Eat, drink and be merry!

Hello and welcome back to week #2 of our Eat, drink and be merry challenge.  Thanks so much to all of you who have shared your inspired creations with us.  If you haven't played along, we hope you will.  There is still one more week for you to link up your entry.  And to provide even more inspiration, our Funkie team has their terrific takes on this challenge theme.

Sue Carrington - Stamping Sue Style

Terry - Cards & Creativity

Trace - inkypinkycraft

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

**********Week #1 Post**********

Welcome everyone. Buttons here to host the next fortnightly challenge here at Frilly and Funkie. So glad you have joined us to see what we have in store for you this time. Before the details are revealed we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who entered our 'Anything Goes' challenge. There has been such a great response to it and the Design Team are going to have a hard time trying to decide on a winner. Pop back next Monday, September 23rd to find out who it is.

Now for the next challenge. As the Northern hemisphere plunges wholeheartedly into harvest time it seemed appropriate to focus on the things we eat and drink. We want you to put together a project that includes food or a beverage (or both if you like) in some way. You can use images of them, pick a project that could contain or cover them them (a sweet box, lunch bag, bottle cover... you get the idea) or use colours with food/drink inspired names (Mustard Seed/Walnut Stain/Seedless Preserves, for example). You might even want to use food or drink items to help create/colour your project (lemon juice, tea bags, coffee grinds, salt, and so on).

Create your new project, link it below and you could be chosen as our winner. For another random entry there is also the chance to win a $25 shopping spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique! And new rule going forward, you can now combine our challenge with up to 10 challenges in total (including this one) to qualify.

 As ever, one half of the Design Team kick off the challenge with their take on this theme.

Cec Wintonyk - CW Card Creations

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Rebecca Deeprose - Paper Primrose

Jenny Marples (Buttons) - Pushing The Right Buttons

Whether you are a Frilly or a Funkie crafter we hope you will join us for this challenge because we would love to see what you create. You may upload your project at any time. If you are using a public forum, please use keyword F&F. Don't forget to provide a link back to our challenge in your post and please, please, please be sure to turn off your Word Verification so our design team can leave comments on your blogs. 

Anything Goes Challenge Winners

Happy Monday everyone and welcome back to the Frilly and Funkie challenge blog. The day has arrived to announce the winners of the 'Anything Goes' challenge, and we would like to start by thanking all of those who took the time to enter. We had so many fantastic entries and the team had a really hard job picking just one winner, but after much consideration our votes went to #40  Nicole from Canadian Nickel Scrap'n for this fabulous Halloween shadow box.

We were really impressed with the amount of care and attention to detail Nicole had clearly taken with every part of this creation. Congratulations Nicole on being our Frilly and Funkie favourite for the 'Anything Goes' challenge.

And Random.org has chosen a winner for our $25 gift certificate to The Funkie Junkie Boutique. Congratulations go to #36 Sarah L from Kitchen Sink Creations.

A huge thanks from the Frilly and Funkie team to everyone who took part in this challenge and congratulations again to our winners. Please email Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com for the codes for the winner's badge (Nicole) and the gift certificate (Sarah L).

Our current challenge is 'Eat, drink and be merry!', running through Tuesday, October 1st and we hope to see you entering this time around. And a reminder, our challenge rules have changed so you can now enter up to 10 challenges including ours, and a maximum of 3 entries per person to our challenge.

Have a great week!

Step X Step - Message Pad

Hello and welcome to today's Step X Step ! It's Sue here and today the project I'm sharing with you is a little message pad to keep by the phone or to have on hand for all of those shopping lists (I've always got a shopping list on the go!) There's lots of photo's so grab a cuppa and get comfy !

I started with 2 chipboard coasters, a block note pad and 2 hinges cut from Grunge Paper.

 

Then I used a piece of brown tissue paper that was part of some packaging and stamped it with lots of Artistic Outpost stamps using black Archival ink.

I then tore up pieces of the tissue paper and glued it to the coasters along with some torn pieces from an old book using Multi-medium. I brushed some more Multi-medium over the top of the paper to protect it as I'm going to add lots of paint !

I then used the Wendy Vecchi stencil and embossing paste and stencilled the numbers onto the coaster.

Once the paste was dry I then gave it a wash of watered down acrylic paint. I dried this off with my heat heat gun and then started to add more acrylic paint using a baby wipe.

I continued to build up layers of paint using my favourite Autumnal colours.

I then started to stencil first of all using a numbers stencil and then I used the chicken wire stencil.

I used Sepia Archival ink and added some stamping using the gorgeous little flourish from the Artistic Outpost Serenity set and a script stamp.

I brushed some metallic wax around the edges and rubbed it over the raised areas. Then I added the embellishments, the text is from the Artistic Outpost Think and Wonder set. The Grunge Paper hinges were painted with acrylic paint and I cut a filigree metal piece in half and glued it to the top.

I used the same technique for the bottom coaster except I didn't add any embellishments as I needed a reasonably flat surface. I also didn't use a stencil with the embossing paste, I just dragged my spatula through it to create the ridges.

As the inside of the covers would be seen I decided to line them. I drew around the coasters and cut them out from white card. I used lots of Distress Inks and then stamped the card using a Wendy Vecchi background stamp with Olive Archival ink.

This is what it looks like now it's lined. I stained a piece of seam binding with Shabby Shutters Distress Stains and I was originally going to stick it in between the coaster and the lining, but I forgot ! So, plan B! I rolled the end of the ribbon and then pierced a hole and added a brad, then stuck it to the lining.

I also used some seam binding and the same technique with the brad to create a little band to hold the paper block in place.

One final photograph to show the detail. I really enjoyed making this project, I hope you've enjoyed it too!

Friday Focus - Crinoline & Venise Lace

Cec here and today it my turn to do the Friday Focus segment and Linda has asked me feature Crinoline and Venise Lace.  Now I often make flowers using the crinoline but I really wanted to think outside the box on this one so I came up with a wedding keepsake for a bride.  By the way, this project was already underway before Linda posted her dress form tag last month so I didn't use her idea but it sure shows that great minds think alike.

I started with a 12" x 12" piece of chipboard that was packaged around a paper order and gave it a couple of coats of gesso.

Next I laid down a stencil from Dyan Reaveley and used some embossing paste to emboss the dots on two opposite corners.

Once the embossing paste was dry, I pounced some Butter Pecan acrylic paint on with a dry baby wipe giving the canvas almost a stone look. The best thing about this technique is that it hides a multitude of sins - not that I am admitting there were any :)

Next I started to make a wedding dress.  I made myself a paper pattern first and then used it to cut a dress from crinoline.  Crinoline is like a woven interfacing used in sewing.  I finished all the edges by turning under a 1/4" hem using double sided tape.  You can see in the photo where I had to clip on an inside curve.  I cut a lining out of an old sheet and added that to the back and made a mannequin out of card stock to mount it on.

Then I started to embellish it.  First I added a tulle skirt and then a band of venise lace below the waist making what I think they call a fit and flare gown.  I took a venise heart and cut the centre out because I thought it would make a nice sweetheart neckline and bodice.  I will use the part I cut away under some ribbon sometime. Then I added pearls to the centre of each of the flowers on the bodice and the waist and dotted the tulle with pearls. 

Next I made some crinoline flowers cutting three sizes from the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and dying them with some Tattered Rose Distress Stain and Antique Linen Distress Ink that I puddled on my craft sheet and diluted with some water.  After they were dry, and scrunched up a bit, I layered them and added some pearls to the centre.

I also made some white crinoline flowers and added some tiny roses to the centre that had a bit of glitter added around the petals.

Then I started to put the canvas together.  First I used my Cameo to cut a big doily from some shimmery card stock and mounted that on the canvas.

Next I tore a piece of Tim Holtz Tissue Wrap and painted the back with some Matte Multi Medium.  Once it was mounted on top of the doily, I added more of the medium to seal it.

The wedding dress came next and then I added my crinoline flowers along with some paper flowers on either side.  I also added some pearl sprays and a big pearl stick pin.

 

Once I added some pearls to the body of this lovely venise lace butterfly, I added it to the canvas.

Next I created the sentiment on my computer, cut it out with a Spellbinders die and then mounted it on top some more gorgeous venise lace before adding it to the canvas.

 

Here is the finished project just waiting for the right frame.  I hope you will run right over to The Funkie Junkie Boutique and pick up some crinoline and some venise lace appliques and trims and create something gorgeous.

The following products from The Funkie Junie Boutique were used to create this project.

Saturday Step by Step - The Chemist's Sketchbook

Hi everyone and welcome to a Saturday Step by Step here at Frilly and Funkie. Buttons here to show you how I altered the sketchbook featured as my DT project for the 'Anything Goes' challenge (which runs through to next Tuesday HERE). Let's start with a reminder of how the sketchbook looked when it was finished...

Let's start from the beginning with one plain A4 sketchbook and the panel I made for the centre. Being rather OCD about centralising things I marked out where the panel would go and also masked off a strip down the side of the front cover.

I applied Wendy Vecchi black embossing paste through one of the new Tim Holtz stencils to random parts.

Having dried the paste (it doesn't take long) I filled in the blanks using the Wendy Vecchi brick wall stencil.

Now how's this for a challenge - I added the lighter coloured Distress Paints (Frayed Burlap and Bundled Sage) in patches directly onto the black cover. As you can see, the coverage was really good, showing just how opaque these paints are. They are also very wet, which for this was ideal as it allowed plenty of time to mist them gently with water and blend them well before they dried.

As the lighter colours started to dry I blended the darker colours (Peeled Paint and Walnut Stain) over the top, once again misting gently with water. You may notice that I used a piece of sponge to help blend the paint too, dabbing lightly to move the paint around (again, another bonus of it being wet).

I let the paint dry 'naturally' rather than employing a heat tool as I found this way it allowed the paint to continue to react with the water and blend more. It also seems to start to develop something of a sheen if I use a heat tool, whereas leaving it to dry ensured the finish remained matte. I then added a layer of watered down matte Glue n Seal with a paint brush to protect the surface. This wouldn't be necessary normally but I know how much abuse this sketchbook is likely to face and wanted to protect the cover as much as possible initially.

With the surface covered, I removed the masking tape and then glued on some filigree metal pieces with Glossy Accents (it's strong stuff!). If you add Stickles into some of the recesses it creates a jewel like effect as it dries flat.

Nearly there peeps! With the cover finished attention turned to the inside covers. I dry embossed paper using a diffuser to give a flat portion to stamp on.

I swiped across the raised areas with some permanent sand coloured ink and then stamped chemistry images onto the centres using Watering Can Archival Ink.

Finally I blended Frayed Burlap Distress Ink around the edges and misted the pages to 'set' the ink. Once dry they were layered onto the inside covers.

If you want to see more of the finished results you can find them HERE. In the meantime I hope this has given you an insight into my experiences with Distress Paints.

Thanks so much for joining me. Have a great weekend, hugs Jenny xxx

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Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Bundled Sage	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Peeled Paint	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Walnut Stain	Ranger Ink - Inkssentials - Glue N Seal - Matte - 4 Ounces	4 Piece Antiqued Bronze Filigree Pieces	Tim Holtz Sizzix Texture Fades - Collage & Notebook Set
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Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Brushed Corduroy	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Pumice Stone	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Peeled Paint	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Picket Fence White	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Meadow
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