Challenge: 12 Tags of Christmas - Funkie Junkie Style - Week #7

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Welcome back to The 12 Tags of Christmas Funkie Junkie Style!  It's Week #7 and we are starting the downhill slide to Christmas.  It seems hard to believe it's just around the corner, especially since we are still in the high 80s in here in north Florida.  We had one week in early October with cool dry temperatures but since then it's been hot and humid - unseasonably warm.  I am so ready for some fall temps!  It's making it hard to get into the Christmas mood to do my tags.  But I have to thank Tim Holtz for such an amazing selection of new Christmas products to get my mojo flowing!  He's had a banner season, especially with the awesome Idea-ology Yuletide collection and now with some fun Ranger goodies too.

A few weeks  back we received the new Frozen Foil Transfer Sheets and the Frozen set of Stickles.  I knew that I would have to play with these wonderful colors.  They were my inspiration for Tag #7.  I started with Wendy Vecchi's new Text background stamp and used it to stamp on of my favorite jumbo manila tags using Jet Black archival ink.

Once stamped, it was given a few shots of Brushed Pewter distress stains.  Don't forget, when you use Tim's spray stains, you need to make sure you wipe any spray from the nozzle.  There is a resin in the spray and it gums up the tiny spray hole if you leave it there to dry.  When I went to use my Brushed Pewter, I couldn't get it to spray properly.  I rinsed it under hot running water, but no luck.  It only splattered out blobs.  Fortunately I had a couple of brand new sprayers from Dyan Reavely.  Her sprayers for the Dylusions sprays also fit Tim's distress sprays.  If you don't keep a couple of these sprayers on hand, you are apt to be frustrated when your distress sprays suddenly won't spray!

Next, using the new Tim Holtz Snowflakes Layering Stencil, I applied Wendy Vecchi's Silver embossing paste.  Once it was dry, I simply rubbed the Frozen Foil Transfers over the embossing paste.

Next up was the creation of my gorgeous focal snowflake.  I cut chipboard with the Stacked Snowflake die and applied Brushed Pewter distress stain as a base.  Once dry, the various colors of the Frozen Stickles set were applied.  That amazing die and a few great Tim Holtz products made this lovely stacked snowflake so easy to make.  I did have to let the Stickles dry overnight thought as I applied them fairly heavily.  The tag was topped off with a silver tone snowflake from the shop and I used the silver cord that came on the Stickles set for the tag tie.  

So, Week #7 has come and gone!  If you haven't already started the challenge, it is time to get crankin'.  If you are new to the challenge, please refer to Week #1 for all the challenge requirements.  One thing I have noticed is a number of entries do not include a link to The Funkie Junkie Boutique.  Please use the URL to my shop www.thefunkiejunkie.com as we are the sponsor of this challenge with lots of great prizes and a 15% off coupon for everyone who completes all 12 of the entries CORRECTLY!

Thanks so much to everyone for their comments and for the inspirational entries for the challenge.  I can't wait to see what you all make!









These products were used to make the above tag. They can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique where Tim Holtz and Wendy Vecchi 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 Pad #3
Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Reinker	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool - With 4 Blending Foams	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foam
Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Snowflakes	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - Silver	Ranger Palette Knife Set	Seasonal Stickles Assortment - Frozen	Ranger Shiny Foil Transfer Sheets - Frozen
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Brushed Pewter	Tim Holtz Ranger Metallic Distress Stain - Brushed Pewter	Dylusions Ink Spray Replacement Sprayers - 2 Pack	Sizzix Alternations Tim Holtz Stacked Snowflakes Bigz L Die	Antiqued Silver Tone Snowflake Charms - Set of 6
Silver Tone Jump Ring Set

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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

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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!