Saturday Step by Step - Haunted for Life

Hello friends and welcome, Zoe here and I'm delighted to be hosting this Saturday step by step. I have been having so much fun with the new Tim Holtz seasonal line. With the current challenge "show us your stamps," and Halloween just a few weeks away, I thought I would make a Halloween card. Here's how...

Step 1: Take a piece of distress watercolour cardstock, ink up the background stamp using a DIY distress ink pad, (mine is made up on weathered wood, iced spruce, bundled sage, frayed burlap and gathered twigs distress ink).

Step 2: Lightly mist the stamp with water and stamp onto the distress watercolour cardstock using the Tim Holtz stamp platform. Remove cardstock and dry with a heat tool.

Step 3: Trim the background to 3.5 x 5.25 inches.

Step 4: Blend antique linen distress ink into the background and edge with walnut stain distress ink. Dry with a heat tool.

Step 5: Using a distress sprayer, spray large drops of water onto the background and dry with a heat tool.

 Step 6: Once completely dry, blend in some more antique linen distresss ink to tone down the bleached spots, (you can skip this step if you prefer).

Step 7: Ink up the cobweb background stamp with hickory smoke distress archival ink from the Tim Holtz designer ink palette. Stamp over the top of the skulls damask background using the stamp platform for perfect placement.

Step 8: Ink up the haunted mansion stamp with black soot distress archival ink, again using the Tim Holtz designer ink palette and stamp using the stamp platform.

Step 9: Continue inking and stamping until you have an image you're happy with.

Step 10: Working quickly, before the distress archival ink dries, cover the stamped image with clear embossing powder. Gently tap off excess and melt with a heat tool.

Step 11: Carefully paint the windows and lantern with fossilized amber distress paint using a water brush. I removed the water so I could use the brush dry and not dilute the paint.

Step 12: Layer the backgroundas follows:
Base Card 4.5 x 6.25 inches.
Halloween paper stash 4.25 x 6 inches edged with walnut stain distress ink.
Kraft Core Metallic 4 x 5.75 inches sanded and blended with walnut stain distress ink.
Kraft Core Nostalgic 3.75 x 5.5 inches sanded and blended with walnut stain distress ink.

Step 13: Stitch around the edge of the card, add a word sticker and attach to the background with idea-ology fasteners.

I hope you have enjoyed the step by step. Be sure to pop over and take a look at the current Show Us Your Stamps challenge.

Have a great weekend.

Zoe

Tim Holtz Stamp Platform by Tonic Studios	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Haunted House	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Skulls and Cobwebs	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Watercolor Cardstock	Ranger Designer Palette - Tim Holtz AMP47704 (February Pre-Order)
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Mini Stash Halloween	Tim Holtz ideaology Metallic Kraft Stock TH93586	(February Pre-order) Tim Holtz Idea-ology 8 x 8 Classic Kraft Stock	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Clipping Sticker Halloween	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Long Fasteners
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress It Yourself Pad	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Antique Linen	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Stain	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Fossilized Amber	Ranger Embossing Powder - Clear
Ranger Tim Holtz Weathered Wood Distress Ink Reinker	Ranger Tim Holtz Seasonal Distress Ink Reinker - Iced Spruce	Ranger Tim Holtz Bundled Sage Distress Ink Reinker	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Reinker Frayed Burlap	Ranger Tim Holtz Seasonal Distress Ink Reinker - Gathered Twigs
Tim Holtz Water Brush, Detailer Brush Nib	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer	Ranger Inkssentials Mister Bottle	Tim Holtz Ranger Idea-ology Sanding Grip	Ranger Heat It Craft Tool

Guest Designer - Louise Hodge

Today we are welcoming a Guest Designer to Frilly and Funkie. Please say hello to Louise Hodge from Passion Creations who was the Design Team's favourite from the On The Cutting Edge challenge.

Hi my name is Louise and I am so very happy and honored to be a guest designer again at Frilly and Funkie. Crafting is my hobby and a true passion of mine, I don't really have a particular style as I love to create and try new things. I have wanted to try mixed media for the longest time and a few months ago I basically dove right in, a couple of online classes with Finnabair as well as new products (Gesso, inks, waxes, IOD molds, paper clay etc...) and now I'm totally hooked. Lately I've been creating notebooks, this challenge is Show Us Your Stamps, so this time I incorporated stamps to my project.

I used heavy chipboard, applied white Gesso some stenciling and used Distress Oxide for the color, antique Linen, Frayed Burlap and Iced spruce them randomly stamped with black archival ink. I also stamped a few images on kraft card stock with the same inks and technique as the background. Then comes the fun part, I used paper clay with IOD molds, flowers, coagulated cardboard, beads, metal trinkets, die cuts and applied white Gesso. For the final touch, I used inks and waxes and played around with all of it before getting the desired finish I was looking for.

Since I'm still new at this, when I was done I had so many different inks and waxes that I'm not sure of the final recipe, but the part I do love is you can't really go wrong, it's so much fun and addictive and I really like how it turned out. Thanks for having me as guest designer with such a creative team.

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To get more details on how Louise altered her notebook, just go to her blog. You still have until Tuesday, October 10th at 11:55 pm EST to create a project for the current challenge Show Us Your Stamps, which can be found HERE.

Show Us Your Stamps

Hello, Friends! Autumn with you to announce our latest challenge here on the Frilly and Funkie Blog. The theme for the challenge is "Show Us Your Stamps." Our challenge this round can be summed up with one word - STAMPS! We want to see you break out those stamps and get inky. There are so many ways to use stamps, and you probably have a few you have never even used - so come play along! We cannot wait to see your stamped vintage or shabby chic creations.

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. If you are entering through a public forum (such as Instagram) you'll need to include the words Frilly and Funkie 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.

Now let's see some amazing inspiration from our talented Funkie team:

Suzanne Czosek - Suzz's Stamping Spot

Sara Emily - sarascloset

Jenny Marples - Pushing The Right Buttons

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WEEK ONE

Now let's see the wonderful inspiration from our talented Frilly team:

Kathy Clement - Kathy by Design

Cec Wintonyk - CW Creations

Autumn Clark - SewPaperPaint

I hope this puts you in the stamping mood! You have until midnight on Tuesday, October 10th to link up your project below. We can't wait to see what you make!

Happy stamping! 

Autumn

Challenge Winners - To Everything There Is A Season

Hi everyone! Today we announce our latest Frilly and Funkie winners but first, a big thank you to everyone who entered the 'To Everything There Is A Season' challenge. The Design Team loved looking at all the beautiful projects when picking our overall winner.

This time we chose #22 Inkysplatters (Donna) with her altered mailbox. We loved the clever rust effect finish given to this mailbox and the bright Fall leaves that embellish it. Congratulations Donna on being our favourite and winning the opportunity to be a Guest Designer here at Frilly and Funkie for a future challenge. You will be contacted shortly with all the details.

And now for the three winners of our Frilly and Funkie Top 3 Badges for this challenge; the choices in numerical order are... #9 Ivy Ling, #15 Art With Yogi and #18 Jane Tyrell! 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 #6 Barb Turpin! Please email Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com for the gift certificate details.

A big thank you again from the Frilly and Funkie team to everyone who took part in this challenge and congratulations to all our winners. The current challenge, 'Show Us Your Stamps' runs through Tuesday, October 10th. We hope to see you entering this time around so that you too can be in with a chance to win. And don't forget to check out the inspiration from the Funkie side of the Design Team which will be shared on Wednesday, October 4th.

Have a great week everyone!