Challenge: 12 Tags of Christmas - Funkie Junkie Style - Week #6

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Hello and welcome!  I'm back with my Week #6 tag.  Today is November 2nd and we are officially on the downward plunge to Christmas....Tag #6 marks the half way point in our 12 Tags Challenge.  If you haven't started to play along, no worries.  There is still plenty of time.  You can complete the tags in any order any time up to the close of the challenge on December 20th.  You can get the full challenge details on the Tag #1 post.

My #6 tag is very simple and vintage-y.  I started, as I always do, with one of my favorite jumbo manila tags that I sell in the shop and stenciled laurels top and bottom with the Wendy Vecchi Stamp It Stencil It For the Holidays set.  Pine Needles DI and a Mini Ink Blending Tool were used for the stenciling.  Next the new text stamp from Wendy Vecchi was stamped in Jet Black Archival ink.  Holly leaves were die cut and stamped in Pine Needles with Wendy Vecchi's Ornate Dots background stamp.  Instead of cleaning the stamp, I spritzed water on it and watched the watery color bubble up.  I grabbed the tag and used the water stamping technique to add another layer to my background.  Instead of making the holly berries the traditional red, I matched the hues in the ribbon by using Victorian Velvet.  They also have a dusting of Clear Rock Candy distress glitter.  The cluster was mounted on a small piece of corrugated cardboard that was edged with Vintage Photo DI and had a bit of White Gesso rubbed on the ridges.  Merry Christmas was stenciled above in Pine Needles.

A stamp from Wendy Vecchi's Holiday Art set was used for the evergreen tree with Pine Needles DI.  Going for a splatter look, I used Picket Fence distress spray stain.

I wanted a little texture along the edges.  I achieved that by applying Ultra Thick Embossing enamel randomly along the edges.  A bit more Vintage Photo DI was blended along the edges and then just a touch of Ground Espresso was applied along the very edge.  To finish it off, I added a laser cut wooden snowflake from Kaisercraft and a polymer clay gingerbread heart tied with a scrap of plaid ribbon.

That's it, folks.  Tag #6 for your inspiration.  I hope you can find something about it that will get your creative juices flowing.  Thanks so much for visiting, for commenting and special thanks for those of you playing along with me this year!









The products below were used to make the above tag.  They are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique where Tim Holts and Wendy Vecchio products are always 20% below MSRP.

50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stamps - Vintage Text Background Stamp	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Reinker
Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Pad #3	Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Pine Needles	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Pine Needles	Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stamps - Ornate Dots Background Stamp	For The Holidays Stamp It Stencil It from Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi
Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stamps - Holiday Art	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Picket Fence	Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Tim Holtz Ground Espresso Distress Ink Pad
Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Victorian Velvet	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Victorian Velvet	Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Clear Rock Candy	Corrugated Cardboard (6 sheets)	Corrugated Cardboard - Mixed White and Kraft - 6 Sheets
Polymer Clay Pendants Christmas Gingerbread Heart	May Arts 1.5 Inch Burgundy / Ivory Plaid (Wired) Ribbon

An InLinkz Link-up

Flash Sale on Recent Tim Holtz and Brett Weldele Stamp Set Releases

Greetings!  I just wanted to share a flash sale going on this week at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.  We are little overstocked on a few of the new release stamp sets so I thought I'd offer a little discount.  Sorry, the links on the graphic don't work, but if you just click the graphic it will take you to the Flash Sale tab in the store.

If you are not on the shop's mailing list and would like to get our newsletter with updates on new products in stock, special deals and sales, please email me at linda@thefunkiejunkie.com and I'll add your email to our mailing list.

We also have most of the Tim Holtz Idea-ology Yuletide collection still in stock, but the products are going fast.  When they're sold out, that's it.  If you haven't already scooped up what you need for your Christmas crafting, you better hurry!  We also have the most recent releases of Wendy Vecchi and the Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations dies in stock.  The Halloween dies have been discounted right now too.

Happy shopping!

A Little Halloween Fun

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It's rare these days for me to get two posts up in one week but I couldn't let the Halloween challenge over at Frilly and Funkie go by without trying to do something for Halloween.  It's one of my favorite crafting seasons and there are a scant few days left to get crafty with it.  Shelly Hickox is hosting the challenge this time around and she was us to create Something Wicked.  That can be a Halloween themed piece or not.

I chose a Halloween theme because there are so many wonderful craft products with Halloween themes, many of which are stocked at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.  I started with a piece of corrugated cardboard and used a Black Soot Distress Paint dabber to blacken the high points and the edges of the cardboard.  That became my base for this product.  I backed it up with chipboard as the corrugated cardboard I sell in the shop is quite flexible.  Using the new Impression Obsession Spider Web Background die, a black spider web was cut.  The web was mounted on a pice of black CS that was streaked with Carved Pumpkin distress paint.

Next three layers of chipboard were cut with the Postage Stamp Movers and Shapers die.  I used a Sized Rectangle die in the center to cut a window in the postage stamp.  I glued all three layers together and painted it black with Black Soot Distress Paint.  When the paint was dry, I heat embossed it with Wendy Vecchi's Fern Green embossing powered.  Before heating it, I rubbed a bit of the powder off here and there so it would look worn.  Gray card stock and the One the Edge Graveyard die produced the strip of headstones.  I used this year's Halloween Remnant Rubs - Curiosities - to create a little interest on the headstones.

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The tree was cut with the old favorite standby die - Branch Tree - from black CS, mounted on another die cut tree, this time in brown craft foam to pop it up.  I lightly rubbed Inka Gold Old Silver over the tree with my finger to give it just a tad of color and make it glow.  The spider and skeleton charms are from my shop and started as silver tone but were altered with Pitch Black alcohol ink. I wanted the skeleton to be more white than silver so I rubbed on a dab of white gesso with my finger.

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The sentiment plate was cut with an old Spellbinders die from a scrap of the black/Carved Pumpkin card stock that i had mounted the spider web die cut onto.  The text Halloween is a rub on from the Curiosities pack.  The skulls are beads that I sell in the shop.  I inserted half of a toothpick into the bottom and then slid it into the gap from the corrugated.

So glad I got a little Halloween crafting in under the wire this year!  Thanks so much for stopping by. Wishing you a ghoulish Halloween!








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

Corrugated Cardboard (6 sheets)	Corrugated Cardboard - Mixed White and Kraft - 6 Sheets	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Black Soot	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paint - Carved Pumpkin	Impression Obsession - Spider Web Background Die
Tim Holtz Postage Stamp Frame Sizzix Alterations Movers and Shapers Die	Tim Holtz Sized Rectangles Sizzix Alterations Movers and Shapers Dies	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Embossing Powder - Fern Green	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Pad	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Reinker
Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Branch Tree BIGz Die	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Remnant Rubs Curiosities	Viva Decor Inka Gold Old Silver	Charm Pendant - Set of 5 Silvertone Skeletons	Dina Wakley Media Mediums - White Gesso
Charm Pendant - Set of 5 Silverstone Spiders	Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Pitch Black	Rayon Seam Binding	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Black Soot	Ranger Tim Holtz Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Stain - Carved Pumpkin
Synthetic White Howlite Loose Skull Beads - Set of 12