Wood You Dream?

Happy Saturday!  It's a beautiful day here in Gainesville, Florida!  The sun is shinning and it's going to the mid 70's today.  I'm planning to walk to the farmer's market in the little village center less than a mile from our new home and then maybe go for a nice long bike ride this afternoon.  I'm enjoying all the walking/biking trails in the area.

I've been super busy as usual.  Still trying to settle into the new place and working on decorating now.  Plus I've had lots of orders with the shop over the last couple of days.  So I'm running a little behind and have a late posting of my Saturday Our Creative Corner post.  Liliana is our host again this week and her challenge is "Woody with a Button".  We are to use some sort of wood, real, faux, stamped, embossed, etc.  I've had some real wood, thin bark-type strips that I have never used.  I was afraid to put it through my Cuttlebug as it was a bit thick and I didn't want to break it.  So I cut a piece of chipboard with the TH Baroque die, traced it onto the bark and then hand cut  it out.  That worked just fine.  I was afraid the bark might be very brittle and sort of fall apart, but it actually was quite tough and flexible.  The edges were sponged with Vintage Photo DI.

My main focal piece was stamped in Sepia archival with the Artistic Outpost Birds of a Feather bird, masked and then the text BG was stamped in Jet Black archival, the edges torn and sponged with Vintage Photo and Black Soot DIs.  Using a piece of Chocolate Chip CS, I stamped the little flourish stamp from Birds of a Feather around the outer edge and white embossed it, then scissor distressed the edges and sponged them with Vintage Photo.

The leaves are Ranger foil tape over card stock, cut with an old Sizzlet die, run through the Regal Flourish texture fade and painted with the Vintaj Weather Copper patina paints.  My flower is various fabrics cut with the Tattered Florals die, plus a bit of vintage crochet work and a rhinestone button from Melissa Frances.  The Dream stamp is from the Artistic Outpost Huck Finn set.

So that's it for my Our Creative Corner make for this week. Hope you will stop by and see what the rest of the team has to jumpstart your creativity for the weekend!  Thanks so much for stopping by and for all your lovely comments.  I so appreciate your encouragement and support!








All these crafty goodies can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Artistic Outpost Birds of a Feather Unmounted Rubber Stamps	Artistic Outpost Huck Finn Unmounted Rubber Stamps	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Black Soot	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Pad
Ranger Embossing Powder - Seafoam White	Ranger Archival Ink - Sepia	Ranger Archival Ink - Sepia Reinker	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Reinker
Ranger Inkssentials Foil Tape Sheets 6x12"	Ranger Inkssentials Foil Tape Sheets 4.25x5.5"	Ranger Vintaj Patina Kit - Weathered Copper	Tim Holtz Sizzix Texture Fades - Damask and Regal Flourishes Set	Sizzix Alternations Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Baroque Die
Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Die	Natural Jute Mesh (Burlap)	Melissa Frances Reproduction Glass Button Assortment