Welcome to today's Guest Designer, Terry!

Today we are welcoming Terry of Terry's Work in Progress, as our Guest Designer. Terry was chosen by the DT as the winner of the 'Just CASE It!' challenge. Let's find out more about Terry and the beautiful project she has created for this fortnight's challenge.

Since becoming an active blogger in 2010 I have had the privilege to be on several Design Teams including being right here with Frilly and Funkie. I have learned that this hobby constantly evolves and opens ups so many doors for creative expression and opportunities. The artistic world is so generous in sharing knowledge and inspiring all of us to move forward and enjoy the journey! I am honored to have been asked to be a Guest Designer with my friends at Frilly and Funkie.

Living in the desert, the "Cool Water" challenge theme was just what I needed to bring down the temperature! I decided to use the Boardwalk Stamps from Artistic Outpost, which were stamped with Archival Watering Can and Black, colored with Distress and also a little water-coloring. The tag background was masked off in areas to create a land "cool water" effect and then the sky in lighter shades of blue with many flicked water drops! I added a few seashells and dyed cheesecloth to finish.

I'm sure you will agree that Terry's project is superb and will have given you lots more inspiration for the current challenge 'Cool Water...'. We are so pleased to have welcomed back to Frilly and Funkie for this Guest appearance. Make sure you hop on over to Terry's blog to see more of her fabulous work.

If you would like the opportunity to join us as a Guest Designer too all you need to do is join in with the current challenge HERE.

Friday Focus - Distress Glitters

Hi everyone. Jenny here with your Friday Focus here at Frilly and Funkie. This fortnight it's the turn of Distress Glitters to have an extra 15% discount applied at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

I decided to show you that they are not just for Christmas by creating a summery and very feminine card (you can click on the photos to see each of them in more detail).

It started with an Archival Reinker background using Cornflower Blue, a touch of Fern Green and some Surgical Spirits/Rubbing Alcohol on Specialty Stamping Paper. The great thing about these backgrounds is that no two are ever the same and they are quick to make.

Next, the stencilling. I wanted a contrasting pattern inside an oval so made my own stencil by using the largest of the Movers and Shapers oval dies through some of the acetate packaging. Using both parts I applied three flavours of Distress Ink and some Brushed Pewter Distress Paint through several Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi stencils.

Now for the Distress Glitter. I added Translucent Embossing Paste through the Vintage Floral stencil, then poured small amounts of glitter over the different areas with a little spoon. I mixed my own colour for the flowers using the Antique Linen and Victorian Velvet versions.

Once the paste had dried I ran a white gel pen around the internal stencilled lines of the flowers and larger leaves to add extra definition. The finishing touches included stamping the sentiment from the Heirloom Art stamp set, and flicking splatters of Brushed Pewter Distress Paint over the whole card.

Don't you just love the way the Translucent Paste grabs the Distress Glitter? And the great thing is it will work through any of your stencils. So if your stocks are running low or you only have those 'festive' shades why not add to your collection whilst the 15% Friday Focus discount applies. Find them now at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

Have a great, glittery weekend and take care of yourselves,
Jenny xxx

Ranger Inkssentials Speciality Stamping Paper 8.5 X 11	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Reinker - Cornflower Blue	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Reinker - Fern Green	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Shabby Shutters	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Tattered Rose
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Tumbled Glass	Tim Holtz Sized Ovals Sizzix Alterations Movers and Shapers Dies	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stencil - Add a Stencil	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stencil - Checkmate	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stencil - Dots & Stripes Borders
PRE-ORDER Tim Holtz Ranger Metallic Distress Paint - Brushed Pewter	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stencil - Vintage Floral	Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Shabby Shutters	Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Tumbled Glass	Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Antique Linen
Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Victorian Velvet	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - Translucent	Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stamps - Heirloom Art	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black

Welcome to today's Guest Designer, Katy!

Today we welcome back Katy of 'Postcards from the Attic', chosen as the Design Team's winner of the 'For All Our Fathers' challenge. Let's find out more about Katy and see her fantastic project...

I’ve been papercrafting for about nine years now and my love for it (and ability to shop for stash!) doesn’t diminish. I am totally nuts about stamping and my fave all time product is Distress Inks – I use them on almost everything. I live in the Midlands with my beloved mutt and hubbie. I love making 3D items (it’s rare I create a card) so I stayed in my comfort zone here with a canvas. I do what I do simply for love - crafting makes me happy!

First off I feel I should confess that this is my third attempt at this challenge – mojo was obviously having an off day. I think I was trying to go too orange initially – I am much happier with the accent summer shades in this make. I wanted my colours bold and strong – as they appear in summer sun – and so I had a play with my Inktense Blocks. I used them straight from the box like a palette to create these intense, vivid flowers.

I combined my love of stamping with my newest crafty venture – jewellery making – and created wire stems and tendrils for my flowers. I love the texture this gives my canvas. I decided to have my stamped panel overhang the canvas top and bottom for a more asymmetrical look and backed it with grey patterned paper so the blues and oranges could pop. The flowers and bottle are adhered with silicone glue to make them lovely and 3D.

Hope you like my make. More detail can be found on my blog: http://postcardsfromtheattic.blogspot.co.uk/

I'm sure you'll all agree that Katy's project is absolutely superb! If you would like to join us as a Guest Designer then all you need to do to be in with a chance is join in with the current challenge 'Summer Heat!'

Summer Heat!

Hello, it's Sue here and I'm back for the second week of the current challenge here at Frilly and Funkie - 'Summer Heat!'

July brings with it the heat of the Summer, so for this challenge we want to see those warm colours in your project. Think red, orange, sunshine yellow and as an added twist you need to include a summer bloom somewhere on your project. Have fun!

Remember, to enter you must create a new, vintage style project following the challenge theme, link it below and make sure you add a link in your post back to this challenge. You can combine our challenge with up to 10 challenges (including this one) to qualify. You could be chosen as our winner and be the next Guest Designer here at Frilly and Funkie. There is also the chance to win a $25 shopping spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique for one lucky entrant chosen at random. So what are you waiting for?

This week we are delighted to welcome Brenda Brown as our Special Guest Designer working alongside the Funkie Team. When she's not busy creating for several Design Teams (including her own, A Vintage Journey) Brenda can be found running a range of mixed media workshops around the UK which are always very popular. A trip to her blog Bumblebees and Butterflies is highly recommended so you can see much more from this very talented artist.

Check out the projects below from Brenda and the Funkie side of the team to get you going this week. Click on the links to their blogs to see even more of each project too;

Brenda Brown - Guest Designer - Bumblebees and Butterflies

Sue Carrington - Stamping Sue Style 

Jenny Marples - Pushing The Right Buttons

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

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WEEK ONE

Hello, it's Sue here and I'm your host for the new challenge which starts today - 'Summer Heat!'

July brings with it the heat of the Summer, so for this challenge we want to see those warm colours in your project. Think red, orange, sunshine yellow and as an added twist you need to include a summer bloom somewhere on your project. Have fun!

Remember, to enter you must create a new, vintage style project following the challenge theme, link it below and make sure you add a link in your post back to this challenge. You can combine our challenge with up to 10 challenges (including this one) to qualify. You could be chosen as our winner and be the next Guest Designer here at Frilly and Funkie. There is also the chance to win a $25 shopping spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique for one lucky entrant chosen at random. So what are you waiting for?

Check out the projects below from the Frilly side of the team to get you going. Click on the links to their blogs to see even more of each project too;

Cec Wintonyk - CW Card Creations

Rebecca Deeprose ~ Paper Primrose

Nancy Dynes ~ Tattered Treasures 

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Whether you are a Frilly or Funkie crafter we hope you will join us for this challenge because we would love to see what you can create. You may upload your project at any time in the next fortnight. 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 be sure to turn off your Word Verification so our Design Team can leave comments on your blogs.

Challenge Winners - Just CASE It!

Welcome to the Frilly and Funkie challenge blog and yet another new week. That means we can announce the winners of the 'Just CASE It!' challenge. We would like to thank you all of those who took the time to enter. There some amazing entries for this one and the Design Team were really split with this one. In the end the decision went with this gorgeous entry by #3 Terry.

The team loved the vintage feel to this and the way Terry had cleverly taken the original tag design and created a real celebration of summers past. Congratulations Terry on being our favourite for the 'Just CASE It!' challenge and winning the opportunity to be a Guest Designer here at Frilly and Funkie for a future challenge.

And Random.org has chosen a winner for our $25 gift certificate to The Funkie Junkie Boutique. Our congratulations go to #5 Dria of Photo Finnatic.

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 and to give us your email address for the Guest Designer details (Terry) and for the gift certificate details (Dria).

Our current challenge, 'Summer Heat!' runs through Tuesday, July 15th. We hope to see you entering this time around so that you too can be in with a chance to win. And remember, you can enter up to 10 challenges including ours, and a maximum of 3 entries per person to our challenge. Please remember to link back to our challenge in your entry and mention in your post that you are entering this Frilly and Funkie challenge.

Have a great week!

Saturday Step X Step - Weathered Wood

Hi everyone and thanks for joining me at Frilly and Funkie today. It's Jenny here as your 'hostess with the mostest' and a technique I like to call 'Weathered Wood'. Have you seen some of those super aged wood panels in shabby chic projects? Well I've got a way of replicating that look with inks, paints and a brayer to give you a background that can create a card like this...

Here goes (and remember, you can click on each of these photos for a closer look)... cover a rectangle of plain thick card with Antique Linen Distress Paint. Dry.

Add a little Frayed Burlap Distress Paint and a little water to your craft mat. Run your brayer through it then apply VERY LIGHTLY to the card in vertical sweeps. Dry and clean off your brayer.

Repeat the process this time using Weathered Wood Distress Paint.

Apply Weathered Wood Distress Ink over the whole of the card with a blending tool.

Add droplets of water over the top, allowing the water to react with the ink before drying again.

This is a clever bit. Add a little rubbing alcohol/surgical spirit to your craft mat together with the tiniest of dots of Potting Soil and Orange Blossom Archival Reinker. DON'T mix them.

Run your brayer through the ink mixture to pick up the dots and runs and apply these over the painted layers. They will create the effect of knots in the wood and are permanent when dry. You can do this to age any painted surface, with the Potting Soil Reinker being particularly useful for this task.

Score your card at 1.5 inch widths, fold towards you and blend Walnut Stain Distress Ink along the fold lines.

Re-score your lines so that they are indented to create the effect of planks. You can leave it at this stage or go one step further.

This next idea is based on the same principles as Tim Holtz' Eroded Metals technique. Working at speed and in vertical stripes, cover your background with your paint colour of choice (I used Tumbled Glass flavour).

Flick large droplets of water over the paint surface, allowing it to react just a little before using your heat gun to dry some of the paint - BUT NOT ALL OF IT. Using a clean tissue lay it over the semi-wet surface to remove the wet paint, dabbing away any further areas as required. The point is to make it look like the paint is peeling off the 'wooden surface'.

Finally blend Tea Dye Distress Ink over the surface to revive the wood colour.

You can see from the picture below how I chopped the rectangle into a square and used the remaining portion to create strips for layering over the top to create some structure to the end card.

And so to recap the finished card... and then review the embellishments...

A corrugated card butterfly covered with Wild Honey and Rusty Hinge Distress Paints, Black Soot Distress Ink, Clear Rock Candy Crackle Paint and a chopped up Industrious Arrow, plus one of those ever-present Simple Sayings!

Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi 'Blooming Art' flowers and leaf stems coloured with Wild Honey and Rusty Hinge Distress Stains, and Bundled Sage DS mixed with Pearl Perfect Pearls powder, all clear embossed.

The little pearls are from Melissa Frances. A window and box have been cut from black kraft core card, embellished with an Industrious border.

And that's all there is to it! I hope you give this technique a whirl to create your own faux wood panelling. You'll be able to use it as a background or for die cutting embellishments from in the same way you would with your patterned papers.

Love the idea of using your brayer to create great backgrounds? If you haven't seen it already, Wendy Vecchi has another fantastic tutorial using Archival Reinkers over on her blog HERE.

Of course those hot summer blooms are just perfect for the current 'Summer Heat!' challenge here at Frilly and Funkie right now. Don't forget, you have the chance to join us as a guest designer and there's a $25 shopping spree awaiting one lucky entrant, so it's well worth linking up those projects. Meanwhile you'll find a shopping list below for all the items used in this project just in case you are missing that vital ingredient.

Thank you for joining me today. Whatever you're up to have a fantastic weekend and take care of yourselves, Jenny xxx

Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Antique Linen	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Frayed Burlap	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Weathered Wood	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Weathered Wood	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Reinker - Potting Soil	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Reinker - Orange Blossom
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Stain	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Tumbled Glass	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Tea Dye	Corrugated Cardboard (6 sheets)	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Die - Mini Butterflies	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Wild Honey
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Rusty Hinge	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Black Soot	Ranger Distress Crackle Paint - Clear Rock Candy 4 oz size	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Industrious Stickers - Borders	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Simple Sayings	Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations Window and Window Box Bigz Die
$6.39 Core′dinations Kraft Core By Tim Holtz - 4.25x5.5" Paper Pad	Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stamps - Blooming Art	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Wild Honey	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Rusty Hinge	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Bundled Sage	Ranger Perfect Pearls Pigment Powder - Perfect Pearl
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink - Watering Can	Ranger Embossing Powder - Clear	Melissa Frances White Pearl Embellishments