Friday, November 10, 2017

Friday Focus -- All Things Christmas!

Hi Friends and visitors! It's Sara Emily here to welcome you to this week's Friday Focus where I will share ideas, tips and techniques focusing on Christmas products currently available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. For the next two weeks, all Christmas products in stock will be discounted an additional 15% off Linda's already discounted prices. With this extra savings, you will want to hurry over and stock up for your upcoming Christmas crafting or maybe even pick up a gift or two! At these prices I'm sure things will be selling out fast!


Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year to create, and with the vast amount of supplies available, my head is spinning with ideas! I couldn't wait to use every Christmas product I have, and I thought a Christmas junk journal would give me plenty of space to use my new goodies.

I was gifted with 3 sets of Eileen Hull's ScoreBoards XL Journals cut from matboard by blog buddy Julia Aston (Create With Me) this summer. I was thrilled with her generous gift, but honestly, I have been very intimidated by all the beautiful journals I've seen created out there in blogland that I have been slow to get on the journal bandwagon. A huge thank you to Julia for this awesome gift! I am so grateful for these die cuts, and I thoroughly enjoyed making this.

I'm afraid my colors are a little off. I had to take photos under my craft light, since it was pouring cats and dogs today! I promise this really is more red than pink!


I was really inspired by Linda's Christmas tag here and the stencil technique she used, so I borrowed it to decorate my journal covers. I gave the outer covers a coat of gesso, dried and then applied Prima  clear crackle texture paste through the plaid stencil from mini set #32. I repeated this 4 times allowing to dry thoroughly each time.  I blended with Fired Brick Distress ink and spritzed with water.I rubbed Distress crayons in Walnut Stain and Antiqued Bronze into the cracks.


I covered the spine with one of Tim Holtz' Textile Surfaces, and used a Christmas Clippings sticker to cover the join. I used one of the reindeer head charms to dangle off the spine, having colored it with Picket Fence Distress paint and a dab of alcohol ink to the nose.


To embellish the front, I chose my brand spankin' new Tree Rings die and included embossing folder, some Thinlits Holiday Greens and the buck from the Winter Wonderland Thinlits die set. Love this deer; I'm sure he will be used on lots of Christmas cards this season! For my title, I chose a Christmas Quote Chip I knew I wouldn't use and that would be the right size for a sentiment from last year's favorite stamp set--Scribble Woodland (AND it's still available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique at the time I posted this).



Onto the inside covers. I chose a plaid from Tim's Christmas Mini Stash and adhered to both the front and back inside cover using Distress Collage Medium Matte. I borrowed the idea to use Quote Chips as a Christmas tree from Tim's Holiday release video. Many thanks to the member of his design team that came up with that! I stamped and fussy cut just the trunk of a tree from Christmas Blueprints set.


For my signature covers I chose three different papers from Tim's Christmas Kraft Stock. I'll only be showing the covers today. If you're interested in seeing how I made the pages, please stop back next Friday, when I will be sharing Friday Focus Part 2.


For my first signature, I borrowed another idea I saw on Tim's Holiday Release video. I love the retro look of this Santa and of the Christmas sentiment that is included in this set-Christmas Classic by Tim Holtz. I heat embossed my sentiment, then cut around it the best I could with a blade and my failing eyesight! I seriously think it's time for readers!




I dry embossed my second signature cover with Tim's Poinsettia Texture Fade after scoring and folding in half. This left me with two embossed and two debossed surfaces to work on. I sanded the embossed surfaces (front cover and back inside cover).  I blended the front sanded cover with Distress Ink and smudged with Distress Crayon in Picket Fence. I also carefully dabbed with one of the new metallic crayons and heat set it. I love the sweet smallest poinsettia petals from the Tattered Poinsettia die-a perfect size for this type of project. I used an old embossing folder for the top layer of leaves. The glittery layers are the last I have in my stash that I made years ago.


Moving along to the inside cover of this signature. I simply blended inks on the debossed surface and applied Mercury Glass Stickles to the berries. This is really stunning in real life! You can see I had to add a strip of washi tape to the fold, as it was starting to tear. I rarely use decorative tapes, but I wish I had ordered Tim's Christmas Decorative Tape just for this functional use.


The inside cover of the back of this second signature is really pretty and very retro looking in real life. Before sanding the raised areas, I blended the entire panel with Candy Apple Distress Oxide which really sinks into the fibers. I had to do a lot of sanding to get it off just the tips of the raised areas. Then I went back in with a bit of metallic Distress crayon on my finger and swiped on the tips of the petals, then heat set. It's important to heat set, or everyone who looks at your journal with be sparkly. I love this easy way to achieve the look of foiling. The metallic set comes with Tarnished Brass (looks like gold), Brushed Pewter (looks like silver) and Antique Bronze, so you can choose a  'foil' to match any holiday (and after) project.


On the back side I simply blended with Distress inks and dotted the flower centers with Stickles.




Are you still with me? My last signature is simply decorated with a Holiday Quote Chip and Tim's Holiday Wreath cut from Kraft Core Nostalgic Collection and a scrap of Christmas Kraft Stock. I added a few extra holly leaves smudged with metallic Distress crayon. I colored two tiny Baubles with alcohol inks-Gold Mixative and Mushroom.These came from the little thank you goodie bag with my last Funkie Junkie order. Linda has the best customer service at The Funkie Junkie; your goodies arrive QUICKLY, all wrapped and packaged very carefully. And my favorite part is the goodie bag she includes in every order as her way of saying thank you!


Inside, I just stamped with Iced Spruce Distress Oxide and an image from Sparkles and Christmas. Very effective on the kraft background. Again, I used a bit of tape to keep my fold from tearing. Again wishing I had gotten the Christmas design tape!

Hopefully, that's some inspiration to get you started on your Christmas crafting (if you're not already)! If you're looking for more Christmas inspiration, head on over to the Funkie Junkie blog where Linda is underway with her 12 Tags of Christmas Funkie Junkie Style. Remember all Christmas products are discounted an additional 15% for the next two weeks at The Funkie Junkie Boutique! I'll be back next week to give you a peek at my journal pages and hopefully some more Christmas inspiration.

Thank you for stopping by Frilly and Funkie today!
Hugs and Blessings!
Sara Emily

The following products were used and are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:




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Thursday, November 9, 2017

Guest Designer - Susanne Nordström

It is time to welcome a new Guest Designer to Frilly and Funkie.  Please say hello to Susanne Nordstrom whose blog is Susanne's Blogg.  Susanne was the Design Team's favourite for the Show Us Your Stamps challenge.


Hello everyone,  I'm so honored to be a guest designer here!

My name is Susanne and I'm from Sweden, where I live in a small town together with the love of my life, my husband Ola. We live in a self restored house from 1915.

I like photography, to craft, travel and physical exercise such as cross country skiing, inline skating and running. I started scrapbooking about 12 years ago, and then card making. Now I'm in to both of them and also some mixed media.


I have made a wall hanging for this theme, it measures about 5" x 7".

I started off with a cardboard background which I painted with a wash (paint and color) of DecoArt media fluid in Paynes Grey and added some salt to get some interest. After that I stamped the background with a Stampendous stamp, Andy Skinner's Industrial (Crackle pattern). Then I dry brushed the edges with DecoArt media fluid in Quinacridone Gold to get that rusty effect. I wanted it to look like an old rusty metal wall. I also made some holes in the background and dry brushed the edges of the holes.

The clock is a die from Sizzix, Tim Holtz, which I treated with DecoArt texture sand, and then used Andy Skinner's rust technique. (Instructions are available on DecoArt's website.)

The "ice" word is die cut in chipboard with a die from Sizzix, Tim Holtz "Wordplay". It was then painted with Weathered wood Distress paint, stamped over with a text stamp with Archival ink, and then I used Distress crayon in Rusty hinge on the edges.

The skates are also a die cut in chipboard from Sizzix, Tim Holtz movers and shapers skate die. It was painted with white acrylic paint, after that treated with Distress collage medium "crazing", then some Distress crayon in Vintage Photo. The skids are painted with Distress paint in Brushed Pewter, and then DecoArt Quinacridone gold.

The Tim Holtz Quote chip (winter wonderland) and the Flashcard (winter) are treated with Distress collage medium vintage, then when dry, with Distress collage crazing. On top of that some Distress crayon in Vintage Photo. The small words "My skates" are Tim Holtz label letters with some Distress ink in Walnut Stain, for an aged look.

The hinge is a die cut from a Sizzix Tim Holtz die, in grungeboard, also treated with Andy's rust technique, but without the texture sand paste, and fastened with Tim Holtz mini fasteners.


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If you want to get more details about Susanne's wonderful project and check our her other work, just pop on over to her blog. We hope when you are finished you will come on back and share your Timeworn project with us. The challenge runs until 11:55 pm EST on November 21st and can be found HERE.
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Friday, November 3, 2017

Friday Focus - Carabelle Studio (part two)

Hi everyone and welcome! Jenny here to shine a spotlight on the Carabelle Studio range available to purchase at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. Linda stocks a great range so it's been a real treat to create a number cards to inspire you. And with an extra 15% discount applied through November 9th now's the perfect opportunity for you to add to your own supplies.

In case you missed it the first set of cards were shared last Friday HERE. Today I'm sharing a couple more ideas and both of these have more of an industrial feel to them (click on any image to get a closer look);

Rather conveniently I had to make a card for a family birthday and had some fun with the 'I Heart Washi Tape' stamp set to make the background. The strips in this set give you the illusion of having applied tape and yet the ability to colour it your way. Just imagine using them in your journals!


The background was created by dipping a piece of Watercolor Paper into slightly diluted Frayed Burlap Distress Ink, then stamping the Washi Tape images over with Archival Ink. I then pressed a number of Distress Oxide Ink pads onto my craft mat and picked up the colour using a waterbrush, painting it over the tape images. To clean your waterbrush of the existing ink stroke it over some scrap paper rather than using dry paper towel in order to allow the water to continue to flow. I cut the 18 from spare card covered in metal foil (make life easier for yourself by using Metallic Kraft Card as I then did for the letters and outer border). The numbers were embossed with the Rouages embossing folder and all of the metal surfaces then aged with a little Black Soot Distress Paint.


When my Carabelle Studio stamps arrived this was the one I was most keen to play with and it surely didn't disappoint. Definitely a favourite for fans of steampunk, this quirky design can be used relatively simply, as I have done here, or in a more complicated way by stamping it onto different surfaces and paper-piecing it together. I can also imagine the fun possibilities for using embossing powders with it.


This one started much like the previous card by dipping a piece of Watercolor Paper into slightly diluted Frayed Burlap  and this time Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. I used the Stamp Platform to stamp the main image onto the card with Vintage Photo Distress Oxide Ink, leaving the stamp in place and cleaning away any remaining ink in readiness for the final layer. As I painted each section with different Distress Paints the Oxide ink melted into it and added easy shading. Once dry I  was able to re-stamp the image accurately over the previous layers with Archival Ink by putting the paper back into the Stamp Platform. The words in the stamp set made a great background image as well as a raised focal point, and more of that aged Metallic Kraft Card created the perfect border.


So that's two more ideas to tempt you. Catch up on the previous cards HERE and remember, all things Carabelle Studio have that extra 15% discount applied at The Funkie Junkie Boutique through November 9th.

Take care of yourselves and get creative!
Jenny

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Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Trick or Treat!

Hi! Suzz here. For our next challenge, I challenge you to create a vintage or shabby chic project with a trick or treat. If you are feeling funkie you might want to incorporate a trick in your design or if you are feeling frilly you can incorporate a treat. The trick or treat can be anything from a hidden pocket, unexpected design element, a treat hidden in a card or an unusual technique used on your project. Make sure to include in your blog post a description of your trick or treat!

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 we have some more wonderful projects to inspire your creativity:

Suzanne Czosek - Suzz's Stamping Spot

Sara Emily - sarascloset

Jenny Marples - Pushing The Right Buttons


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WEEK ONE

Now for some beautiful inspiration to get your creative juices flowing:

Kathy Clement - Kathy by Design

 Cec Wintonyk - CW Creations

Autumn - SewPaperPaint

Get out your inky supplies and come join us in the fun! 

Suzz


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