Sunny Seaside

Hello and welcome!  I know I've been missing in action around blogland recently.  My life is a scramble trying to keep up with everything happening at the boutique, my design team commitments and my personal life.  Whew, some days I don't know which end is up!  I was skeptical about getting a piece made for the Funkie week of the Vintage Seaside challenge at Frilly and Funkie.  I totally missed contributing anything to the team last week so I really needed to produce a piece for this week.  I was pretty stressed about the situation and feeling totally devoid of mojo with no idea of what to make for this week.  Finally in frustration, I just went into my craft room and sat down at my desk, pulled out a tag and started to play around.  This was the outcome - sort of fun and whimsical with lots of colors.

I started with a jumbo manila tag and the Tim Holtz bubble stencil.  Picket Fence distress paint was stenciled on and dried.  Then I sprayed it with a mix of Peacock Feathers and a dash of Evergreen Bough distress stains, followed by a very quick light mist of Vintage Photo (stains were transferred into Mini Misters for this step).  Then the edges were inked with Vintage Photo DI.

The beach houses were stamped on book paper using Jet Black archival and then stained with Squeezed Lemonade, Picked Raspberry and Mowed Lawn.

The Chevron Frameworks die was used to cut gray chipboard which was painted white with Picket Fence Distress Paint.  I thought it made a cute be achy fence.  Then I hung bronze sea inspired charms along my fence. When we are at the seaside, I always see fences with ocean/beach inspired objects hanging on them so I did the same my charms and my fence :)

The flower is just two layers of card stock, the smaller one was cut with the Jumbo Tattered Florals die and the larger one was cut with  the Tattered Florals die.  Both were stained with Squeezed Lemonade stain, crumpled, dried, spritzed with Biscotti Perfect Pearls and dried again.  And, of course, I inked the edges with Vintage Photo.  The pretty turquoise gem center for the flower is from my boutique.

I created a couple of bunches of sea oats using unraveled burlap fibers.  The sentiment was stamped with Jet Black archival and the banners were hand cut.  A bronze angel fish finished it off.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you will run over to Frilly and Funkie.  The team has some great eye candy plus Donna Gibson is back for a quick guest design week.  She has contributed an awesome vintage beach piece!









The products below were used to make the tag above and area available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique where Ranger/Tim Holtz and most other name brand products are always 20% below MSRP.

25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Bubble	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Picket Fence	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Peacock Feathers
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Evergreen Bough	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Vintage Photo	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Pad #3	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Mowed Lawn
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Picked Raspberry	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Squeezed Lemonade	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Die	PRE-ORDER Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Jumbo Tattered Florals Bigz XL	Ranger Perfect Pearls Mists - Biscotti
10 Piece Clear Blue Resin Rhinestone Embellishments	Natural Jute Mesh (Burlap)	*Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations Frameworks Die - Chevron	Seaside Charm Set - Antiqued Bronze Charms for Jewelry Making, Scrapbooking and Mixed Media