Spring Green with Pion Designs

I am very very late for the design team samples at this week's Our Creative Corner - my apologies to our hostess Marcy Kaminski and the entire team. It's been a very busy week for The Funkie Junkie with the launch of my new challenge blog Frilly and Funkie, the March release for Artistic Outpost and just general business with my boutique. Finally today I had a chance to finish up the card I started earlier for Marcy's How Green is Your Spring challenge over at Our Creative Corner.

Here's a pretty spring card that I made with the wonderful Pion Designs paper Fairytale of Spring that I am now carrying in my boutique. Love the shades of green which perfectly match Tim Holt's Bundled Sage pad and distress stain which I made liberal use of here. I cut the frame using two TH dies - Vintage Cabinet Card and the Movers and Shapers Mini Cabinet card. I embossed the CS layer of the frame with the Regal Flourishes texture fade and glued it to the frame. I colored the vanilla card stock with my Bundled Sage distress stain, dried it with my heat tool and then sponged the edges with Vintage Photo DI. Then I painted the entire frame with Clear Rock Candy Crackle Paint. LOVE the way it came out.

The flower was made al la Funkie Junkie out of crinoline and tulle, cut with the Tattered Florals and Mini Tattered Florals dies and dyed with Tattered Rose, my FAVORITE shade of pink! I colored a white resin flower with a Copic marker and it matched perfectly!  The leaves were cut with the Tattered Florals die but were a bit large so I cut them down a bit by hand (note to self: order Mini Tattered Florals die for boutique and one for me!)

If you pull the shabby seam binding bow, you will pull out a tag with a sentiment. The cabinet card die is so big for using on cards that there seems to be no room for a sentiment so I tucked in a hidden tag.

I thought this Tim Holtz/Stuff to Say sentiment was perfect, plus it fit the tag perfectly - LOL.  I stamped with with Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink and clear embossed it.  Then I inked the Fabulous Flourishes stamp up with Bundled Sage and then rocked it a bit on a Vintage Photo pad for a blended color effect, then sponged it with the two colors of distress inks.

How do you like these awesome filigree metal butterflies?  They are new in the boutique and I am just in love with them.  I have a few sets still available and all the filigree metals are 10% off this week through April 5th.  They are normally $3.79 for a set of four (one large/three small) but are on sale for $3.22.

Have you stopped by Our Creative Corner to see what the other designers have made?  Lots of luscious spring greens over there this week - definitely worth your time to check them out!



Products Used:

Rayon Seam Binding	http://www.etsy.com/listing/93162862/pion-designs-paper-fairytale-of-spring	Alterations Tattered Florals Die	Crinoline	Tattered Rose Distres Stain
Ranger Bundled Sage Distress Stain	Multi Medium Matte	Damask and Regal Flourishes Texture Fades	Alterations Vintage Cabinet Card Die	Alterations Tattered Leaves Die
Mini Cabinet Card Movers & Shapers	Vintage Photo Distress Ink	Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint	Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink

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