Guest Designer - Morena Hockley

The Funkie Junkie Boutique is delighted to welcome Morena Hockley of Morena's Corner, the winner of our recent Chillin' in the Heat challenge.  Morena is joining us this week as our guest designer for our Stamped With Love challenge.  

Ciao amici! My name is Morena Hockley and I'm cackling with joy to be the guest designer joining you today. You can find me at Morena's Corner where I share lots of craft tutorials for a variety of projects. I especially love to work with thrifted items to turn them into something new and fun! I'm tickled that my recycled box was chosen as the winner of the last challenge. That creepy clown box showcases some of my favorite things: upcycling, rustic and shabby design and Halloween! This is my favorite time of the year, and when I was invited to share a new project with you all my mind immediately went to this spooky yet sweet project. 

This 3-D card was made by combining a cut file from Furrow and Feather with a variety of Tim Holtz products. Instead of using the background cut files that came with the project, I used TIm Holtz stamps, distress inks and distress embossing powders to create textured "wallpaper" and the alchemy sign on the wall. I added texture to the cat and the cauldron by using Tin Holtz embossing ink and distress embossing powders. The book cover was stamped with an old Tim Holtz Halloween set I have in my craft stash, and the entire card was grunged up with distress ink. I finished off the piece with some Poly-Fil glued on to make "smoke", a little bit of dried moss and some shrink plastic jars filled with things every witch must have in her kitchen!

A huge thank you to Morena for sharing a stamped project with some of her favorite Tim Holtz stamps!  What are your favorite Tim Holtz stamps?  We would be delighted for you to share your favorites with us.  Our Stamped With Love challenge has another week to run so there is still time to join in our challenge.

Challenge Winner - Chillin' in the Heat

Our latest round of challenge winners is for the sunny or frosty Chillin' in the Heat challenge. Lyla asked us to create a HOT design using warm colors (red, orange, yellow. etc) or COOL design using cool colors (blues and greens). The Design Team has selected Elle from Empire of the Cat as our overall challenge winner. The team was delighted with the nostalgic feel of the faux Polaroids that Elle created for her art journal with a lovely palette of cool colors. We are looking forward to having Elle join us as our featured guest designer for an upcoming challenge. Congratulations Elle! We will be in touch soon with the guest designer details. 

Our top three winners in order are Morena, Barb and Michelle. The random winner of the $25 shopping spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique is Meghan, entry #4.  Please email Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com for your winner's badge or other prize details.

Congratulations to all our winners and thank you to everyone who played along with this challenge.  We hope you will join in our current challenge 

Saturday Showcase - Sir Vagabond Aviator Background Papers

Good morning!

Laura here with today's Saturday Showcase.  Today I am featuring the Sir Vagabond Aviator background papers.

Those papers are gorgeous!

Step 1 - Trim papers to 1 - 12x12, 1 - 11.5 x 11.5, 2-12 x 6
Step 2 - Tear one of the 12x6 like the photos above
Step 3 - Prep background paper with clear gesso

Step 4 - Use your favorite stencil with texture paste and heat set
Step 5 - Color your stenciled image with powders or mists.  I used the Prima Finnabair Art Ingredients Mica Powder Set.

Step 6 - Adhere papers as shown using cardboard or 3D tape to the top sheet 

Step 7 - Paint your chipboard - I used paint that made by mixing the Prima Mica Powder and clear gesso

Step 8 - Layer your powders over the images then seal with gel medium

Step 9 -Adhere everything together and add any embellishments and your title that you wish.  I added some Prima Painted Floral Flowers, some art stones, gems, and flowers from my stash

Here are some close ups

Earlier this week I also created a layout for the Challenge using the gorgeous Stamperia paper. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope I have inspired you.

~Laura

Stamped with Love

We want to see your favorite Tim Holtz stamps! It could be an oldie but goody or an image from his new summer of Halloween releases. Look through your collection of Tim Holtz stamps - old and new - and choose one of your favorites to create whatever you imagine with it. Your entry could be a card, a vignette, a layout, or something even more amazing!

Teri Wilson - TerisMailbox

Lisa Hoel: Creative Juice

Lyla Larimore - A Chief's Wife's Heart's A' Fire

                                                       

                                         Laura Gilhuly - AngelScraps

Janna Ketchum: dunhamtreasuresofthesea_jannak

Suzz's Stamping Spot

The overall winner will be offered the chance to be a Guest Designer at a future date here at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog, and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the drawing for the chance to win a $25.00 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. There are also Top 3 Badges for three additional outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team.

The guidelines for entering are simple: create a new vintage or shabby chic project following the challenge theme, link it to your post (not just your blog) and also include a link 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 for winning. If you are entering through a public forum (such as Instagram) you'll need to include the words 'Funkie Junkie Boutique Challenge'. Also, please 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 drawing in the past.

Whatever you create, enjoy the making! We look forward to seeing your projects! This challenge is open through 11:55pm Eastern Time on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022.

An InLinkz Link-up

Challenge Winners - Scotch It Is!

Suzz's Scotch It Is! challenge asked us to create a project inspired by "Scotch" - the tape, plaid, liquor, whatever the word brings to mind - in honor of National Scotch Day. For many, it brought up thoughts of plaids, but some chose to highight their Scotch-Irish heritage. In the end, our Design Team choose the amazing Creepy Clown Box made out of a Glenlivet Box that Morena created as our overall winner. Her transformation of the box using decorative papers and a thrifted doll defies description - click on the link below to see her blog post about the project!

We look forward to seeing Morena's return as a Guest Designer at a future date here on The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog. You'll be contacted shortly with all of the details. And now our picks of three additional outstanding entries for the The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog Top 3 Badges. In numerical order they are #1 Meghan Kennihan, #3 Meghan Kennihan, and #5 Barb Turpin. You'll be contacted shortly with the Top 3 badges so that you can display them proudly on your blog.

And finally for the lucky randomly drawn winner for the $25 gift certificate to The Funkie Junkie Boutique; our congratulations go to Barb Turpin. Please email Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com for the gift certificate details.

Thank you again to everyone who took part in this challenge and congratulations to all our winners. The current challenge - 'Chillin' in the Heat' - can be found HERE and runs through Tuesday, August 23rd at 11:55 pm EDT, so there's still plenty of time to link your projects. Please be sure to read the rules carefully before you submit your entry.

Saturday Showcase - Hipster Halloween

Hello there Funkie Junkie Fans, Lisa Hoel here and I have a "Halloween in August" make for you today! I think now is not to early to start holiday crafting. Every year I have more ideas than time so starting earlier is a good strategy. This Idea-ology Vignette Shrine decor piece makes use of old and new Tim Holtz Halloween products. Let's take a look…

Mr. Hipster Skellie makes an appearance and we can clearly discern his main interest in the holiday, especially when we turn on…

… the Halloween Idea-ology Tiny Lights! I used an orange strand from years past (the 2022 lights are green and purple). You can also use regular Tiny Lights and put a drop of orange alcohol ink on each bulb to color them yourself. Mr. Hipster's message, "I'm here for the candy" was cut using the new Sizzix Bold Text Halloween Die Set.

The sides of the Vignette Shrine feature another new die set, Mischievous. I love those little cats and can't wait to add them to future projects.

More words from the Bold Text Halloween set also included!

The lights really make an impact when it's dark:

Sweet! and spooky!

Now for the how-to:

1) I drilled a hole in the back of the Vignette Shrine to thread the strand of Tiny Lights through. (I was originally going to use green lights but changed my mind to use orange.)

2) I used Distress Paint to create the backgrounds to cut the side strips from. I dripped Villainous Potion, Wilted Violet, and Twisted Citron onto my craft sheet, lightly spritzed with water and swiped my paper through it.

While it's wet, Distress Paint is highly reactive to water. I also dripped water on the paper and added more layers once the first layer was dry. It is a really fun technique! You can see Tim demo it in his Distress Paint Demo video.

The finished backgrounds!

3) Next I made the little light box. I cut the sentiment out of Distress White Heavystock and trimmed around it. The box was made with black foamcore to fit my sentiment piece. To give the front piece a "candy" feel, I applied Embossing Ink with a Ranger Emboss It Dabber and then heat embossed with Villainous Potion Distress Glaze. To diffuse the lights that were going to go behind it, I applied Frosted Film (a retired product) to a piece of clear plastic and cut it to fit inside the box behind the front piece. (Heavy vellum would work too.)

I also applied Crypt Grit Paste to the sides of box to cover up the black foam core.

4) I cut strips from my painted papers to fit the sides of the Shrine. I die cut the words and cats through the top purple and green layer. I backed them with strips of paper I had spritzed with last year's Seasonal Halloween Mica Stains - Jack-O-Lantern and Flickering Candle. (I can't wait to see what this year's colors look like!)

5) Next it was time to work on the background paper that was going inside of the Shrine! I decided to make a custom ink pad using an empty Oxide Distress It Yourself Ink Pad and Oxide reinkers in Villainous Potion and Crackling Campfire. Tim gives DIY pad ideas and instructions in this video demo.

I used my custom pad to ink the woodgrain background stamp from the CMS384 Lumberjack stamp set. I wanted to have a striped look so the custom pad made that really easy to achieve. I wasn't sure if I'd like black or grey paper better so I stamped on both to see. (Black won!)

6) I lined the Shrine with my stamped background. The box edges I covered with Trims Design Tape.

7) Mr. Hipster came from the Wicked Hipsters Stamp Set (currently on sale!) I stamped it on White Heavystock, watercolored it and then fussy cut it.

8) Most of the lights I twisted into a bundle that would lie behind the sentiment window box. I tacked the wires down with hot glue to keep them in place.

9) Final steps were creating all the candies using the Sweet Treats Die Set and attaching them to the back. I also added some black and grey pearl gems I had. Tim's new Halloween Idea-ology Droplets would be perfect for a similar look.

I hot glued the end of the light string into place where it would lie under the skull piece.

Thanks for stopping by! Lots of exciting Halloween products are coming out this month so get ready to get your creep on! Pay the store a visit and check it all out.

Products Used:

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set - Wicked Hipsters CMS439

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Stamp Set - Lumberjack CMS384

Sizzix Chapter 3 Tim Holtz Thinlits Dies - Mischievous 665996

Sizzix Chapter 3 Tim Holtz Thinlits Dies - Bold Text Halloween 665995

Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits Dies - Sweet Treats 664204

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Vignette Shrine TH94034

Halloween 2022 Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tiny Lights TH94157

Halloween 2022 Tim Holtz Idea-ology Confections TH94170

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Design Tape, Trims TH94218

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paints - Villainous Potion TDF78845, Wilted Violet, Twisted Citron TDF50216

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Halloween Grit Paste - Crypt TSHK81081

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Glaze - Villainous Potion TDE78876

Ranger Tim Holtz Oxide Distress It Yourself Pad TDA66415

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Reinkers - Villainous Potion TDR78838, Crackling Campfire TDR72324

Chillin' in the Heat Challenge

It's the last days of Summer before School begins. What's your favorite part: the heat of the sunshine and lying by the pool or on the beach... or keeping cool in the water, and loading up on cold lemonade in the shade? Let's see a make of your choice with either HOT design using warm colors (red, orange, yellow. etc) or COOL design using cool colors (blues and greens). Use anything at your will to dress up your design and compliment your idea of the perfect degree!

Lyla Larimore - A Chief's Wife's Heart's A' Fire

Suzanne Czosek - Suzz's Stamping Spot

Laura Gilhuly - Angel Scraps

Teri Wilson - TerisMailbox

Janna Ketchum - dunhamtreasuresofthesea_jannak

Lisa Hoel - Creative Juice

The overall winner will be offered the chance to be a Guest Designer at a future date here at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog, and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the drawing for the chance to win a $25.00 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. There are also Top 3 Badges for three additional outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team.

The guidelines for entering are simple: create a new vintage or shabby chic project following the challenge theme, link it to your post (not just your blog) and also include a link 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 for winning. If you are entering through a public forum (such as Instagram) you'll need to include the words 'Funkie Junkie Boutique Challenge'. Also, please 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 drawing in the past.

Whatever you create, enjoy the making! We look forward to seeing your projects! This challenge is open through 11:55pm Eastern Time on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022.

An InLinkz Link-up

Challenge Winners - Moving Parts

Lisa Hoel's Moving Parts challenge asked us to get creative to make all of the moving parts in our busy, complicated lives work together. Some of the entries had actual moving parts and others used the concept as a metaphor for their creations. Our Design Team ultimatey choose the masculine birthday card that Barb Turpin created as our overall winner. Barb's tribute to her son's love of motorcycles has a great color palette and texture, and her use of Idea-ology products is very imaginative.

We look forward to seeing Barb return as a Guest Designer at a future date here on The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog. You'll be contacted shortly with all of the details. And now our picks of three additional outstanding entries for the The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog Top 3 Badges. In numerical order they are #3 Zowie Dixon, #5 Susanbcards, and #6 Katy D. You'll be contacted shortly with the Top 3 badges so that you can display them proudly on your blog.

And finally for the lucky randomly drawn winner for the $25 gift certificate to The Funkie Junkie Boutique; our congratulations go to #2 Meghan K. Please email Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com for the gift certificate details.

Thank you again to everyone who took part in this challenge and congratulations to all our winners. The current challenge - 'Scotch It Is' - can be found HERE and runs through Tuesday, August 9th at 11:55 pm EDT, so there's still plenty of time to link your projects. Please be sure to read the rules carefully before you submit your entry.