by Design

Come join us in all the fun and create some art to share with your own Artist Trading Coins! Don't forget to come back next week to see what the Funkie Side of the team has created! 

Suzz

Saturday Showcase - Prima Marketing Julie Nutting Dolls

Happy Saturday!  Suzz here with the latest showcase.   I am highlighting a few of the Prima Marketing Doll Stamps by Julie Nutting.  These sweet stamps always remind me of the old fashioned paper dolls and creating fun outfits with a variety of styles.

I decided to try out a few of the new dolls in stock including "Kyoko" and the "Travel Girl" set.

I tried out a few different ideas with the pretty Kyoko.  I stamped her clothes first on a few different pattern papers.  My favorite was the pretty flowers and bees from the lovely Farmhouse paper.  

This inspired my entire tag.  Here are the steps I used to create the tag:

1. Stamp Kyoko on white cardstock and the pattern paper. 
2. Heat emboss the stamped image on the pattern paper with black embossing powder.
3. Color the image on the white cardstock with your favorite coloring medium.  (I used watercolor pencils and a waterbrush.
4. Add shading to the skirt and top with your favorite coloring medium.
5. Cut out the skirt and dress.
6. Cut out the doll on the white cardstock.  (I cut out under her arms by cutting her arm at the skirt line which actually helps the image when you dress her up because it naturally falls behind the skirt)
7. Cut tag from mixed media paper.  Emboss doily using texture paste.  Let dry.
8. Mix a touch of green and brown paint on craft mat with water. 
9. Apply paint to one side of embossed tag.  Spritz with water.
10.  Apply brown paint on edge and spritz with water.
11. Let tag dry.
12. Stamp flowers multiple times and color to coordinate. 
13. Cut out flowers and layer.
14. Assemble tag.

I had so much fun with the first doll I tried out a few other variations with the travel girl doll.

For my travel girl I stamped her around 8 times onto white cardstock with archival ink.  

Because the travel girl was a smaller size I had to look for stamps and stencils that would look great on her outfit. 

First I stamped the ledger stamp over one of my stamped images:

 Then I colored in every other box on her dress:

My next idea was to use a polka dot image over the dress and I used a stencil with distress oxide ink.

 And here are the two fancy girls trying out their outfits:

I ended up using the pretty soft purple outfit and pulling together other stamps from the Travel Girl set to make a travel inspired card.

There is still time to play along in the "Let me Count the Ways Challenge". 

Suzz

Here are the links to the products at the Funkie Junkie Boutique:

• Prima Marketing Julie Nutting - Kyoko 
• Prima Marketing Julie Nutting - Travel Girl 
• Prima Marketing - Farmhouse 8x8 Pad 
• Stampers Anonmyous - On the Farm 
• Stampers Anonymous - Entomology 
• Idea-Ology - Fasteners
• Idea-Ology - Tim Holtz Clippings Stickers
• Idea-Ology - Story Sticks
• Ranger Distress Inks - Ground Espresso 
• Ranger Distress Oxide Ink - Shaded Lilac
• Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black 
• Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Dot 
• Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Doily 
• Ranger Distress Paint - Twisted Citron
• Ranger Distress Paint - Ground Espresso

Monday ShowCase - Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Inks & Tim Holtz Yupo Paper

Happy Monday to you all! The Saturday Showcase slipped to Monday and I am happy to share with you some inspiration using the Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Inks using the Tim Holtz Yupo Paper.

I spent quite a few hours playing with the alcohol inks and then cutting some of the backgrounds out to use on a few projects.

I started with the Translucent Yupo Paper and the reds, greens, yellows and blending solution.

For any of my backgrounds I like to first layer on a light alcohol ink. To do this I put three drops of the color first on the felt and then add a few drops of alcohol blending solution. I smear this up and drown across the entire surface. After I cover the surface, if I want to remove the streaks I just dab across the surface to let the blending solution bubble up the color.

Once that is done, I let the surface dry. Next for the background I was trying to create with the drops and circles I start by dripping directly from the bottles onto the background. I drip as single color in multiple places across the surface. While it is wet I will drip blending solution over the circles I have created. I then like to let them dry before I add the next set of circles. I add them by dripping more circles and more blending solution.

If I don't like where the colors are blending I will bring in large amounts of the blending solution and let it spread to lighten up the background. You can see I did that on this background after I added the green as it was getting muddy.

I let the green dry and came back with yellow dots. The more blending solution on the background that is not dry will help expand the circles. After it dried I added the red dots back into the surface.

My next attempt was still on the translucent background with greens, blues and yellows.

On this one I added much more blending solution and didn't let the colors dry in between adding more colors. I also used the heat gun to push the colors around the background.

You lose the hard edges and it becomes much more free form without the circles of color. After it dried I came back and added some more circles by dripping the colors directly onto the dry background.

I then pulled out the white Yupo cardstock and created a much softer and blurrier background by adding many drips of blending solution and using the heat gun to push the colors around.

You can see the blending solution and inks pooling off the edge of the paper.

When it dried you can see how it pooled colors around the edges and how the white cardstock helps keep a much richer color.

I then added some drips of blending solution.

I finished it with adding a few drops of blending solution to a clean felt pad and dabbing across the surface to get tiny bubbles across the surface.

For my last sheet I used White Yupo Cardstock and decided to use the felt applicator for all my colors.

I covered the background with the yellow alcohol ink first by adding a few drops of yellow ink mixed with a few drops of the blending solution.

I then started adding a hint of brown ink with a few drops of blending solution and dabbed it on the right side of the paper.

I repeated with a fresh piece of felt with a blue alcohol ink mixed with the blending solution. I didn't re-apply and ink and kept dabbing all the way over to the left.

I then added a bit more brown. I left drying time between each color and replaced my felt each time I put a new coat of color.

I also at the end just used a clean applicator with just blending solution. Most of all the important thing with the alcohol inks is to just try out new ideas. The medium is fun and forgiving!

I didn't finish off this piece, I just put it on a card front to finish later.

I did die cut a bunch of butterflies and leaves from the other backgrounds:

I quickly put together a tag and a card using the butterflies:

I purposely left the background of the cards white and simple to highlight the beauty of the alcohol inks.

 I also cut out a dragonfly from the leftover backgrounds.

The yupo paper allows the alcohol inks to shine and the alcohol inks come in a variety of colors to allow you to pick your color combinations. The Funkie Junkie Boutique has the papers and inks available to purchase. There is still time to play in the Inspired By Challenge!

Suzz

Ranger Inkssentials Alcohol Ink Applicator With 10 Blending Felts TIM20745	Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink - Limeade - TAL52593	Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Yupo Paper, White 5PK 8x10 86lb	Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Yupo Paper, White 10PK 5x7 144lb	Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Mini Applicator Replacement Felts
Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Mini Applicator Tool	Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Yupo Paper, Translucent 10PK TAC49722	Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Sunset Orange	Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Sunshine Yellow	Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Stream TIM22206
Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Espresso TIM22039	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Entomology	Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 4PK - Detailed Butterflies, Mini by Tim Holtz	Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 14PK - Fall Foliage by Tim Holtz 660955	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Story Sticks
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Quotations Metallic Stickers	Sizzix 3-D Texture Fades Embossing Folder - Botanical	Sizzix Alternations Tim Holtz Bigz Die with Texture Fade - Layered Dragonfly 659579	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink Pad - Peat Moss	Wendy Vecchi Make Art Blendable Dye Ink Pad - Prickly Pear
Natural Jute Twine	KAISERCRAFT Pearls - Self Adhesive - Pearl