Saturday Step by Step: Home for the Holidays Gift Tag

Hello and welcome, Zoe here. I am delighted to be your host for this final Saturday Step by Step of the year with Frilly and Funkie. I created a gift tag for the current "Home for the Holidays" challenge and have an additional tag to share with some personalisation using the Alphanumeric Thinlits dies by Tim Holtz.

(click on each set of images for a closer look)

Step 1: Put a few drops of Picket Fence Distress Paint onto a non-stick craft mat and pick up with a brayer. Roll the brayer over a background stamp until covered.
Step 2: Stamp onto a manila tag and dry.
Step 3: Swipe different colour distress stains onto a non-stick craft mat, spritz the tag with water and drag through the Distress Stain. Dry with a heat tool.
Step 4: Blend in Vintage Photo and edge with Walnut Stain Distress Inks.

Step 5: Lay a mini stencil over the tag, secure with tape and tap clear embossing ink through the stencil.
Step 6: Remove the stencil, cover with Sticky Embossing Powder, tap of excess and melt with a heat tool.
Step 7: Rub foil sheets over the sticky embossing powder.
Step 8: Run a Mini Collage Glue Stick along the edges of the tag and immediately apply foil sheets.

Step 9: Die cut "Believe" from metallic kraft core and underlay with black card.
Step 10: For personalisation of your gift tag, use the Alphanumeric Thinlits dies to create your own wordband. This one's for my brother.
Step 11: Adhere the wordband to the center of the tag and attach mini fasteners to the corners. Colour the center of the word with a glitter pen.
Step 12: Stain linen ribbon with Vintage Photo Distress Stain.

Step 13:  Die cut Distress Watercolor Cardstock with the Mini Holiday Greens Thinlits set.
Step 14: Blend in Forest Moss Distress Ink and dry with a heat tool.
Step 15: Add Candied Apple Distress Marker to the berries of the Holiday Greens and once dry, cover with Garnet Liquid Pearls.
Step 16: Adhere the Holiday Greens above the wordband and add Jingle Brads.

Step 17: Stamp baubles from the Tim Holtz Holiday Drawing stamp set onto Distress Watercolor Cardstock with Black Soot Archival Ink.
Step 18: Colour with Wild Honey and Broken China Distress Markers, blend with a water brush and add glitter with a pen.
Step 19: Fussy cut the baubles removing the loop at the top.
Step 20: Turn the fussy cut images over, add 3D tape and a silver wire loop with a blob of Glossy Accents.

Step 21:  Attach a strip of wire through the wire loop and tuck under the wordband. Stick the fussy cut baubles into place with the 3D foam.

I hope you have enjoyed the step by step. Don' forget to take a look at the current "Home for the Holidays" challenge and have a great weekend.

Zoe x

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Friday Focus on Little Birdie Flowers!

Hello and welcome! I hope you're having an amazing day. It's Nancy here, and I have the pleasure of sharing Little Birdie Crafts fabulous paper flowers. In honor of our Friday Focus, all Little Birdie Crafts Flowers will be offered at an additional 15% off of the already discounted price for the next two weeks at The Funkie Junkie Boutique!

I absolutely adore these lovely flowers. They even have the sweetest name - Little Birdie! And do I ever love birds. I feed them, water them, and watch their adorable habits each day at my garden feeders. In honor of Little Birdie flowers I'm presenting this friendly retreat for feathered creatures - a woodsy altered birdcage overflowing with the floral delights of Little Birdie Crafts.

The flowers are the showstoppers here. I thought to include a step-by-step for this altered metal bird cage, but my process didn't go exactly as planned. At one point I thought I ruined it. In the end it didn't have the makings for a concise tutorial, but I've learned from my mistakes and I think it will go better next time.

The center of this secret garden holds a bird nest situated on a cool bed of moss. Little Birdie flowers cascade around and about the nest to create a sheltered hideaway. The sentiment is from an Impression Obsession set from Linda's shop. I feel that magic lives in every garden, even those created from paper. 

Little Birdie flowers in blue, gray, and pink of all shapes and sizes climb to the top of the distressed bird cage. Below is a close up view of some of the interior flowers. 

The tippy top is adorned with additional flowers and a twine bow. 

Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to visit! I send wishes for health, happiness, and many crafty pursuits. Don't forget to stop by The Funkie Junkie Boutique to pick up some Little Birdie Crafts Flowers while they're at this incredible bargain price. They also make great gifts for you're crafty friends!

Hugs,   

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Home for the Holidays!

Hello, Friends! It's Kathy here, and I'm thrilled to be hosting the FINAL Frilly and Funkie challenge for 2016. We are just a few short weeks away from Christmas! Can you believe it? With that in mind, I chose the theme Home for the Holidays for this go round.

Let's get ready to Deck the Halls by creating some home decor for the holiday season. You can make centerpieces, wreaths, banners, ornaments, wall hangings, or little vignettes... basically anything BUT a card for this challenge. If you don't celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, then just make some home decor with a wintry theme.

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 (such as Instagram) please add the blog challenge address. Also, please be sure to turn off your Word Verification so our Design Team can leave comments on your blogs.

It's now time to take a peek at the wonderful home decor projects the Funkie side of the team have created for you:

Suzanne Czosek - Suzz's Stamping Spot

Jenny Marples - Pushing The Right Buttons

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Double click image to zoom in for a better view. 

Zoe Hillman - iGirlZoe

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WEEK ONE

Let's take a peek at the beautiful home decor projects the Frilly side of the team has cooked up for you:

Kathy Clement - Kathy by Design

Pamellia Johnson - My Little Craft Things

Cec Wintonyk - CW Card Creations

Nancy Dynes - Tattered Treasures

I can't wait to see what you make! We'll be back tomorrow with a wonderful project from the latest Guest Designer and the Funkie side of the team will share their take on this theme next Wednesday.
For now,

Cheerio,

kathy

Challenge Winners - Bountiful Harvest

Here we are at the start of a new week and it's time to announce our latest Frilly and Funkie challenge winners. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to enter our 'Bountiful Harvest' challenge. The Design Team adored the way you all celebrated Fall and the harvest and had many favourites to choose from. This time our overall winner is #6 Sara Emily.

We loved the amazing amount of texture Sara Emily had added to this small canvas and marvelled at the fact she even created her own stencil for it. Congratulations Sara Emily on being our favourite for the 'Bountiful Harvest' 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; this week's choices, in numerical order, are... #4 Toni (Studio Garage Band), #5 Juli Riedel, and #8 Donna (Inkysplatters)!!! 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 lucky winner for the $25 gift certificate to The Funkie Junkie Boutique. Our congratulations this time go to #3 Cecilia H!

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 (Toni, Juli and Donna) and for the gift certificate details (Cecilia).

Our current challenge, 'Home for the Holidays!' runs through Tuesday, December 13th. We hope to see you entering this time around so that you too can be in with a chance to win.

Have a great week everyone!

Guest Designer - Louise Hodge

It is time to say hello and welcome to a new Guest Designer.  Meet Louise Hodge of Passion Creations who was the Design Team's Top Pick from our A Very Vintage Halloween challenge and take a look at her wonderful project for our Home From The Holidays challenge.

"I'm a proud mother of two grown boys and live in Quebec, Canada on a farm with my hubby and two labs.

 I have been stamping for 9 years, it all started after I created a 50th wedding anniversary album for my parents and fell in love with this hobby.

I don't really have a specific style, I like trying all kinds of new techniques finding just the right embellishment and sparkle to add. I create mostly cards however lately have a craving for home decor and altered projects.

I'm so thrilled and honored to be GDT at Frilly and Funkie for this challenge with such an amazing and talented team."

"For this challenge of "Home for the Holidays" I created an Advent Calendar using Tim Holtz matchbox die. I used papers from his Seasonal paper stash as well as Nostalgic Kraft-core to give it that vintage look. I created the gifts and gift bags with the help of my scor-pal, the snow effect was built up with tissue paper and glass glitter (lots of it).

I'm very pleased how it turned out and it will be a beautiful focal point on my mantle. Hope you all like it."

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Head on over to Louise's blog and check out all the details and more views of her fabulous advent calendar and then come on back and share your creation for the Home For The Holidays challenge. You have lots of time as the challenge is open through December 13th at 11:55 pm EST - just in time for Christmas.