Challenge Winners - It's Heating Up

It is time to announce the winners for our 'It's Heating Up' challenge.  Thanks to everyone who took the heat of summer, translated it into a creation and then shared it with us.  We loved what you all made.

The team chose this wonderful panel featuring The Professor submitted by #5 Lyla Larimore.  You can check out all the detail she put into this project by clicking HERE.  Congratulations to Lyla on being our favorite and winning the opportunity to be a Guest Designer for a future challenge here at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog. You will be contacted with all the details.

And now for the team's picks for the three winners of Top Pick badges - in numerical order we have #8 Jane (Jane's Journal), #10 Lynn (Experiments in Paper) and #12 Elly (Elly's Creaties).  Make sure you click on their name so you can be taken to their blog and check out all the details of their wonderful projects.

Please email Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com for codes for your Top 3 badges.  We know you will want to display them proudly on your blog.

And now to announce the lucky person who was randomly chosen to receive a $25 gift certificate to The Funkie Junkie Boutique.  Congratulations to #1 Carol (Carol Stamps).  Make sure you check out her project as well.  Please email Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com for the gift certificate details.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the challenge and congratulations to our winners.  The current challenge 'Marvelous Metallics' runs through Tuesday, August 13th at 11:55 pm EST and we we look forward to having you join us.

It's Time for the August Give-away at The Funkie Junkie Boutique!

Congratulations to our July craft box give-away Shermi L.

We have another great craft box give-away and you could be the August winner!  This month's give-away contains Finnabair Vintage Trinkets, Pumpkin Liquid Pearls, Prima Wood Trinkets, fall themed scrapbook paper and more!

Click below to enter.  The contest is open through the end of August, no purchase necessary.  We hope to see your name come up as our August winner!

  The Funkie Junkie August Giveaway!

Guest Designer - Alison Bomber

We have a Guest Designer joining us today for the 'Marvellous Metallics' challenge.  Please give a warm welcome to Alison Bomber (Butterfly) who was the Design Team's top pick for the Home, Sweet Home challenge.  You can find Alison and her fabulous work on her blog, Word and Pictures.

For much of my life, creativity was never really on the visual side - I was more the words, music, books, theatre type. For more than a decade I was an actor, singer and workshop leader, and then spent nearly another decade working at the Royal Shakespeare Company as a Text and Voice Coach. When I went freelance again in Spring 2012, it was supposed to give me more time for friends and family. I had no idea that within weeks I would be in thrall to a whole new creative passion - stamps/inks/paints/texture/stencils - you name it, I want to play with it! Even seven years later, there’s always so much to learn, discover and explore, and there's nothing I enjoy more than a steep learning curve. Now I have to balance the two worlds - hence the name of my blog, Words and Pictures. So much for friends and family...

For Jenny's Marvellous Metallics challenge, I've been playing with some of my favourite weathering effects - crackle for the background and scrumptious rustiness on my metal embellishments, as well as using some of my much-loved rusty wire to create the oval frame. Do come over to Words and Pictures for some more details on how it all came together, and thanks so much to Jenny, Cec and the team for the chance to play alongside them this month here at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog.

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To see all the details of Alison's tag and more of her lovely work, check out her blog and then come on back and share your marvellous metallic with us. The Marvellous Metallics challenge can be found HERE and runs through 11:55 pm EST on Tuesday, August 13th.

There will be a new Saturday Showcase on August 10th, so be sure to save the date and come back to see us so you don't miss the inspiration our designer will be sharing.

Marvellous Metallics

Welcome back to another Funkie Junkie Boutique challenge! Jenny here hosting our new challenge called 'Marvellous Metallics'. There are so many ways to add metallics to your projects, from embossing powders and pastes, metallic finish cards and foils, metallic inks and paints to metal embellishments. And you can leave them untreated for a touch of glamour or alter them for an aged or more grungy look. Show us how you like to use metals on your vintage or shabby chic projects.

The winner will earn a 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 draw for the chance to win a $25 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 below to your post (not just your blog) and also include a link back 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 of 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 be sure to 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 draws in the past.

To get you started the Design Team has created some beautiful metallic inspiration:

Sara Emily - sarascloset

Cec Wintonyk - CW Card Creations

Suzanne Czosek - Suzz's Stamping Spot 

Jenny Marples - Pushing The Right Buttons

Ginny Nemchak - Polly's Paper Studio

Once you have checked out these wonderful projects, come on back and share your Marvellous Metallics with us using the link below. We can't wait to see what you make!

Saturday Showcase - Tim Holtz Metallic Confections 3D Impresslits Leaf Cards

Hi everyone and welcome to another Saturday Showcase, the Design Team's chance to share tutorials and products available from The Funkie Junkie Boutique with you and kick start your creative weekend. This time the focus falls on Tim Holtz 3D Impresslits 'Leaf' Embossing Folder which embosses and cuts the most beautiful leaves. By teaming it with his Kraft Stock 'Metallic Confections' and adding a little painterly magic they make beautiful aged leaves that are perfect for adorning cards and more. Here's an example of the finish you can achieve (before and after);

(click on any of the images to get a closer look)

To start grab a sheet of each colour Kraft Stock in the Metallic Confections pack - they come in all of these delicious shades;

Cut a piece of Kraft Stock large enough to fit over the leaves in the 3D Impresslits Embossing Folder and place it shiny side down on the cutting side.

Run through your embossing machine following the layering instructions on the 3D Impresslits packaging. Release your leaves from the folder and marvel at the incredible intricacy of the embossed design and die cutting.

Now cover the leaves in a thin layer of Dina Wakley Media 'Black' Acrylic Paint using a small paint brush.

When the paint is partially dry rub with a soft cloth to remove the excess. The longer you leave the paint the less you will remove so try experimenting to get the look you are happy with.

Once the paint has been removed you may find you have slightly flattened your leaves. This is easily rectified by replacing them in the Embossing Folder and pressing down gently on the reverse side with your thumbs to re-emboss them.

You will now have beautiful aged leaves ready to use on your projects. Here's how the other colours look when you use the same process on them.

Now to add them to a project (or two). For this first card I added some of the leaves to a plain white background embossed with the 3D Embossing Folder 'Elegant'. It's a good idea to add dimensional foam tape to the underside of the leaves to support them and prevent flattening the design when posting. You'll see below that I also added some twisted wire tendrils, a few self adhesive gems, two Tim Holtz Ideaology Adornments Butterflies (altered with white paint in the same way as the leaves were done) and a sentiment from Tim's 'Life Quotes' stamp set.

Here are a couple of close ups;

The second card picks up on the current challenge theme 'It's Heating Up!' incorporating leaves with warmer colours over a background smooshed with Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint (Buff and Sand) Tim Holtz 'Architecture' stamp and a 'Tattered Butterfly' die cut. There is an Ideaology Clockhand in the centre of the butterfly and a Small Talk sentiment, and to finish the card I mounted it on more Metallic Kraft Stock (this time in Copper).

Here are a couple of close ups of this one;

Thanks for visiting to catch today's Saturday Showcase tutorial. Don't forget there's still time to enter the current Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog challenge 'It's Heating Up!'

Jenny xxx

Links to the products used from The Funkie Junkie Boutique;

Sizzix 3-D Impresslits Chapter 2 Embossing Folder - Leaf 663293

Tim Holtz Idea-ology 8 x 8 Metallic Confections Kraft Stock TH93784

Sizzix 3-D Texture Fades Embossing Folder - Elegant

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Adornments Butterflies

Tim Holtz Cling Stamps - Architecture CMS369

Tim Holtz Sizzix Bigz Die - Tattered Butterfly

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Clockhands

Tim Holtz Idea-ology 8 x 8 Metallic 2 Kraft Stock - Rose Gold & Copper TH93780

Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint - Black, White, Sand, Buff

Challenge Winners - Water, Water, Everywhere

Today we are excited to announce our winners from the 'Water, Water, Everywhere' challenge. Thank you to everyone who shared their gorgeous creations with us. We loved seeing them all.

The standard of entries was so high that it was difficult to pick just one winner but in the end we chose #16 Lisa Hoel (Creative Juice). This incredible Finding Atlantis steampunk compendium took our breath away, with the time and care taken to complete each and every detail shining through. Make sure to check it out HERE. Congratulations to Lisa on being our favorite and winning the opportunity to be a Guest Designer here at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog for a future challenge. You will be contacted with all the details.

And now our picks for the three winners of The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog Top 3 Badges for this challenge. As already mentioned it was so difficult to choose between these entries and we recommend you hop on over to take a look at them all. In numerical order they are; #8 Maria Vachkova #12 Elly (Elly's Creaties) and #15 Lynn (Experiments in Paper). Please email Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com for the codes for the Top 3 badges so that you can display them proudly on your blog.

And finally we have a randomly chosen lucky winner for the $25 gift certificate to The Funkie Junkie Boutique. Our congratulations this time go to #14 Lagene! Again, please do make sure you check out her amazing project for this challenge. Please email Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com for the gift certificate details.

Thank you again from all of us here at Frilly and Funkie to everyone who took part in this challenge and congratulations to all our winners. The current challenge, 'It's Heating Up!' runs through Tuesday, July 30th and we look forward to seeing your entries!

Have a great week everyone.

It's Heating Up!

Editor's Note: Before we kick off the latest challenge we have more fantastic news to share with you! Today we are so excited to unveil the newest member of The Funkie Junkie Boutique challenge Design Team - Ginny Nemchak of Polly's Paper Studio!!! We are sure you will all join us in giving her the warmest of welcomes as she shares her creative magic with us for our upcoming challenges. Now, talking of new challenges...

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Welcome back to another Funkie Junkie Boutique challenge! Suzz here hosting our new challenge called 'It's Heating Up!'  Here is how I described the current challenge:

July is when the weather here in the Midwest really starts to turn warm and muggy. This is the inspiration for our challenge to interpret the heat with using one or more of the following colors: Yellow, Red or Orange. Your challenge is to create a vintage or shabby chic project where the main color is yellow, orange or red. I can't wait to see how you turn up the heat in your art!

The winner will earn a 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 draw for the chance to win a $25 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 below to your post (not just your blog) and also include a link back 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 of 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 be sure to 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 draws in the past.

To get you started in feeling the heat the team has provided some beautiful inspiration:

Sara Emily - sarascloset

Cec Wintonyk - CW Creations

Suzanne Czosek - Suzz's Stamping Spot

Ginny Nemchak - Polly's Paper Studio

Jenny Marples - Pushing The Right Buttons

I hope this has your creative juices warming up and you are ready to join us in the challenge!

Suzz