Friday Focus - Stencils

Hello Everyone! It's Pamellia, and I am here today to hostess the Friday Focus. I will be working with one of my favourite products...stencils! Linda carries several wonderful brands of stencils at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. For the next two weeks there will be an additional 15% discount on most stencils in the shop (excludes the new 2015 Summer Releases).

I decided to put together a card that can be used for a wedding card or for an anniversary card. The "together forever" sentiment is from the Tim Holtz Chit Chat sticker book and I think it will work for both occasions just fine.

For the back panel, I used some texture paste and the Wendy Vecchi Basically Bricks stencil to lay down the pattern. I coloured the bricks with some Gathered Twigs distress ink spray and Dylusions Melted Chocolate ink spray. I dabbed a little Picket Fence paint on the top to highlight the ridges.

For the middle panel, I coloured a piece of paper with Tim Holtz distress inks Worn Lipstick and Vintage Photo, then I used the Latticework stencil and dabbed the Picket Fence paint through the stencil to create the pattern. I did two coats to get a nice stark white.

For the top panel, I coloured the paper with Vintage Photo and spritzed on a little water to create some interest, then I sprayed the Flourish stencil with Gathered Twigs distress spray. I turned the stencil over and pressed it down onto the paper created a wonderful distressed version of the negative part of the stencil.

Both of the tags were cut with the Sizzix Tag Collection die set and coloured with Worn Lipstick and Vintage Photo. For the top tag, I used the Tim Holtz Stripes stencil and sponged on some Vintage Photo to create stripes.

I used some texture paste and the Wildflower stencil to lay down the pattern. Once the paste was dried, I placed the stencil back down on the tag in the same position and used Distress paints Barn Door and Peeled Paint to add colour to the texture paste. This is a great technique for experimenting with colours. The paste changes the hues of the paint, turning the red and green into more of a deep salmon pink and olive.

For the second tag I used the Gothic stencil and sponged on some Vintage Photo to create the base pattern. I slightly nudged the stencil a bit and then put down a layer of texture paste creating a shadowed look on the design.

I used the Wendy Vecchi 3 Flourishes stencil and some texture paste on a scrap piece of paper and while the paste was still wet, I covered it with Wendy Vecchi's Fern Green embossing powder. When the paste was dry I heated the powder and melted it.

I fussy cut out the leaves and sprayed them with Twisted Citron and Chopped Pesto ink sprays. I ended up going back after I put the camera away and spritizing it again with some Peeled Paint to darken it up a bit, then I dabbed a little Picket Fence on them to mute the colour.

I layered everything with some white backing panels just to break up the colours a bit. I added some butterflies from the French Flight stamp set which I stamped with Wendy Vecchi Potting Soil ink and coloured with Mustard Seed. The flower was cut with the Tattered Florals die and also coloured with Mustard Seed and dusted with Rock Candy Dry distress glitter. The beautiful pearls are from Linda's shop.

The seam binding was coloured with Tim Holtz distress ink Festive Berries and I dabbed it with Picket Fence to mute the colour to match the flowers on the tag. The bodies of the butterflies was done with Liquid Pearls covered in Distress Dry Glitter Rock Candy. I included a close up so you can see the pretty glitter.

I hope you enjoyed my techniques on different ways you can use stencils to decorate you cards. There are many more stencils available at Linda's shop that I know you will just love!  And all the stencils (with the exception of  the new 2015 Summer Releases) are on sale.

All of the below products can be found at The Funkie Junkie Boutique and don't forget that all the stencils in the shop will have an extra 15% discount applied for the next two weeks.


Happy crafting, Pamellia :)

Welcome to today's Guest Designer, Ruth!

Today we are welcoming Ruth of  A Love to Create as our Guest Designer. Ruth was picked by the DT as the winner of the Something to Say challenge. So, without further a do, let's move on to hear from Ruth !

Hi everyone, I am absolutely delighted and honoured to be a guest designer here this week, this is such a talented design team! I live in the North West of England and have dabbled in crafts for most of my life. I started with knitting, crochet and needlework as a child and have since explore sugarcraft, card making and my most recent passion is mixed media. I just love exploring, experimenting and creating, hence my blog title 'a love to create' (argeum.blogspot.co.uk) My style is quite eclectic from vintage and shabby chic to CAS and grungy. Inky and painty with some texture is my ideal!

I decided to decorate a small box canvas in a vintage shabby chic style. I stamped my main 'winged' angel image onto tissue paper in vintage sepia ink and then spread embossing paste though a stencil on the sides.

I then used a combination of Fresco chalk paints in cream, chocolate and pink to dry brush the sides and edges before gluing the image down with matte medium. After adding the embellishments they were painted and then highlighted with Treasure Gold.

I'm sure you'll all agree that Ruth's canvas is beautiful and has provided even more inspiration for the current challenge which is Things with Wings. There's still time to join in and who knows you may be the next DT winner and be asked to join us as Guest Designer! 

Things With Wings

Hello, Cec here and I am the hostess for the new challenge starting today.  I am calling this one 'Things With Wings'. Use anything with wings as the focal point on your vintage or shabby chic projects this time. Be it of the animal, fantasy or mechanical variety we want your creativity to take flight!

The team will choose their top four picks with the winner being invited to join us in a Guest DT spot here at Frilly and Funkie and the next three will receive badges to display on their blogs.  Everyone who enters and follows the rules will be entered into the draw to have the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

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. Make sure you follow these rules as unfortunately we have had to eliminate entrants from the prize draws in the past when they have entered too many other challenges. If you are entering through a public forum please use keyword F&F. Also, please be sure to turn off your Word Verification so our Design Team can leave comments on your blogs.

And now let's see the Funkie team's take on our Things With Wings Challenge:

Jenny Marples - Pushing The Right Buttons

Sue Carrington - Stamping Sue Style

Shelly Hickox - Stamptramp

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

The Frilly side of the team are bringing these projects for your inspiration.  To get the details of their wonderful creations, just click on their blog names to be taken to their blogs.

Cec Wintonyk - CW Card Creations

Pamellia Johnson - My Little Craft Things

Nancy Dynes - Tattered Treasures 

Georgie Connelly - Little Blue Craft Box

I hope you will all spend some time in your craft space over the next two weeks and create something with wings to share with us - we love seeing your creations. Jenny will be here on Saturday with a new Step by Step so make sure you pop back then, and the Funkie side of the team will be here next week with even more inspiration.

Challenge Winners - Raise It Up!

Welcome to the start of a new week here at Frilly and Funkie. It's time to announce the winners of the 'Raise It Up!' challenge. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to enter with your incredible layered projects. The whole team commented on how much we are continually inspired by the work you produce. In the end the Design Team picked our winner and it's #39 Sara Emily Barker.

We thought Sara Emily's card was superb, lots of layers and dimension and so many clever techniques on each one combining perfectly. Congratulations Sara Emily on being our favourite for the 'Raise It Up!' challenge and winning the opportunity to be a Guest Designer here at Frilly and Funkie for a future challenge.

And now for the next three winners of our Frilly and Funkie Top 3 Badges... #8 Samra, #15 Max and #32 Catherine (Ammaris Art)!!! 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 Random.org has chosen a winner for our $25 gift certificate to The Funkie Junkie Boutique. Our congratulations this time go to #18 Lorraine (Rainey's Craft Room)!

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 (Sara Emily) for the Top 3 badges (Samra, Max and Catherine) and for the gift certificate details (Lorraine).

Our current challenge, 'Things With Wings', runs through Tuesday, August 11th. We hope to see you entering this time around so that you too can be in with a chance to win. And please make sure you follow our rules; 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 everyone!

Saturday Step by Step - Folk Tag

Hi everyone and welcome. Jenny here to share a step by step tutorial for a fun mixed media tag. I was inspired by the recent fashion trend displaying the colours and designs from Eastern European folk costumes. Dark backgrounds contrast beautifully with bright colours and white outlines, flora and fauna designs, and wonderful trims. Let's get started...

(click on each image for a closer look)

Place a Kaisercraft Berry Vine and Bird Cage at the top of a jumbo tag and draw around them.

Spread Black embossing paste through the leaf section from the Build a Blossom SiSi to cover the pencilled areas.

Paint black gesso over the dried stencilled tag and wooden embellishments.

Paint over the stencilled areas with white gesso (this will help the colour layers to stand out more).

Spritz Frosty Frolic Green Starburst over the leaves, allow to run a little and dry with a heat gun.

Over spray in a few sections with Time Travel Teal Starburst, using a little water to help move it around if required, and dry with a heat gun.

Add a few drips of Rusty Lantern Lime Starburst and allow it to run. If your ink runs into places you're not happy with dab with tissue to remover the excess. Dry with a heat gun.

Using a small brush drip Frolic in the Forest Black Starburst down from the top of the tag and add a few splashes too. Dry with a heat gun.

Having previously used Wendy Vecchi's instructions to cut up my Lots of Leaves Background Stamp I took the single lines and bent them on my acrylic stamp block. This meant I could stamp trailing vines with embossing ink prior to adding Fern Green Embossing Powder. Heat set with a heat gun.

To highlight the stencilling I mixed a little Cornflower Blue, Sky Blue and Fern Green Embossing Powders together, replaced the stencil, applied embossing ink and scattered the mixed Powders over the top. Once again these were heat set with a heat gun.

I heat embossed the Berry Vine wooden embellishment with a mix of Fern Green and Tree Branch Embossing Powders.

I stamped the small flower head from the Art And You stamp set with embossing ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. Using a detailer brush I painted each flower with Abandoned Coral Distress Spray Stain before cutting them out.

Now it was time to assemble the tag. I glued the Berry Vine and Bird Cage back in place before adding the flower heads under and over the cage. White Pearl Embellishments were added to the flower centres and across the rest of the tag. Finally I stamped one of the sentiments from the All Occasion Art stamp set in white pigment ink and added a seam binding bow to the top. The tag was mounted onto a tall card blank. And here's the finished card (with a couple of close ups)...

I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial and give it a go. We'll be back on Monday with to announce the latest challenge winners so make sure you join us for that.

Whatever you're up to this weekend have a great one.

Jenny xxx