No Stamping Here!

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Hello friends!  I'm back.  Did you miss me?  I certainly missed you.  Whew, what a crazy summer I have had.  I hope your summer has been great with wonderful family memories, terrific weather and lots of relaxation time with maybe even a vacation thrown in!  My little boutique is growing by leaps and bounds and it has kept me running all summer, especially when I tried to squeeze in a vacation or two :)  But this week, it feels like we are starting to get things under control and I actually had a couple of hours that I was able to spend in my craft room.  

I'm jumping back in with my design team over at Frilly and Funkie for Pamellia's Stamps Be Gone! challenge.  The challenge theme is no stamping allowed.  That's right - no rubber stamping allowed for this challenge.  And I must say with all the amazing products available it's no challenge at all to create a beautiful piece of mixed media art or a card without using a single rubber stamp.  

I know you are probably thinking "well, she stamped there and again there and isn''t that stamped too?"  Nope!  Let me tell you what I did.  First I started with a jumbo manila tag that I sell in my boutique and cut a piece of Melange Tissue Wrap the size of the tag.  Using Ranger's Multi Medium Matte, I brushed on a layer and adhered the tissue wrap to it.  I peeled off the loose edges of the tissue wrap to create a jagged edge.  Using Wendy Vecchi's Crackled embossing paste, I laid down a layer over Tim's Woodgrain stencil.  When dry, I sprayed it with Spiced Marmalade distress spray, Adirondack Color Wash - Meadow and Perfect Pearls Heirloom Gold.  Then I lightly bruised the edges of the tag and went over the embossing paste with Vintage Photo DI. Love the color and sheen I achieved but some of the embossing paste flaked off.  Wendy's Crackled embossing paste really needs to be laid down over a substrate of another paste.  But I didn't want to obscure the tissue wrap.  

The vintage card is one we printed at the shop and inserted into one of our fall thank you gifts.  We haven't started including them in our shipments yet so if you order over the next month, you might receive one of these (along with a charm and other goodies to create a fall project).  

I got out my Special Delivery Remnant Rubs (rub-ons) and applied the "Handle With Care", the printing on the vintage card and a little "air mail" rub-on at the top.  Beware, the remnant rubs do not go on well over top of distress ink.  It takes a lot of rubbing and then easing off the top acetate very slowly to make sure it is releasing.  If not, put the acetate back down and rub some more.  Tim's awesome Remnant Rub tool makes the rubbing on much easier!

Using my Friendship Words: Script Thinlits die set, I cut 'Wonderful Moments' out of brown kraft core CS and sanded it to reveal the kraft core.  To finish off the message, I added a sticker from the Small Talk pack which was sponged with Vintage Photo DI.  

Next I raided the store shelves and snatched a Fall Foliage Thinlits die set for myself.  I'm a huge lover of leaf dies and this is the best so far - 14 different shapes and sizes of leaves  -yay!!  I sprayed a piece of white CS with the three sprays I used on the tag, dried it what my heat tool and then cut out leaves.  I sponged the edges of the cut leaves with Vintage Photo DI and crumpled them up a bit.  Using the Tiny Tattered Florals dies, I cut three sizes of mini roses, dabbed them with Scattered Straw distress stain and edged them with Vintage Photo DI.  It was topped off with a scrunched seam binding triple bow that was dyed with Scattered Straw distress stain.  

That's it for this week.  Thanks for stopping by and helping me to get back into the groove.  Please do stop by Frilly and Funkie.  It's the first week of our challenge so it's the week that the Frilly team posts their incredible projects.  Hope you will play along with us too.  Remember no stamping allowed!

The products below were used to create this project.  They are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique were Ranger/Tim Holtz 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	Tim Holtz idea-ology Tissue Wrap - Melange	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - Crackle	Ranger Perfect Pearls Mists - Heirloom Gold
Ranger Multi Medium Matte 4 oz.	Ranger Multi Medium Matte 1/2 oz.	Ranger Multi Medium Matte 1 oz.	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Woodgrain	Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool - With 4 Blending Foams	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foam	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Remnant Rubs Special Delivery	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Remnant Rub Tool
SSizzix® Thinlits™ Die Set 16PK - Friendship Words: Script by Tim Holtz®	Sizzix® Thinlits™ Die Set 15PK - Tiny Tattered Florals by Tim Holtz®	Sizzix® Thinlits Die Set 14PK - Fall Foliage by Tim Holtz	$6.39 Core′dinations Kraft Core By Tim Holtz - 2.5x12" Strips	$11.99 Core′dinations Kraft Core By Tim Holtz - Shattered Collection 12 x 12
Tim Holtz Ranger Idea-ology Sanding Grip	Tim Holtz idea-ology Refill Pack for Sanding Grip (4 sheets)	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Small Talk	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Scattered Straw	Rayon Seam Binding