Spring Birthday

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Hello and thanks for dropping by.  I'm just sharing a little tag I have for the first week of a new Frilly and Funkie challenge.  Sue Carrington is our lovely hostess this fortnight and she is all about stencils.  Which is great because so am I!  Stencils are all the rage and I can hardly make anything at all without grabbing a stencil or two to create a pattern or a texture on my make.  This week I decided to use a stencil with both ink and embossing paste.

First I grabbed one of the jumbo manila tags that I sell in the shop and am so addicted to.  Using Peacock Feathers DI and a mini ink blending tool, I applied the ink through the stencil on the bottom half of the tag.  Then I misted the ink that was left on the stencil and applied it to the top part of the tag for a mono print.  Love the way it looks with the positive and negative images.  I thought it needed a little texture so I added some white Wendy Vecchi embossing paste through the same stencil on the bottom right corner of the tag.  When it was good and dry, I applied Inka Gold Old Silver with a tiny paint brush.  You should use your finger and sometimes I do, but  I really wanted a delicate look and wanted to make sure I only got it on the raised embossing paste.  I also used the Inka Gold Old Silver on the Spellbinders die cut in the upper left corner.  It was cut from white CS and the Inka gold was applied with my finger.  I glued it down with Multi Medium Matte.

My floral bouquet was made by cutting white CS with the Tattered Flowers decorative strip die and staining them with Shaded Lilac.  I scrunched them around the end of a paintbrush when wet and let them dry in that shape.  Once dry, I opened them very carefully and sponged the endues with Vintage Photo DI.  The leaves were also cut with the same strip die, stained with Bundled Sage, edged with Vintage Photo ann then Inka Gold Old Silver was applied dry brush style.

My sentiment was stamped from Tim's Simple Sayings set using Peacock Feathers DI.  My little banners were cut with the Ribbon Flags decorative strip die from white CS, sponged with Antique linen and a bit of Vintage photo and kissed with Wendy Vecchi's Script background stamp.  Then I stamped Happy Birthday using Peacock Feathers and dipped it into clear embossing powder which stick randomly as some of the ink had dried (which was my intent).

The tag was topped with a triple loop bow made with seam binding and stained with Shaded Lilac distress stain.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog!  All my cards and other art pieces are for sale starting at $7.50 which includes shipping to USA addresses.  International - contact me for a shipping price to your country.  I need to move some of these pieces out of my craft room and into a good home!  If you are interested, email me at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com.

Be sure to pop over to Frilly and Funkie to see what our amazing frilly girls have to inspire you.   I hope you will play along by making a vintage style creation using a stencil and linking up to our Frilly and Funkie challenge. Two awards will be given out - one is a badge to the judged winner who will also join us as a guest designer in an upcoming challenge and the other is a $25 gift certificate to shop at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

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

50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Peacock Feathers	Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Peacock Feathers	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo
Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Antique Linen	Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Antique Linen	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Shaded Lilac	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - White
Viva Decor Inka Gold Old Silver	Spellbinders® Garden Weave	Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Tattered Flowers Die	Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Ribbon Flags	Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stamps - Script Background Stamp
Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Simple Sayings	Ranger Embossing Powder - Clear	Rayon Seam Binding