Cracked Pistachio Snowflake

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Hello!  I'm back after an exciting few days of travel out to Anaheim for the Craft and Hobby Association's annual MegaShow.  It's the time when most of the hobby industry launches their new products.  It's such an exciting time for we hobby enthusiasts!  I had a fantastic time, took classes with Tim Holtz, Dyan Reaveley, Tammy Tutterow and also I was totally thrilled to be able to meet and take classes with Marjie Kemper!   And I got to rub elbows again with my friend Wendy Vecchi.  Plus I got to meet some on-line friends including Candy Colwell, Linda Ledbetter and most of her Curiosity Crew - Cheryl Grigsby, Yvonne Blair, Annette Green, Susan Mostek,   I got introduced to Sherry Cheever whom I have long followed and admired and ran into my former DT mate from our time at Simon Says Stamp and Show Lynn Forsythe!  Holy moly, what a fantastic line up, huh?

Okay, more about CHA later, let's get on with the business at hand - this week's kick off for the new Frilly and Funkie challenge.  Nancy Dynes is hosting this fortnight and Nancy is challenging us to create a vintage project depicting what we "love" about winter.  I think there was a collective groan from the design team when we read that challenge, comments such as "I don't like ANYTHING about winter" ensued.  But as a Florida resident, I can say that I LOVE winter.  Most days are from 50 to 70 with temperatures at night from 60 to 30 usually just enough cold to give a little bit and snap to the air - such a relief from the sweltering summers  I do love winter crafting, especially playing with die cut snowflakes so that's the direction I took with my project.  I love the icy beauty our new DT member Pamellia is creating lately so I sort of channelled her when making this project.  She does amazing work with her homemade texture paste and glitter.   I used Tim Holtz's texture paste and a combination of chunky glitter from Jo-Ann mixed in with Clear Rock Candy distress glitter.  

I started with a 5x7 piece of gray chipboard and gave it a coat of gesso.  Then I got out the yummy new Cracked Pistachio distress spray.  We all received the complete set in Tim's class (pre-order your bundle at 25% off MSRP today - click here).  Tim coached us to combine it with Pumice Stone for a fabulous vintage effect.  I sprayed a couple of sprays of Cracked Pistachio and a couple of sprays of Pumice Stone over the dried gesso and let them blend and run.  It was a bit dark so I gave it a couple of shots of Brushed Pewter and Picket Fence, letting all the colors blend and run again.  There wasn't much Cracked Pistachio showing so I gave it a final very light mist of Cracked Pistachio again and dried it all with my heat tool.  

Once dry, I added a layer of Tim's texture paste through a Prima Stencil and sprinkled on the glitter.  It stuck all over, even to the dried distress stains.  But it didn't stick real well because it continued to flake off as I worked on it.  It did stay on the texture paste.  

Most of the classes I took at CHA were heavy on the use of rub-ons so I have developed a real love for them, as well as Tim's new rub on tool - very cool (I have ordered 30 for the shop and they should be here in a few weeks).  Going with my love of snowflakes, I cut one from chipboard and one from acrylic packaging with the Stacked Snowflake die.  The chipboard snowflake was painted white with Picket Fence Distress Paint, edged with Cracked Pistachio and had Remnant Rubs applied.  The clear acrylic one was sprayed with Brushed Pewter distress spray stain and set aside to air dry.  A resin flower was painted with Brushed Pewter distress paint and used to top off my stacked snowflake.  The Thinlits Holiday Words Script die was used to create the sentiment, cut from white CS and colored with Brushed Pewter Distress Stain.  

My crinkled seam binding was colored with distress sprays - Cracked Pistachio and Pumice Stone.  The pin and snowflake are from my boutique.  The snowflake was colored with Cracked Pistachio distress paint which was sanded off the high points.  Tim shared that Mushroom Alcohol ink works terrific for lending a nice vintage tint to many products.  It was applied lightly over the distress paint on the snowflake for a nice vintage feel.  

Thanks so much for stopping by today.   And thank you for your comments too!  I hope you still stop by Frilly and Funkie to see what the Frilly side of our team has been up to.  You don't be sorry that you did!

These products were used to make the project above and can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique, where Tim Holtz/Ranger and most other name brand products are always 20% below MSRP.

Dina Wakley Media Mediums - White Gesso	Ranger Tim Holtz Cracked Pistachio Distress Bundle	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Pumice Stone	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Brushed Pewter	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Picket Fence
Ranger Texture Paste	Prima 6x6" Stencil - Decor 1	Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Clear Rock Candy	Sizzix Alternations Tim Holtz Stacked Snowflakes Bigz L Die	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Picket Fence White
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Remnant Rubs Words	Sizzix Alternations Tim Holtz Thinlits Dies - Holiday Words: Script	Pink Resin Flower Embellishments - 1/2""	Pink Resin Flower Embellishments - 3/4"	Pack of Perfect Pins - 3/4" Mini Safety Pins
Antiqued Silver Snowflake Charms - Set of 6	Antiqued Silver Tone Snowflake Charms - Set of 6	Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Mushroom

January Tim Tag

Hello!  Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I have my Funkie contribution to the Frilly and Funkie challenge Anything Goes.  I am kicking off the year with a determination to play in all of Tim Holtz's monthly challenges this year!  You would think that with a whole month make something that I should be able to join in each month, but I only made four or five monthly challenges in 2014. Since our theme this time at Frilly and Funkie is Anything Goes, I decided to combine my DT piece with Tim's January tag.

I have virtually all the products that Tim used on his tag, but rather than just copy his tag, I prefer to be inspired by his sample and make something of my own design.

I do try to stick with his techniques and this time started with tissue wrap and Glue 'n Seal I had to go a step further and added some white texture paste through the Clockwork stencil.  When dry, I smeared Weathered Wood distress paint over the surfaces.  Two things I can't resist adding these days are texture or embossing paste and distress spray stains!  So I followed up on the distress paint with a couple of spritzes of Vintage Photo spray stain, adding a couple more spritzes of water to make it react and run - love the way it settles into the crevices!

Instead of Alpha Parts, using the Artful Arrows Bigz die, I cut chipboard and painted it with Black Soot distress paint.  When I paint chipboard I like to take a paintbrush and go along the edges and get into all the nooks and crannies so no gray shows.  Once the paint was dry, I gave each piece two coats of Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (UTEE) and voilà!   It looks like black plastic Alpha Parts.  I started to add Tarnished Brass distress paint like Tim did, but the color clashed badly with my base colors so I wiped it off before it dried and went with Brushed Pewter, using the same method as Tim.

Chipboard was cut with the Word Play die, colored with Brushed Pewter stain and then Pumice Stone distress glitter was applied.  Rather than use Chit Chat stickers, I chose to leave my piece less cluttered and made two simple sentiment labels using the Labels Thinlits dies and the #hashtags stamp set.  It was finished off by flicking a little Picket Fence distress stain all over it with a paint brush.

This was a lot of fun.  I have another idea for a similar tag, but a frilly approach.  Unfortunately I didn't get it made this week.  I've been pounding away at my keyboard trying to get pre-order listings created in the shop for all the new products that are being revealed this week.  On Thursday, I'm off to my very first CHA - yay!  I'm so excited.  Stay tuned as I will try to post some photos of my trip.  In the meantime, I ope you will join us over at Frilly and Funkie for our Anything Goes challenge.  Just make a vintage piece, either filly or funkie and link it up.  You could be our next guest designer or even win a $25 shopping spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique!








The products below were used to cease the above tag.  They are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique where Rnager/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 - Postale	Tim Holtz idea-ology Tissue Wrap - Melange	Ranger Glue n’ Seal Matte 1 oz.
Ranger Glue n’ Seal Matte 3.5 oz.	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Weathered Wood	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Clockwork	Ranger Texture Paste	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Vintage Photo
*Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations Artful Arrows Bigz Die	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Black Soot	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Pad	Ranger Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (UTEE)	Ranger Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (UTEE) 8 oz. Clear
Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents	Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Pumice Stone	Tim Holtz Ranger Metallic Distress Stain - Brushed Pewter	PRE-ORDER Tim Holtz Ranger Metallic Distress Paint - Brushed Pewter	Sizzix Alternations Tim Holtz Thinlits Dies - Labels
$23.95 Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Hashtags	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Pad #3	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Weathered Wood	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo
Ranger ADHESIVE - WHITE FOAM ROLL 1/2" X 1/16"x 2.1 YDS.