Guest Designer - Denise du Toit

It is time to welcome our Guest Designer for the current challenge. Please say hello to Denise du Toit who was the Design Team's favourite from the With This Ring challenge. Denise does not have a blog but you can find her work on Pinterest here. Since she does not have a blog, Denise has provided a step x step tutorial for her project and there are lots of details to look at so put your feet up and enjoy.

Hi everyone, my name is Denise and I live in Johannesburg, South Africa with my husband Andre. I work as an office manager and play action netball. I started scrapbooking in High School and my crafting evolved into altered items when I started making “keepsake boxes” as gifts for baby showers and birthdays. I find it very satisfying to present handmade gifts to friends and family. My creativity often gets boosted by my best friend, Lariska, who is a graphic designer. We craft together when possible and often 2 brains are better than one.

When I start a project the end result is very often quite removed from the original idea – mostly resulting in a better finished project. This is partially due to the fact that I don’t always have a lot of time to craft so the ideas linger for a while before becoming reality.

I love making decorations with a Christmas theme and using different techniques. I am a big fan of Tim Holtz and all his products, ideas and techniques.

My entry in the “With This Ring Challenge” was pure coincidence as the item was a gift for a friend’s bachelorette party. I was so surprised and delighted to be chosen as the challenge winner!!

When I received the challenge theme I was unsure what I would create as I don’t really read much. I then got the idea to create a “Library”. This soon evolved into a themed library from one of my old time favourite Disney movies, Beauty and the Beast. We went to watch the remake earlier this year and I absolutely loved it.

So, herewith my Beauty and the Beast library:

PROJECT DETAILS:

I found an old book to use as a base for my project and glued the book together with multi medium. I then started with the elements for the project.

1. I began by cutting the pieces of the Luminary die and one of the pediments from a heavy watercolour paper.

2. Colour all the pieces with a mixture of Distress Oxide, Ink and Paint.

3. Coloured pieces.

4. Ink edges of all pieces with Pumice Stone DI and lightly with Faded Jeans DO.

5. I gathered supplies to start making embellishments to represent Cogsworth and Lumiere.

6. I drew the body part for the Cogsworth, then painted and cut out the chipboard piece.

7. For Lumiere I made ‘candlesticks’ from toothpicks and some hot glue which I then painted and added a teardrop shape gem on a piece of thin wire. I painted these with white and pearl paints.

8. Mini books: A. Make “book covers” from scrap pieces of cardboard covered with paper and cut paper to fill the “books” with. B. I added titles to the mini books with silver ink and stamps that had appropriate text. C. Some more detail was added by sticking nail art decals to the book covers.

9. I used a small metal trinket and some wire to create a hand mirror. This was painted silver and a piece of mirror board inserted to create the mirror effect.

10. I wanted to add some pink to the rose for the “floating rose” so I used Seedless Preserves and Candied Apple DO for added effect.

11. Die cut the medium rose from the Tim Holtz Thinlits set. Adhere a piece clear jewelery thread to the edge. Roll the rose with a quilling tool and glue. Set aside to dry.

12. I coloured a piece of soft thick wire with alcohol inks for the stem.

13. The “stem” was attached to the rose bud with glossy accents and a small leaf added to the stem. I glued the jewelery thread into a small clear bead and with glossy accents adhered the bead to the top of the glass dome. Let this sit upside down to dry.

14. Cut 2 pieces of stone from the Mixed Media die.

15. Colour with DS to get a stone effect.

16. Adhere the die cut pieces to a piece of kraft paper with multi medium and sprinkle distress embossing powder (Pumice stone) over wet multi medium. Leave to dry completely. Once dry, shake off excess powder and heat set. Before adhering this to the base I coloured the edges with DC.

17. I used the largest banner from the banner thinlits set and aged it with DI, DO and DS.

18. Added my sentiment with rub-ons and stamps.

19. Add the words LIBRARY to the pediment with sticky rub ons and gold foil.

20. Stamp a flourish with DI and DO on the underside of the roof pieces.

21. Cut a piece of kraft paper slightly smaller than the book to make the base piece. A. I scraped gesso over and let it dry. B. Then added stenciling with DP and coated with Distress Crazing medium, set aside to dry. C. Once dry add DC to the panel blending with fingertip. Distress edges and adhere to book base.

22. A. I had printed 2 stained glass images onto acetate and coloured the images with Alcohol Inks. B. I then added Diamond Dust glitter to the back of the acetate with double sided tape to create a textured stained glass look. C. The back window of the luminary was stamped with a shattered glass stamp and heat embossed, I added some frosted vinyl behind the acetate and rubbed white DC over the image.

23. A. Adhere the panels of the luminary together with the tab on the long edge. Use a glue stick to add gold foiling randomly to all the pieces including the roof. B. Turn the panel pieces over to adhere the windows into the openings. I printed a scene from the movie showing the library on metallic vellum and adhered this with a curve to create depth in the luminary. C. Finish the assembly by adhering all the tabs of the pieces together to create the luminary base.

24. I like to add some more interest to the roof of this structure by using pearls between the roof and the main structure. A. Pierce holes with a hole piercer in the corners of the main structure. B. Also pierce holes in the corners of the roof piece and insert a decorative pin (these were white, I coloured them with alcohol ink) from the top through the roof structure, add some glossy accents to help keep this in place. C. Then add a larger bead/pearl to the bottom of the roof structure, again using some glossy accents to keep this in place. You would need to measure the space available for the pin to go into the structure and cut the excess of the pin off. Push the pins through the holes of the main structure, securing with glossy accents. D. Add the pediment to the front of the luminary.

25. A & B. I coloured white seam binding with a mixture of DS and DP. The ribbon was crinkled and left to dry, I made a bow, adding some gold string and tulle. C. This was adhered to the centre of the roof. 26. Then assembly started, I added the stone piece on the kraft base. I glued down the inside base of the luminary after finding the position of the main structure (some stenciling was added to this piece to flow from the image used in the window). The books were placed to the right of the structure position.

27. I adhered the floating rose and magic mirror on the left corner of the book base.

28. Cogsworth and Lumiere was placed to the left of the main structure leaving space for the banner title to be positioned in front of the structure.

29. Glue down the banner (I had also added gold foiling to the edges of the banner) and place the main structure over the base.

30. Finally I also inserted a small electric tea light of which I coloured the light section with yellow alcohol ink to soften the glow.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to showcase my creation on the Frilly and Funkie blog.

Supply list:

Dies:
Sizzix Tim Holtz Luminary Bigz Die
Sizzix Tim Holtz Pediments Die
Sizzix Tim Holtz Tattered Banners Die
Sizzix Tim Holtz Small Tattered Florals die
Sizzix Tim Holtz Mixed Media Die Set 3

Other:
Tim Holtz Lattice Stencil
Tim Holtz Glass Dome
Seam Binding
Gold String
Kraft Paper
Watercolour Paper
Gold Tulle
Blue Pearls
Pearl Pins
Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder – Pumice Stone
Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Various
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide – Various
Tim Holtz Distress Stain – Various
Tim Holtz Distress Paint – Various
Alcohol Ink – Various
Glossy Accents
Glue gun & glue sticks
Double sided tape
Acetate
Glue stick and foil
Diamond Dust Glitter
Multi Medium

Here are a few more views of the library from different angles:

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Now that you have seen Denise's fun creation and have checked out all the inspiration provided by the Design Team, we hope you will share your project for the Read Any Good Books Lately challenge.  You still have time as it runs until 11:55 pm EST on August 15th.

Read Any Good Books Lately?

Welcome friends and visitors! It's Sara Emily here, and I'm hosting my first challenge as a Frilly and Funkie Design Team member. Let's take a look at what I've chosen for the next two week's challenge...

Read Any Good Books Lately? Reading a good book on the beach or on the porch is a simple summer pleasure. For this challenge, please create a vintage or shabby chic project that depicts a favorite book or use book pages on your project, alter a book or even make a journal or journal page! Just be sure it's in the vintage or shabby chic style that we are looking for!

At the end of the challenge the team will choose their top four picks. Our first place winner will be invited to join us for a Guest Designer spot here at Frilly and Funkie. Three additional talented participants will receive badges to display on their blogs. Everyone who enters and adheres to the challenge guidelines will be entered into a drawing 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 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.

Here is some inspiration from the Funkie side of the team:

Sara Emily - sarascloset

Jenny Marples - Pushing The Right Buttons

Suzanne Czosek - Suzz's Stamping Spot

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WEEK ONE

Let's see what inspiration the Frilly side of the team has prepared for us. To get all of the details of these lovely projects just click on the blog link above each photo, and you will be taken directly to each designer's blog.

Kathy Clement - Kathy by Design

Autumn Clark - SewPaperPaint

Cec Wintonyk - CW Card Creations

Now that you've seen what the Frilly girls have created, I hope you are inspired to pull out your crafty goodies and share a vintage or shabby chic project depicting a favorite book or somehow relating to a book as noted in the description above. We can't wait to see what you'll create! For even more inspiration check back next week when the Funkie side of the team and our latest Guest Designer will be here to share their Good Books creations with you.

Hugs!

Sara Emily

Challenge Winners - Christmas in July

It is time to announce the winners from our Christmas in July challenge. Thank you to everyone who entered their Christmas-themed projects - there was a lovely variety.

After some deliberation the Design Team has chosen this wonderful ornament by # 20 Donna Billek of Inkysplatters as their overall winner. Congratulations Donna, this ornament will look fabulous hanging on your Christmas tree. You will be contacted shortly with an opportunity to be a Guest Designer at a future date.

And now for the three winners of our Frilly and Funkie Top 3 Badges; the choices are... #5 Denise du Toit, #4 Tip Top and #8 Plony!!! 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 #12 Lia as the lucky winner of a $25 gift certificate to The Funkie Junkie Boutique. Congratulations and please email Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com for the gift certificate details - have fun shopping.

Congratulations again to all our winners. We hope everyone will join us for the current challenge, Read Any Good Books Lately, which can be found here and runs until 11:55 pm EST on August 15th. The Frilly side of the team has some wonderful inspiration to share with you and on Wednesday, August 9th the Funkie side will have even more fabulous projects to share followed by our Guest Designer on Thursday.

Friday Focus - Dina Wakley Media Heavy Body Paints (part one)

Hi everyone and welcome! It's Jenny here with the latest Friday Focus - this is where we take the opportunity to shine a spotlight on a particular product or range currently in stock at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. For the next two weeks Dina Wakley Media Heavy Body Paints will have the special extra 15% discount applied so if you're already a fan or want to try them out now is the time to give it a go! There are smaller 1oz bottles as well as the larger 2oz tubes if you are just trying them out.

As a lover of all things painty I was excited to try these paints for the first time and find out what made them different from those I use regularly. And since there are lots of card-makers out there who may feel paints are just for canvases I decided to create two cards and experiment with a few techniques. Today I'll share the first of those and show you how it came together - you'll have to tune in next Friday for the second card/tutorial!

Here's the first card I created - it may look complicated at first glance but you're about to find out that it was easy and fun to do! And if you click on each photo you'll get a closer look at them.

The initial layer was created in the same way as a recent journal cover (instructions/pictures here). Briefly, this comprised taking a piece of black card, randomly brushing White Gesso over, adding pieces of sewing pattern with Matte Distress Collage Medium and adding a little more White Gesso. I stamped blooms over this with Hickory Smoke Distress Ink (drying with a heat gun) then painted them in with Ruby and Evergreen Heavy Body Paint, loving the fact that this paint is so opaque that you only need one layer! Plus, since Distress Inks are water reactive, that dark grey colour disappeared into the paint!!

I stamped one of the ladies from the Homage to Frida set on thick white card using the same ink as before and painted her. Now I'm no portrait artist so I took Blushing paint, added some White to it and went over the lines across the face. By adding a slightly darker shade (less white) around the edges and on her cheeks it gave the face a little more dimension, and a little Blushing on it's own worked a treat for her lips.

I mixed Umber and Elephant to create the hair colour, then went back to Ruby and Evergreen to colour the flowers, dress and earrings. They don't take long to dry and I suggest making sure each section is dry before you start the next to prevent blurring the lines.

To add highlights I added a quick C shaped swirl of the Blushing shade over the flowers.

The Lime shade was perfect for adding highlights to the leaves and for finishing the earrings. If this all looks a bit technical and 'arty' bear in mind I didn't try to be careful or accurate with any of this because the stamping that came next hides a multitude of sins!

Here's that stamping stage - I find adding paint to sponge one of the easiest ways to apply a controlled layer of paint to stamps, using it in the same way you would an ink pad. Using the Umber shade I stamped the same flowers over the original ones, deliberately offsetting them from the originals for that 50's look. I did the same with the face stamp, again offsetting it from the painted version.

To finish the background I applied White paint through the Jumbled Numbers stencil using a stencil brush.

Here's that finished stamped face. I tore away the edges before blending Old Paper over (the paint will resist the ink) and adding Walnut Stain to the edges.

To finish I added the floral/stencilled background to a card blank and stitched around the edges. Then it was a case of grabbing lace trims, paper offcuts (including some from next week's card!) and layering them all under the face. The sentiment was stamped with black archival ink onto white card and added on top.

Here are a couple of close ups to show how I piled up the layers;

That's it for this week and the first part of the Friday Focus on Dina Wakley Media Heavy Body Paints. I hope you feel inspired to give them a go (if you haven't already)  and remember, the extra 15% discount will be applied through August 17th.

I'll be back next Friday with the second helping of inspiration so I hope you can join me for that. For now have a great creative weekend! Jenny xxx