Sunday Share

Good Sunday morning friends of Frilly & Funkie.  We are back with our bi-weekly Sunday Share winner and to kick off another two weeks of sharing your work made with items from The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

We have let Random.org do it's work and it has selected Entry #5 Butterfly as the winner of the 25% off shopping coupon to The Funkie Junkie Boutique.  Butterfly will be able to stock up on crafty supplies at a deep discount this time as everything in the shop is already 10% off for the moving sale (that's 10% off the normally 20% off MSRP of the usual prices!).

I wanted to share the exquisite tag that Butterfly shared with us on Sunday Share.

Isn't this a beauty?  I love the colors she achieved with her blending of distress inks and the way the cream burlap and flower really pop.  A lovely piece of work - CONGRATULATIONS Alison!  Please  email Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com to claim your 25% discount certificate.  And thank you to everyone else who shared their wonderful work with us!

Have you shopped at The Funkie Junkie Boutique? All you have to do to enter is link up any creation you have made using products from my boutique here at Sunday Share. The only requirements are:
1) you must use something you purchased from The Funkie Junkie Boutique (the new one or Zibbet or Etsy)
2) you haven't shared it already here at Sunday Share
3) you have to mention the product in your post as well as my boutique and provide a link to my boutique

That's it - easy peasy and a fun way for you to showcase your work over here at Frilly and Funkie! So what are you waiting for? Link your work up below. If you need some guidance in knowing how to share your work here, read this post and let us know if you need further assistance.

Sunday Share is currently running for two weeks, every other Sunday from 5:00 a.m. ET until midnight on Saturday night. We will do a random drawing of all the entires that week and the winner will receive a coupon to shop with a 25% discount at the shop. This is our little way of rewarding those who shop at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. What are you waiting for. I know lots of you have already purchased items from The Funkie Junkie Boutique. Link them up here - it's a great opportunity to share your work with us and you just might shop next time for 25% off.

Saturday StepXStep

chunky chipboard elements, painting & crackle finishing…

Earlier this week, for my Frilly & Funky posting for the chipboard and metal challenge, I showed this little scene…

From a single die, I created a chunky, dimensional bird house…

I began by die cutting 8 repeats, from light weight chip board. The number of repeats is not essential, but it is handy to have more die cuts than you are likely to use to achieve the thickness you desire…

Use your favorite adhesive to glue one die cut carefully on top of another. It’s important to have them stack up carefully. I used glossy accents for this job…

Repeat this with as many layers as you need, to make it as thick as you like. I chose to clamp them all together with some small clamps I often use for paper creations. You can let it cure under a heavy book, just as well…

When the adhesive is dried, it’s time to paint a base coat of acrylic paint, in whatever color you desire. For the birdhouse used in monday’s post, I painted it white. This time, I used blue for the base..

Once the paint is dry, I brushed a medium thick layer of Distress Crackle Paint, in picket fence. It doesn’t need to be a careful coating. It’s best not to go over any areas you have already painted. The thinner the layer, the finer the crackle pattern. A thick layer will result in a larger crackle pattern…

By using a contrasting paint beneath the Distress Crackle Paint, the pattern shows through very distinctly. It’s really fun to play with color combinations of paint and crackle paint. The chipboard piece can be left as it is, or……

you can add another layer of color with distress ink. I find a finger dauber works well…

The possibilities are endless and can be adjusted for any creation you have in mind. This little house may just get some antiquing around the edges.. I’ll use this technique in some different ways down the road.

Thanks for stopping by~ and I hope you have a terrific weekend!

*Hugs*

Rebecca

These products used to make this project can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.  Don't forget, everything is 10% off through November 23rd:

Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Snow Cap White

Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents

Ranger Distress Crackle Paint - Picket Fence White

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Tumbled Glass

Shabby Paper Crafting Embellishments - White Filigree Metals

Paper Crafting Embellishments - Filigree Metals

Friday Focus - Metallic Stains

Greetings on this wonderful Friday!  Today the focus product will be "Distress Metallic Stains" and if you have not picked up these shimmery goodies, you really will want to!  I absolutely love each color and sure hope that Tim will be adding more colors to the collection!  The Metallic Stains are perfect for holiday crafting and just about anything!  Here is what I worked on for this Friday Focus using Distress Metallic Stains!

First a #10 Tag was sprayed with Goosebumps, but you can use clear embossing ink and powder with any stamp you desire.  Once dried, I gave the tag a light misting of water and then ran Brushed Pewter and Tarnished Brass Metallic Stains directly over the tag and blended the colors using a damp paintbrush.  A great feature with the Metallic Stains is that they can be blended with water.  I let this dry and then did a second layer of color.  Once I was pleased, I used a music line stamp and inked it with Vintage Photo and stamped here and there on the tag.  It is very faint and that is what I wanted.

The deer was cut from a recycled cereal box and card stock, glued together.  The deer was then stamped using a snowflake inked up with Metallic Stains.  Very subtle and shimmer effect.  Colored the hoofs with a Distress Marker, Walnut Stain.  The antlers were cut from the movers and shapers branch and trimmed to size, inked with Tarnished Brass.  This was glued between the cereal box/card stock deer. 

The larger Silver snowflake was cut from grunge paper, covered with Rock Candy Crackle and once dried, covered with Brushed Pewter.  The little Brass snowflake, was cut from shrink plastic, colored with Brass and shrunk using the heat tool, clear embossed. 

The ribbon was completed inked with Pewter and once dried, blotted into a puddle of Brass. 

The ticket was stamped using Archival Sepia and the Merry Christmas was part of another ticket, that I colored using the Distress Markers, Peeled Paint and Barn Door and then stamped above the line.  The Music Sheet, 25, snowflakes were all stamped on newsprint using Archival Sepia and then torn by hand and shaded.  All stamps are Tim's!!

Here are a couple of other projects using the Distress Metallic Stains.

http://frillyandfunkie.blogspot.com/search/label/Metallic%20Stains

http://terry2dogs.blogspot.com/2012/10/rusty-shades-of-autumn.html

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you have a wonderful weekend and get inky with Distress Metallic Stains!   Great fun! 

Ranger Inkssentials Surfaces Tags - #10 Tags - Manila	Red Jute Twine	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tinsel Twine - Silver	Red Jute Mesh (Burlap) Ribbon
Tim Holtz Ranger Metallic Distress Stain - Brushed Pewter	Tim Holtz Ranger Metallic Distress Stain - Tarnished Brass	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Archival Ink - Sepia
Mini Snowflakes Sizzix Alterations Movers & Shaperss by Tim Holtz	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Reindeer Flight BIGz Die	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Base Tray	Ranger Distress Crackle Paint - Clear Rock Candy
Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Markers - Set of 37	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Odds & Ends	Ranger Inkssentials Shrink Plastic
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Grunge Paper