Challenge: 12 Tags of Christmas - Funkie Junkie Style - Week #8

Hello friends and visitors, so happy to have you back to see my tag #8.  I so appreciate you stopping by and also appreciate the lovely comments.  To those of you playing along in this challenge, I'm so pleased to have you on board this year and hope you are enjoying getting some Christmas artwork made up ahead of time.  

This week, I managed to move a little out of the monochromatic rut I seem to have been in for most of this year's tags.  And I also realized that I used the Tattered Poinsettia die for the last three tags so I've put that out of sight.  Please slap my had if I reach for it again!

I've been waiting to include some clear embossing on a tag this year and happened to see a fabulous technique by Tammy Tutterow this week that I tried to use.  She calls it satin damask background and you can find her post here.  I absolutely loved how hers came out and decided to give it a try on this tag.  I started by applying Faded Jeans distress stain to my jumbo manila tag.  Then I clear embossed the snowflake stamp from Tim Holtz's Mini Holidays stamp set. Then I gave it three applications of the Picket White distress paint as Tammy suggested.  Then I stamped the script stamp over everything and sponged the edges with Walnut Stain DI.  

My snowflakes were cut with a Stampin' Up decorative strip die.  Love this die as it has about 10 different snowflake patterns on it.  I also stamped them with the script stamp and misted them with Perfect Pearls Biscotti Mist.  Santa, from Tim's Old Fashioned Christmas set, was stamped in the new Wendy Vecchi Potting Soil archival ink and colored with a water brush and distress ink pads (too lazy to get out my markers).  I gave him a little bling with some Clear Rock Candy Distress Glitter on his hat and cuffsplus some Black Soot glitter on his buttons.  

My sentiment panel was cut with the Sized Ovals M&S dies and stamped second and third generation in Potting Soil archival.  The sentiment was also stamped in Potting Soil.  In looking at the photos, I really wish I had clear embossed the sentiment which would have made it pop a bit.  I did give it a little bling with a mist or two of Biscotti Perfect Pearls mist.  

A piece of ivory twine and a rusty jingle bell held on with a wire pin make up the finishing accent.  

These supplies used to make the tag above are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique where Tim Holtz and Ranger products are always 20% below MSRP.

25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Old Fashioned Christmas	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Mini Holidays	Ranger Embossing Powder - Clear
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Pad	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Faded Jeans	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Picket Fence	Ranger Inkssentials Mister Bottle	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Stain
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink - Potting Soil	Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stamps - Live and Make Art	Ranger Perfect Pearls Mists - Biscotti	Tim Holtz Water Brush, Detailer Brush Nib	Ivory/White Jute Twine
Rusted Metal Embellishments - Hearts, Stars, Bottle Caps, Bells	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Wire Pins	Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Clear Rock Candy	Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Black Soot

Welcome Autumn

I'm back today with my Funkie week make for the two-week Frilly and Funkie Autumn challenge.  I used the wonderful vintage style Hayride plate recently released by Artistic Outpost to create a autumn blessings piece.  It's very rustic looking, mounted on a shell of rust colored card stock with a layer of corrugated cardboard.  The background paper is from my current fall favorite set Maja Design Walking in the Forest collection.  The images were stamped on white card stock using Jet Black archival ink, then were sponged with Vintage Photo DI.  I embossed and sanded a piece of kraft core for the Autumn Blessings panels.  The flower is a bronze daisy from my boutique, embossed with Antique Linen distress EP and topped with a carved coconut shell button.  A little random stitching finished off the homespun feel of the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Hope your week is going great!

The supplies below were used to make this card and are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique, where Tim Holtz/Ranger products are always 20% below MSRP.

Artistic Outpost Hay Ride Unmounted Rubber Stamps	Maja Design Scrapbook Paper - Walking in the Forest 12x12	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Reinker	Corrugated Cardboard (6 sheets)
Core′dinations - Tim Holtz Ranger- Nostalgic Kraft Core Cardstock 12 x 12	Tim Holtz Ranger Idea-ology Sanding Grip	Tim Holtz idea-ology Refill Pack for Sanding Grip (4 sheets)	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tiny Attacher	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tiny Attacher Refills
Carved Coconut Shell Buttons - 5/8"	Bronze Metal Daisies for Scrapbooking and Mixed Media	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder - Antique Linen

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

Time is marching on.  We're already into November, daylight savings time has faded into the early twilight of standard time and the holidays are just around the corner.  Anticipation is picking up and we are already onto Christmas Tag #7.  If you are playing along with me this year, thank you so much.  If not, there is still time.  You can complete the tags any time, in any order.  You just have to have them all finished by December 22 to be eligible for the challenge prizes ($50 grand prize gift certificate and two $25 second and third prize gift certificates to The Funkie Junkie Boutique). 

Here is my inspiration tag for week #7.  I hope you can find something on it to inspire you to make a holiday piece (card, tag, scrapbook page, home dec piece, etc.) and enter in into the challenge.  This week I created a background on my jumbo manilla tag using the Textured Poinsettia Pattern texture fade, sponged it with Vintage Photo DI and then applied embossing ink and Enamelware embossing powder.  My small tags were cut with an older Sizzix die from Maja Design It's Christmas Time paper.  The snowflakes were cut with a Stampin' Up decorative strip die and one was cut with the TH Mini Snowflakes die.  I stamped them lightly with a script stamp using Vintage Photo DI and then misted them with Biscotti Perfect Pearls mist.  I added a bit of linen ribbon plus a Festive Foliage to each tag.  The Festive Foliages were altered using Ginger alcohol ink and topped with a brown pearl.  The JOY letters were cut from gray chipboard from the Word Play die, painted white with Picket Fence distress paint, edged with Vintage Photo DI, covered with Glossy Accents and Clear Rock Candy distress glitter was applied while the Glossy Accents was wet.

The Joy to the World was cut with the Stacked Words:  Christmas decorative strip die from white card stock, edged with Vintage Photo DI, covered with Glossy Accents and Clear Rock Candy distress glitter.  The poinsettia was cut with the Tattered Poinsettia die.  I used the two smaller of the two flowers plus the mini poinsettia M&S die.  They were stamped with the script stamp from Apothecary (I'm addicted to that stamp!) using Vintage Photo DI.  The bottom one was also sponged with Iced Spruce.  They were all misted with Biscotti Perfect Pearls.  The little foliage branches were cut from white CS, sponged with Vintage Photo and covered with Vintage Photo glitter, which has become my favorite distress glitter.

Those are the deers on tag #7.  Thanks so much for stopping by today and for your lovely comments. I hope to see your take on tag #7 linked up for us all to enjoy. I'll be back in the morning to add the link.


These products were used in the creation of this tag.  They are available at The Funkie Junkie boutique where Tim Holtz/Ranger products are always 20% below MSRP.

25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Pad	Ranger Embossing Powder - Enamelware
Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Stacked Words: Christmas	Mini Snowflakes Sizzix Alterations Movers & Shaperss by Tim Holtz	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Word Play Die	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Tattered Poinsettia BIGz Die	Tim Holtz Mini Cardinal and Poinsettia Sizzix Alterations Movers and Shapers Dies
Tim Holtz Distress Stickles Dry Glitter Clear Rock Candy	Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Clear Rock Candy	Ranger Perfect Pearls Mists - Biscotti	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Iced Spruce	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Apothecary
Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Vintage Photo	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Linen Ribbon