Summer Sunshine

Hello again,

I'm here today with my weekly sample for Frilly and Funkie.  We are kicking off the Frilly week with a new challenge from Sue Carrington.  Sue's challenge theme is Summer Heat and she wants us to create something with warm colors such as red, orange and sunshine yellow.  As an added twist, we need to include a summer bloom on our project.  

I started my card with a sheet of Tim Holtz patterned paper from the Wildflower collection.   I wanted something with a bright yellow, but also vintage and shabby too.  I created a little flower patch by cutting white CS with the Tattered Flowers decorative strip die and staining them with Mustard Seed distress stain.  While they were wet, I crumpled them and dried them crumpled with my heat tool.  Once unfurled, they were edged with Vintage Photo DI.  I scrounged around in my stash and came up with three different small bronze flowers that I used for the centers.  The cheese cloth was spritzed with Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls mist, but I had so much Mustard Seed stain on my fingers that it took on a greenish-yellow cast.  I actually really like the way it came out - a happy accident.  

The Writing Desk die was used to cut the feather out of white CS and then was stenciled using the Tim Holtz Latticework stencil with Mustard Seed and edged with Vintage Photo.  A piece of white CS was used to mat the top layer.  It was also stenciled with the Latticework stencil and Mustard Seed, then edged with a bit of Frayed Burlap.  I broke out a Hash Tags stamp set for to have for myself.  I didn't think I would really like it at first, but I've been seeing it used and decided that I really do like the set.  

And there you have it.  A fairly quick and easy card - only took me about two hours.  Using the patterned paper made the whole thing come together pretty quickly.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you will also stop over at Frilly and Funkie and maybe even visit our designers' blogs and leave them some love!

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

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paper Stash Wildflower	Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Tattered Flowers Die	Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations Writing Desk Bigz Die	$23.95 Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Hashtags	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Pad #3
Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Reinker	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Die - Mini Butterflies	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Mustard Seed	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Mustard Seed
Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool - With 4 Blending Foams	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foam	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Frayed Burlap	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Minis - Kit #1
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Minis - Bundle Kits 1, 2 & 3	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Minis - Kit #9	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Minis - Bundle Kits 7, 8 & 9	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Mini Paper Clips