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Our Friday Focus products this week are Maja Design designer paper. All the fabulous Maja collections in stock are 15% off this week (through September 12th).   It was my turn to make a Friday Focus project and here is a teaser photo.  It's an accordion fold table decoration made with the absolutely GORGEOUS autumn collection Walking in the Forest.  Check out my post over at Frilly and Funkie for all the details or head over to The Funkie Junkie Boutique and purchase your Maja Design collections at 15% off.  

Crinoline Chrysanthemums

Happy Saturday friends!  Welcome to the weekend and to the weekly Our Creative Corner challenge.  I'm so glad you decided to visit me today.  I'm excited to share this fun card with you.  Marjie Kemper is the hostess this week at Our Creative Corner and she has a supply challenge for us.  Marjie says she likes supply challenges because it encourages her to use new and different supplies and I definitely agree!  Her supply challenge is transparencies.  What fun - I used transparencies (I usually call it acetate) and alcohol inks - a match made in heaven.  Just dot a bit of alcohol ink on a felt applicator and apply to the acetate.  It makes a really cool design.  I'm still in my fall kick and had to use the acetate to make some leaves (mine's from an upcycled package-I never throw that stuff out any more).  And then I decided to design one more fall crinoline flower so I chose a chrysanthemum in a wonderful rusty shade.

Here is the photo I used to design mine.

I was so happy with the way my crinoline one came out!  I'm also entering this card into two other challenges.  I used the sketch from Mojo Monday and the photo inspiration challenge from The Shabby Tea Room.

Just a few deets:  I heat embossed a flourish leaf pattern on the bottom panel on Really Rust CS and then sponged with Close to Cocoa ink.  The green dotted DP is digital from Raspberry Road, printed on my home printer and embossed with the Cuttlebug Morroccan Screen EF.  The sentiment is from Stampin' Up!  The rust colored burlap thread is from my Etsy shop and the stick pin is something I made, similar ones can be found in my Etsy shop.  If you just have to have that one, let me know - it can be arranged :)  The scallop die used for the top panel is from PaperTrey Ink.  If I missed anything and you have a question, just leave it in the comments or email me privately.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Your comments are so encouraging and I truly appreciate them!  I hope you will stop by Our Creative Corner to see what the rest of the team is up to.  Please go by their blogs and leave them some love too!  Have a wonderful weekend.

P. S.  I'm working on a papercrafting kit featuring my fall crinoline flowers - sunflower, marigold and chrysanthemum.  Check back here later today if you would like the details and to reserve one.  They should be ready to mail out mid week next week.

Other Challenges:
Charisma Cardz - In Stitches
Gingersnaps Spicy Supply Challenge - Alcohol Inks
PaperPals - Thanksgiving, Autumn, Halloween or Harvest theme
Stampin' for the Weekend - The Colors of Autumn

A Harvest of Gratitude

Good morning and happy weekend.  It's hard to believe that it is Saturday again.  Where did the week go?  And it's time once again for Saturday's Our Creative Corner challenge.  This week Lori Rider is our hostess again and she has a fall color challenge for us.

These are Stampin' Up! colors and if you don't have them, just get as close as you can to the color requirements.  I don't have Pool Party so I used the old Soft Sky and the only place I could work it in was for the stamping in the circle.  I also used this week's Mojo Monday sketch.

These are great fall colors and I felt like making a fall card, but when I sat down to get started, I found that what I really wanted to do was to make a Halloween card with orange and black.  Every idea I came up with required orange and black, nothing was coming to mind for these colors - no stamps, no vintage images, no embellishment ideas, nothing - yuck, my mojo was stuck.  It took me a lot longer than it should have to come up with this and I'm not thrilled with it. (Update:  After sitting here looking at it on my desk all day, I've decided that I do like it - it grew on me and I'm glad I plowed on through to the end.)  It's better than the first "draft" version which was without the buttons and the leaves.  The leaves helped pep it up a bit, but the down side was that they covered up that wonderful piece of burlap.

I used my Wendy Vecchi gingham stamp from Nature's Art (great set, it also has that wonderful Wendy butterfly) a lot on this card - obviously for the Really Rust gingham.  I also stamped the leaves with Old Olive and the gingham stamp plus the tiny leaf that I covered with Crystal Effects was also stamped with the W.V. gingham stamp.  Inks used are Chocolate Chip, Really Rust, Old Olive and Soft Sky.  The papers are all SU, the stamps are a mix of SU, Inkadinkado and Pink Paislee.  The crocheted lace, the burlap thread and the wide burlap are all from my Etsy shop.

That's pretty much it.  For a card that took 4 hours, I don't have a lot to say about it.  If you have any questions, please let me know.  And thanks so much for stopping by and for any comment you care to leave.  I hope you are planning to scurry on over to Our Creative Corner to enter your fall card with these colors on it.  There's lots of mojo floating around over there that you can grab too!


Other Challenges Entered:
The Stamp Man - Circle It
Sweet Stampin Challenge - In Stitches

Autumn Marigold

Happy Saturday ya'll.  I'm back this morning with a little make for Our Creative Corner.  I want to pull back a bit from my Christmas tags and focus on autumn today.  Today is officially World Card Making Day and our hostess, Lori Rider, has challenged us to make something that takes inspiration from a country other than our own.  I don't own many international stamps and although I could have gone in search of a vintage image for this project, I decided I wanted to stamp.  I did have a couple of French stamps, at least I think the script stamp is French.  And I did find a wonderful vintage French ledger page on the Graphics Fairy site.  I'm really in the autumn mood and wanted to do something with traditional fall colors so I used the ledger paper and went from there using the colors for this week's CR84FN challenge of yellow, orange and brown.

The marigold was made from crinoline cut with the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and three colors of distress ink:  Wild Honey, Dried Marigold and Rusty Hinge.  I dyed and layered the flower together and secured it with a pretty head pin and glass pearl.  The leaves are the Tattered Leaves die with a script stamp and a few colors of distress inks sponged on with a few flicks of water droplets for interest.  The butterflies were cut with an SU die and sponged with distres inks.  The green and craft  paper twist is from my Etsy shop - love that stuff.  Oh, and I did stamp a leafy flourish with an Inkadinkado stamp in Frayed Burlap with a bit of water misted on it.  The sentiment is from Verve.

That's it - short and sweet for this week.  Hope you like it and that it inspires you to join in our challenge this week at Our Creative Corner.  Stop by and see what the other designers have to inspire you too.










Other Challenges Entered:
Fashionable Stamping Challenge - Vintage
Artistic Stamper Creative Challenge - Autumn Colors
The Stamp Man - A Perfect Pear (mine's a perfect pair)

More Sunflowers!

Hello again,

I'm back with a second post of the day and my second sunflower card!  I have the honor of being the guest designer at Sugar Creek Hollow this week and the challenge there is Sunflowers.  Not a hardship for me because I LOVE sunflowers.  I made this card first and was on a roll with sunflowers and used that theme in my earlier post for Our Creative Corner.

For this card, I started with an outer shell of Garden Green, followed by a layer of brown polka dots by Pink Petticoat (more digital paper printed on my home printer).  The yellow gingham is a stamp by Wendy Vecchi which I think will be a go-to stamp frequently for me because I love all things gingham!  I overstamped it with an Artistic Outpost ledger stamp in Brushed Corduroy.  I ruched some brown gingham ribbon and ran it across the burlap strip and also rusted the filigree corner piece before adhering it with Claudine Helmuth Multi Medium Matte.  The post card was printed on my printer and I added the words "You are my sunshine" to it along with XOXO.  See the prior post about the crinoline sunflower.  

I had a little extra time so I went ahead and finished off the inside and made a gift box too.

I want to thank the design team over at Sugar Creek Hollow for choosing me as the guest designer this week.  They didn't have a sponsor lined up so I asked if my Etsy Boutique could sponsor their challenge and they agreed.  This is my very first advertising so we'll see how that goes!  And if you are interested, I made a little embellishment collection with some of the embellishments from the two sunflower cards.  I listed 5 sets, but if it is sold out, check back later because I will add more.  If you don't see it appear, email me at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com and I'll let you know the availability of additional collections.







Challenges Entered:
The Pixie Cottage - Mellow Yellow and/or Sketch
Truly Scrumptious - Decorate the Inside of Your Card

Wonderful Windows

Good Saturday morning my blogging friends!  Hope your weekend is off to a great start.  I'm feeling rather poorly myself, having come down with a cold/flu type of deal on Friday so I'm hoping to be able to squeeze in a bit of rest this weekend - amongst my crafting and ministry work at church.

Our challenge this week at Our Creative Corner was set by our hostess Holly and is called Wonderful Windows. Wooeee, this was a tough one for me!  I'm not too fond of window cards because they are so fussy and take so long to make, not to mention how tough they are to photograph! That said, I am very happy with the results of my labor.   As you can see, I wanted to work in some yellow crinkled seam binding, but there was no room for a large floppy bow so I ended up weaving it in and out of the filigree metal.  I like the way it looks!

Details for the front of the card - Chocolate Chip outer shell, then a layer of whisper white stamped in Ranger Archival Black with a Tim Holtz (Christmas) music stamp then sponged with Scattered Straw and Vintage Photo.  The checkered paper is from Raspberry Roads but I changed the color from light blue to the garden green shade I had in mind to go with the sunflowers.

The window was cut with a Spellbinders label die and I used the music stamp plus an Artistic Outpost postcard stamp on the inside.  My sunflower was cut from crinoline with the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and dyed with Summer Sun reinker.  The leaves were cut from canvas with the Tim Holtz Tattered Leaves die and dyed with Garden Green reinker.  The ledger paper is also (digital) from Raspberry Road.  

I made up a little embellishment kit with the crinoline sunflowers and am offering it in my Etsy boutique.  I listed 5 but if they are sold out, come back later and I'll list more.  If you don't see them listed and are interested, email me at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com and I'll let you know the availability of additional kits.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Hope you have a great weekend.

Challenges Entered:

Crafts and Me - Buttons and Bows

The Pixie Cottage - Mellow Yellow and/or Sketch

Truly Scrumptious - Decorate the Inside of Your Card

Challenge: 12 Tags of Christmas - Funkie Junkie Style

While I was working on my Christmas tag triptych last week I decided I wanted to go ahead and make it a 12 tag project.  It occurred to me that this would be an opportunity to have some fun and also to get to know some of my readers.  So I have cooked up this 12 week challenge and invite everyone to play along. Here are the deets (rules, if you will):

• This is an inspiration challenge.  Each week, I will post my tag and you will use it to be inspired to make something.  You can enter any sort of craft.  It can be a tag, a card, a home decor project, a scrapbook layout - your choice.  
• You must take inspiration from something on my tag and tell us in your post what inspired you.  You don't have to use my style, my layout, my colors, my theme or anything except be inspired by something on my sample.  Your make can be shabby, it can be grungy or it can be clean and simple.  I don't mind if you CASE my work, but if you do, please give me credit.  
• We will have 12 weekly challenges beginning today, Wednesday, September 7th.  You can link your project using the linky provided.  If you don't have a blog, you can use another hosting site such as SplitCoast Stampers or PhotoBucket, but you must link back to this challenge and tell us what inspired you.   Be sure to mention this challenge in your blog post, tell us what inspired you and provide a link to the weekly challenge.
• All 12 challenges will remain open until December 15th.  You can play any challenge up through that date.  At the end, I will do a drawing for a random grand prize winner.  To be eligible to win, you must have submitted an entry into all 12 weeks of this challenge by midnight Eastern Time December 15th.  The prize will be the winner's choice of one of my art pieces/cards or a $25 shopping spree in my Etsy Shop.  

Please let me know if you have any questions.  I hope you will join in the fun.  Can't wait to see what you make.