I'll Take Your Word For It

April 11th post update:  We are back today with Part II of our "I'll Take Your Word For It" challenge here at Frilly and Funkie. Since it is Week 2, it's time for the Funkie design team to post their take on the challenge.  We have a terrific line up and I hope you will take time to stop by the designer's personal blogs and leave them some love.  

Whatever your vintage style - frilly, funkie or somewhere in between, feel free to link up your project any time during the two weeks the challenge runs.  This challenge theme runs through Tuesday, April 17th.  We will have two winners - one random pick will receive a $15 gift certificate to the Funkie Junkie Boutique.  And one favorite pick of the design team will receive a winner's badge to display on their blog. 

Anita Houston - The Artful Maven Haven

 

 Terry - Terry's Work In Progress

Marjie Kemper - She Who Stamps and Scraps

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

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April 4th:  Greetings vintage lovers.  Thanks for dropping by.  We have a new two-week challenge for you today, but before we get started, the Frillies and Funkies want to extend a heartfelt thank you for the warm reception we have received from the papercraft/mixed media community.  We had a sensational first week with lots of interest, encouragement and good wishes.  Many thanks to everyone who took the time to stop by, to leave us greetings and to stop by our blogs and leave us some love!  Special thanks to those of you who played in our first challenge.  Be sure to check back next Monday to see who the winners are.

Today marks the start of our first two-week split challenge.  Our normal format will be a challenge that runs two weeks.  The first week, our Frilly design team members will present you with their take on our challenge theme.  The second week, our Funkie design team members will show you how they were inspired by the challenge theme.  You are sure to see all kinds of wonderful vintage samples that we hope will inspire you to play along.

This bi-weekly challenge theme is I'll Take Your Word For It.  Words can be kind, comforting, encouraging, supporting. They can lift people up when they are down, they can give positive reinforcement or a giggle when we need it most.  I especially love motivational quotes.  For this challenge, let your sentiment take center stage and be the focal point of your project.

Frilly or Funkie, you can play along any time in the next two weeks.  We will have two winners - one random pick will receive a $15 gift certificate to the Funkie Junkie Boutique.  And one favorite pick of the design team will receive a winner's badge to display on their blog.  We can't wait to see your take on the challenge.

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Sue Carrington - Stamping Sue Style

Teresa Kline Paperie Blooms
Watermarked with Lil' Inker, all stamping is from LID.  

Tammy Roberts - Paperie Sweetness

It's Winners' Day

We are so thrilled with the response to our challenge.  For our very first challenge we had 45 players.  That's right, 45 examples of amazing vintage inspired goodness!  And now we have two winners for our first challenge!  Random.org has selected entry#22 CANDY COLWELL as our first winner of a $15 gift certificate from The Funkie Junkie Boutique!  Congratulations Candy!!!  Please email Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com for your gift certificate shopping code.

And that's not all.  The design team had the tough tough job of picking a favorite to receive the Funkie Favorite badge for their blog.  There were so many amazing entries but we finally narrowed it down and decided on #13 HEIDI.  Heidi, your beautiful dress form with its gorgeous texture and beautiful crackle and stains absolutely delighted us.  We would love to have you display our winner's badge on your blog's sidebar.  Please email me at thefunkiejunkie.blogspot so we can give you the code for sidebar  badge. 

Congrautlations to both winners!  And a huge thank you to everyone who played in our first challenge, and also to those who visited us and left encouraging comments about our new blog!  We are so grateful for the support we have received from the vintage paper crafting community!  

Sunday Share

Welcome back to our second Sunday Share! Thank you so much to all those who linked up their creations made with items from The Funkie Junkie Boutique. It's so much fun seeing what you all are doing with items purchased from the boutique.

What is Sunday Share all about? Since this blog is sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique, we want to have a place where our customers can share what they have made with items from the boutique. It's a linky party and you can share any creation here that has not been shared on this blog. It does not need to be a new project but you cannot share the same thing here more than once. 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.

Each Sunday Share will run 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.

Congratulations to last week's participant Marcy Kaminski. Marcy is a long-standing supporter and customer of The Funkie Junkie Boutique and she shared two wonderful creations with us last week. We know she will be happy to shop next time at a 25% discount.

Marcy, your entry was selected as the Sunday Share random winner.  Please contact Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com to get your discount code.

Here is one of her creations featuring the lovely Venise lace purchased from The Funkie Junkie Boutique. It looks like you dyed it, Marcy - wonderful work!

And look at this second beauty Marcy shared with us. She used black crocheted lace and the wonderful paper lace doily from our shop on this delightful card.

Have you made a purchase at the Funkie Junkie Boutique? If so, what are you waiting for? Join the fun here at Sunday Share and link up your artwork featuring products from The Funkie Junkie Boutique. Can't wait to see what will be shared here this week!

Saturday StepXStep

Welcome to Saturday StepXStep.  Linda Coughlin here to share the steps I used to make this Easter Egg wall hanging/refrigerator magnet for my DT piece at Our Creative Corner this week.  Our challenge theme there is 'In Your Easter Bonnet' and we were to use elements that would be on our Easter bonnet.  Well, mine would definitely have FLOWERS.  Hence I made a little flower patch of my rendition of that floral sign of spring - the crocus.

I always have requests for tutorials when I make a new kind of crinoline flower so today's StepXStep is going to focus mainly on the crinoline flowers.  Crinoline is a stiff cotton fabric used to make fluffy petticoats and hat brims, among other things.  I have been using it for over a year to make all sorts of handmade flowers for my crafts.

I cut 10 crinoline flower shapes using a Spellbinders five petal die.  Any similar die will work.  Using my Dusty Concord DI pad, I smooshed it down two times on my craft sheet and then misted it with a mini mister.  I mixed it around to make a purple die mixture and laid my flowers in it.  I didn't have quite enough so I smooshed and sprayed another puddle.  Once I had all the flowers saturated with the dye mix, I dried them flat on the craft sheet with my heat gun.  Depending on the type of flower I am trying to recreate, sometimes I scrunch them up before drying.  Once dry I folded each flower into quarters.  I then unfolded the base and curled the inner layer.  

Using the smallest flower die I had (a small flower punch would work), I cut out the centers from white card stock and stained them with Mustard Seed Distress stain.  While it was still damp, I scrunched it up, added a blob of Claudine Hellmuth Multi Medium Matte and seated it into the center of the inner flower layer.  Pinching the base into a cone, I added more multi medium to the base and seated that layer into the outer layer of crinoline, pinching the base into a cone.  The multi medium will squish through the layers and form a solid base when dry.

I like to make LARGE refrigerator magnets.  My base here is 8" high.  I used an old Creative Memories cutting pattern to cut the oval.  I wanted to use my Wendy Vecchi gingham stamp, but because my surface was so large, I had to stamp it four times.  I pieced it together in a sort of patchwork pattern, glued it and then ran a zigzag stitch over the joins.  I cut a second oval out of chipboard and layered the two pieces.  The edges were sanded with my Tim Holtz sanding grip to smooth them out and then inked with Antique Linen.  I cut two pieces of chipboard with the On the Edge Doily Die and painted them with Picket Fence Crackle Paint.  When dry, I went over it with Scattered Straw distress stain and also inked the edges with Vintage Photo distress ink.  I cut the fence with the On the Fence die out of plain white card stock, inked the edges lightly with VP DI and embossed with a cool Ranger embossing powder I just discovered called Enamelware.  It's basically clear EP but has small white dots in it like, well like enamel ware.  Then I sponged over the embossing with VP DI again.  

I finished it off by dying some rayon seam binding with Bundled Sage distress stain, scrunching it up and drying it.  To make my three loop floppy bow, I wrap the seam binding around my fingers three times, slide it off, pinch it in the middle and tie a short piece of seam binding around it.  I added a bit of purple burlap twine, a sentiment tag and a pretty button.  Last week I shared how I love to alter the filigree metals with embossing powder.  Here I used Antique Linen distress embossing powder on the butterfly and the filigree piece.  I really love the way it looks on this piece.  I will add a sheet of magnet on the back and stick it to my refrigerator as an Easter decoration.  

I'm sorry some of the photos are a bit blurry.  I must have forgotten to set the camera to macro on a couple of shots.  You can double click the photos and they will open up large so you can see the details, but if you have any questions, please leave them in the comments and I will update the post with the answers.  Many of the items I used, including a limited supply of crinoline and that pretty galloon beading venise lace, are available in the Funkie Junkie Boutique.  Don't forget the distress stains are 15% off this week because they were the Friday Focus.  

Thanks for starting your Saturday out with Saturday StepXStep here at Frilly and Funkie!  

Rayon Seam Binding	Crinoline	On the Edge Distressed Doily	Scattered Straw Distress Stain	Picket Fence Distress Crackle Paint
Ranger Bundled Sage Distress Stain	Multi Medium Matte	Idea-ology Wire Pins	Vintage Photo Distress Ink	Ivory Rayon Embroidered Galloon Beading
Tim Holtz Sanding Grip	Burlap String 10 Colors	Filigree Metal	Antiqued Bronze Charms	Paper Crafting Embellishments - Filigree Metals

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Friday Focus - Distress Stains

Welcome to our second Friday Focus! Marjie Kemper here, hosting this week's product focus on Distress Stains by Ranger. Each week the product featured on our Friday Focus will be on sale 15% off at The Funkie Junkie's Boutique. The price is already a low $4 for a product with an MSRP of $4.99. At 15% off, these stains are only $3.40 this week! Linda received a huge shipment this week and has over a dozen colors already on the shelves, so head on over!

I use Distress Stains nearly every week. They're so versatile that I had a tough time deciding how to showcase them. The most convenient thing about Distress Stains is how quickly they can cover a surface. You can cover a tag, art journal page, canvas, etc. in no time flat.

You can use them on their own, in combination with other stains, inks, paints, gesso, or water. I made this tag by blending three colors (pine needles, mustard seed, and tea dye) with water:

After drying with my heat tool, I stamped over it with Jet Black Archival Ink. I also dyed the flowers and ribbon with a combo of pine needles and mustard seed. Here it is in process:

There are so many options with Distress Stains it would impossible to show them all in one post. I decided to stick with a single color (Mustard Seed) and show it to you on different surfaces: (1) Glossy Paper, (2) Watercolor Paper, (3) Manila Card Stock, (4) Sticky Back Canvas, (5) Kraft Resist Paper primed with Picket Fence Distress Stain, and (6) Kraft Resist Paper (bare). Here they are, each with a single coat of Mustard Seed:

Isn't it amazing how different the color looks based on which ATC surface was used? Here they are finished off:

To the bases I added:

#1 ~ Jet Black Archival Ink
#2 ~ Manganese Blue Archival Ink
#3 ~ Sepia Archival Ink and Vintage Photo Distress Ink
#4 ~ Pine Needles Distress Stain on flourish; Scattered Straw, Spun Sugar, and Fired Brick Distress Stains as well as Vintage Photo Distress Ink on Flowers
#5 ~ White Picket Fence on grid stamp; Black Archival Ink on face and word
#6 ~ Vintage Photo Distress Stain on edges and to dye corrugated cardboard strip; Antique Linen & VP Distress Inks on person; VP Distress Ink on letters and background hearts

Thanks for visiting for our Friday Focus. Remember, those stains are on sale at The Funkie Junkie's Boutique until next Thursday. Hope you're joining in with our weekly challenge!

Products used:

Distress Stain - Mustard Seed	Distress Stain - Pine Needles	Distress Stain - Fired Brick	Distress Stain - Spun Sugar	Distress Stain - Tea Dye
Distress Stain - Vintage Photo	Distress Stain - Picket Fence	Distress Ink - Vintage Photo	http://www.zibbet.com/TheFunkieJunkie/artwork?artworkId=769697	Ranger Inkssentials Manila Card Stock
anger Sticky Back Canvas (Claudine Hellmuth Studio)	Corrugated Cardboard	Sizzix Movers & Shapers - ATC & Corners Die	Sizzix - Elegant Flourishes Die	Sizzix Decorative Strip Tattered Flowers Die

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Last Day for Friday Focus Filigree Sale - 15% Off

Don't forget, from Friday to Thursday of the following week, our Friday Focus product(s) are 15% off at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.  Today is the last day that the filigree metals are on sale.  Here is just a sample of what you can find at 15% off in the Filigree Metals section of the boutique.

Check out the Tim Holtz/Ranger section too for low, low prices and lots of products newly stocked!  Don't be fooled by companies that offer free shipping - you will save more at the Funkie Junkie Boutique!

Sunday Share

It's time for our first Sunday Share.  What is Sunday Share all about?  Since this blog is sponsored by the Funkie Junkie Boutique, we want to have a place where our customers can share what they have made with items from the boutique.

It's a linky party and you can share any creation here that has not been shared on this blog.  It does not need to be a new project but you cannot share the same thing here more than once.

Each Sunday Share will run 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.

How can you share?  I've had a number of inquiries on how to share if you are new to blogging or if you don't have a blog.  If you already have a blog, you can post on your blog and then link your project through the linky system below. If you do not have a blog, you can still play along.  You will need a digital camera.  You can share by uploading directly from your computer or you can use some sort of public photo sharing site. I suggest SplitCoastStampers.  You must be a member but there is no fee for basic membership.  Uploads for the basic accounts are moderated and sometimes it takes awhile for your card to appear.  For a small annual fee you can upgrade and your posts there are live immediately.

How to link up your project:  
1)  click on the blue frog "Add Your Link"
2) it opens a window and asks for the URL (click the title of your post or click your photo in a host site and copy the URL that appears in the navigation bar at the top of your screen).  Paste it into the URL field.
3) type in your name and your email address and click the blue frog button NEXT STEP.
4) a new page will open and it gives you the option to select a photo from your blog, upload from your computer or provide a URL from a hosting site.  Click on the tab for the option that best suits you and click on the "add" button under the image you want to add.
5) you should be good to go.  If not please leave us a comment so we can help you figure it out.

Hope to see a lot of sharing going on all this week!

UPDATE:  Please note I did change this to 25% discount, rather than 35%.  My margin is less than 30% on many items so I thought I needed to adjust that before we have any entries this week.

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