Harvest Blessings - What a Mesh Challenge at Frilly and Funkie

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Hello and welcome back.  I'll bet that after a six month absence from posting, you are getting sick of me now that I'm posting a couple of times a week - LOL.  I know I feel like I'm really having a lot of blog activity!  Anyway, I'm filling in again over at Frilly and Funkie, this time on the Frilly side of the team.  Pamellia Johnson is our hostess for this fortnight and her challenge is called What a Mesh. Pamela wants us to use any type of mesh (crinoline, cheesecloth, tulle, burlap, canvas etc) in our vintage or shabby chic project.

Here is my shabby chic project using crinoline for my flowers.  I started this project with a half sheet of Specialty Stamping Paper and applied Frayed Burlap Distress Stain direct to paper with the dabber top.  When dry, clear embossing powder was applied with Versamark through an old Prima stencil and heated on.  I also stamped the city stamp from the old Papillon stamp set in Versamark and clear embossed.  Next I painted on a wash of watered down gesso and dried it with my heat tool.  It seemed a little too brown for my concept for this project so I dabbed on some Faded Corduroy distress stain.  All the working and reworking created an awesome textured background.  I love the way it came out.

Sorry, this was a quick snapshot taken with my phone while creating.  Double click to zoom for details.  

I already had this piece of corrugated cardboard on my work table with the edges inked and a bit of gold embossing powder around the edges too.  It made a great bottom panel for my image piece.  I stamped the gingham with a Wendy Vecchi stamp and her Orange Blossom archival ink.  Then I added some script stamping with another Wendy Vecchi stamp using her Potting Soil archival ink.  I found the cute vintage seed package graphic on the Internet that fit the theme and color palette perfectly.

I have a stash of die cut and dyed crinoline flower layers so I dug through and found some lovely fall colors and assembled the layers.  I believe the main one was dyed with Dried Marigold and the yellow was dyed with a  Stamping' Up reinker.  The large flower pieces were cut with the Tattered Florals die and the small yellow dandelion looking flowers were cut with an ancient Cuttlebug die (probably one of the very first I ever bought - LOL!).  And, BTW, we do have some crinoline for sale at The Funkie Junkie Boutique in case you can't find it at your local fabric store.

I also have a stash of pre-cut and colored leaves left over from prior years' projects.  These were cut with both the Tattered Leaves Bigz die as well as the Fall Foliage Things die that came out last year.  The seam binding was also floating around on my table, having been dyed several weeks ago when I did a batch dyed with Tarnished Brass Distress Spray, but not full strength.  It was watered down so this is a more mellow yellow gold color.

Next I searched for a sentiment to tie everything together and ended up using an old Tim Holtz Texture Fade.  I don't even remember what it is called but it is the one with all the fall/Thanksgiving words on it.  I embossed the two works on kraft CS and sponged it with Rusty Hinge DI, then dried it well with my heat tool.  Rubbing glue stick over the embossed letters, I then applied Prima gold foil.

Those are the details for my Harvest Blessings project.  The finished size is 5x7".  It was backed up on chipboard and then I cut an easel and affixed it to the back so it would be free standing.  

I hope you will play along with us over at Frilly and Funkie this week.  For each challenge we have a judged contest with the top pick plus 3 runners up who get a blog badge for their win plus we randomly draw for a $25 gift certificate to shop at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.  Plus our top pick is invited to b a guest designer for an upcoming project.

The project above used the products shown here.  They are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique where Ranger/Tim Holtz/Wendy Vecchi and most other name brand products are always 20% below list.

Ranger Inkssentials Specialty Stamping Paper 8.5 X 11	VersaMark Watermark Ink Stamp Pad	VersaMark Watermark Ink Refill	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool - With 4 Blending Foams	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foam
Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Papillon	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Brushed Corduroy	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Frayed Burlap	Dina Wakley Media Mediums - White Gesso	Ranger Embossing Powder - Clear
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink - Orange Blossom	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Reinker - Orange Blossom	Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stamps - Nature′s Art	Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stamps - Script Background Stamp	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink - Potting Soil
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Reinker - Potting Soil	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Die	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Dried Marigold	Cotton Crinoline	Crinoline and Rayon Seam Binding Set
Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Tattered Leaves Die	Sizzix® Thinlits Die Set 14PK - Fall Foliage by Tim Holtz	Rayon Seam Binding	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Tarnished Brass	Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Rusty Hinge
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Rusty Hinge	Prima Marketing Rub-On Foil Sheets - Shine On 585600