Have you seen our latest challenge? Cec wants us to make something inspired by what we would find or take in a Steamer Trunk. There is still more than a week to let your imagination run wild with this fun challenge. Hope you will play along!
Monday, August 26, 2013
By the Seaside Challenge Winners
Happy Monday, everyone. I hope your week is off to a fantastic start. We're back today to announce the winners of our recently closed By the Seaside challenge. What a fun group of entries for this challenge. Thanks to everyone who participated. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did. We've visited your blogs and the design team has put their heads together and come up with our Funkie Favorite for that challenge. And that is Maryann Gross with entry #8. Here is Maryann's entry which she made in the Finnabair style after attending Anna Dabrowska's classes. We really loved the wonderful textured background and that amazing grouping of shells on her mixed media piece. Sensational work, Maryann! Congratulations on being our Funkie Favorite for the By the Seaside challenge.
And we have one more winner...picked by Random.org, it's entry #12 - Phyllis Olsen who wins a $25 gift certificate to shop at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. Congratulations to you, Phyllis, and have fun shopping!
Both winners, please email Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com for the codes for your badge or gift certificate. And thanks again to everyone who played along!
Have you seen our latest challenge? Cec wants us to make something inspired by what we would find or take in a Steamer Trunk. There is still more than a week to let your imagination run wild with this fun challenge. Hope you will play along!
Have you seen our latest challenge? Cec wants us to make something inspired by what we would find or take in a Steamer Trunk. There is still more than a week to let your imagination run wild with this fun challenge. Hope you will play along!
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Step X Step - My Steamer Trunk
Cec here and for this Saturday Step X Step, I am going to show you how I made the card and little accessories for my Design Team project for the My Steamer Trunk challenge.
I decided to take my steamer trunk to Europe and pack it with some high fashion so I started by finding the wonderful vintage image, which gave me a colour palette to work with.
I made the little hat first and it is very tiny - only 2" across. I found a wee straw doll hat that I bought 15 years ago in my craft supplies - sure hope that doesn't mean I am a hoarder :) The first thing I did was to paint it white.
I cut two circles from some drapery sheers that were hiding in my fabric cabinet, layered them together and ran a gathering stitch around the edge to draw it into shape for the crown of the hat. I glued it on with a bead of Matte Multi Medium. Then I cut a wide strip of the drapery sheer on the bias, folded it in half lengthwise and glued it on to cover the brim. It is important to cut it on the bias so you can bend it over the brim and around the curve at the same time.
Next I glued some fancy braid around the crown to hide the seam and then started to add some embellishments. The tiny roses were white so I took a blue alcohol marker and dyed a couple blue. You will see in a later photo that I added more flowers and also added some blue pearls to the hat.
Originally I planned to have the hat sitting on the card but even as tiny as it is, it looked out of place so I changed the card and kept the hat as a little accessory.
So now that it was separate, I needed a hat box. I must admit that I cheated and found something online that I could use as a pattern although I did alter it slightly. If I make it again, I will take the time to draw my own pattern because this one was ever so slightly off square - shows you how picky I can be:)
The box bottom and top were cut from some card stock from a DCWV pack called The Far East and glued together with double sided tape. I added some lace around the outside of the lid and a wonderful filigree medallion to the top to which I added a sparkly deco metal sticker from Making Memories.
I worked on the card next and got so carried away I forgot to take photos at every step but I can tell you how I did it. First I grabbed some Bazzill card stock to make the card blank with and then tackled the background. I coated a piece of card stock with Tattered Rose Distress Stain and once it was dry I added some swipes of Weathered Wood Distress Ink. Then I stamped the cities, which were in a stamp set from Stampabilities using Black Archival Ink and used my scissors to distress it.
I made the flourishes with a Spellbinders die from some copper card stock from DCWV. Next came the lovely venise lace with a row of blue pearls from Recollections added. The focal image came next and once it was printed, I tore around it and then inked it with Weathered Wood Distress Ink. The flower was made from the same paper as the hat box using the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and I added a clear gem to the centre.
The gloves came next. I created a pattern and then traced it onto some white on white card stock that was in my scraps. Then I inked it with the Weathered Wood, added a little lace and some more pearls. I think next time I would make the lace go the other direction.
I found this image of the shoes in the New York Public Library's digital collection so I just printed two of them, cut them out and added some teeny pearls where the buttons would have been. Finally I added another filigree medallion topped with a deco metallic sticker to the upper corner.
The following products came from The Funkie Junkie Boutique:
I decided to take my steamer trunk to Europe and pack it with some high fashion so I started by finding the wonderful vintage image, which gave me a colour palette to work with.
I made the little hat first and it is very tiny - only 2" across. I found a wee straw doll hat that I bought 15 years ago in my craft supplies - sure hope that doesn't mean I am a hoarder :) The first thing I did was to paint it white.
I cut two circles from some drapery sheers that were hiding in my fabric cabinet, layered them together and ran a gathering stitch around the edge to draw it into shape for the crown of the hat. I glued it on with a bead of Matte Multi Medium. Then I cut a wide strip of the drapery sheer on the bias, folded it in half lengthwise and glued it on to cover the brim. It is important to cut it on the bias so you can bend it over the brim and around the curve at the same time.
Next I glued some fancy braid around the crown to hide the seam and then started to add some embellishments. The tiny roses were white so I took a blue alcohol marker and dyed a couple blue. You will see in a later photo that I added more flowers and also added some blue pearls to the hat.
Originally I planned to have the hat sitting on the card but even as tiny as it is, it looked out of place so I changed the card and kept the hat as a little accessory.
So now that it was separate, I needed a hat box. I must admit that I cheated and found something online that I could use as a pattern although I did alter it slightly. If I make it again, I will take the time to draw my own pattern because this one was ever so slightly off square - shows you how picky I can be:)
The box bottom and top were cut from some card stock from a DCWV pack called The Far East and glued together with double sided tape. I added some lace around the outside of the lid and a wonderful filigree medallion to the top to which I added a sparkly deco metal sticker from Making Memories.
I worked on the card next and got so carried away I forgot to take photos at every step but I can tell you how I did it. First I grabbed some Bazzill card stock to make the card blank with and then tackled the background. I coated a piece of card stock with Tattered Rose Distress Stain and once it was dry I added some swipes of Weathered Wood Distress Ink. Then I stamped the cities, which were in a stamp set from Stampabilities using Black Archival Ink and used my scissors to distress it.
I made the flourishes with a Spellbinders die from some copper card stock from DCWV. Next came the lovely venise lace with a row of blue pearls from Recollections added. The focal image came next and once it was printed, I tore around it and then inked it with Weathered Wood Distress Ink. The flower was made from the same paper as the hat box using the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and I added a clear gem to the centre.
The gloves came next. I created a pattern and then traced it onto some white on white card stock that was in my scraps. Then I inked it with the Weathered Wood, added a little lace and some more pearls. I think next time I would make the lace go the other direction.
I found this image of the shoes in the New York Public Library's digital collection so I just printed two of them, cut them out and added some teeny pearls where the buttons would have been. Finally I added another filigree medallion topped with a deco metallic sticker to the upper corner.
The following products came from The Funkie Junkie Boutique:
Friday, August 23, 2013
Friday Focus - Stencils
Hi everyone. Buttons here to share this week's Friday Focus products - stencils (this Friday Focus discount does not apply to the new Tim Holtz Layering Stencils that are currently in a pre-order status). Oh yes, Linda has given these items an extra 15% discount on top of their already low prices for one week only. And STOP PRESS! There are new stencils arriving at the Boutique all the time, including the new Dyan Reaveley ones!! You can find them by clicking on The Funkie Junkie Boutique. My job? To give you some inspiration for using these items (and of course stocking up on your supplies, including those new stencils).
Normally I avoid making any form of Christmas project for as long as possible, but this year the inspiration from the Create n Connect (CHA) show so was overwhelming it had me itching to get started. I noticed that many of the pieces on show featured a red/white colour scheme and have echoed this here, with 3"x 5" panels (known as ICAD's - see Astrid's explanation HERE). These are an ideal size to use on their own or to add to cards, tags and boxes.
The first panel features a Dyan Reaveley stencil used with Picket Fence Distress Paint as a resist to Fired Brick and Aged Mahogany Distress Inks. Dry embossing the central section with a folder and diffuser focuses the eye towards the kraft tag.
This time the Wendy Vecchi stencil was used with the same Distress Paint, but I then added her white embossing paste to every alternate stripe to add extra texture. This draws some of the base Distress Ink colour through to give a more vintage feel.
A combination of Distress Paint spots and that same Distress Paint/embossing paste layering for the stripes using another Wendy Vecchi stencil created the base for this window scene.
Having used the Distress Paint resist technique again I used a snowman stencil from my stash (a freebie from a magazine some time ago) and applied embossing paste on top. The paste was then painted with Picket Fence and Black Soot Distress Paints. Remember, you can cut your own stencils using your dies and reasonably thick acetate if you have a shape like this in mind.
For the final panel I coloured the embossing paste with another Wendy Vecchi stencil, a mix of Fired Brick Distress Paint and a couple of drops of Red Pepper Alcohol Ink. Once dry I used the wrinkle free technique with Picket Fence Distress Stain over the top.
Obviously there are lots more details to share on each of these panels, and rather than keep you reading for another half an hour I will share these on my blog HERE during the coming week. However you should now feel inspired to reach for your stencils and embossing paste. Don't forget, the The Funkie Junkie Boutique stocks a great range of stencils in stock and more on order, and with that extra 15% discount they are well worth investing in.
For now take care of yourselves, Jenny x
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