Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Summer Heat!


Hello, I'm back to help Frilly and Funkie kick off week two of Sue Carrington's Summer Heat challenge.  Sue wants us to use bright warm colors and also to include a summer bloom.  This tag was so much fun to make.  I loved getting my fingers totally inky!   I decided to mix Ripe Persimmon and Picked Raspberry distress inks.  Starting with a jumbo manila tag, I brushed it liberally with gesso and when dry, stenciled on Wendy Vecchi's translucent embossing paste with a Prima lattice stencil.  When the embossing paste was totally dry,  I sponged on Ripe Persimmon and Picked Raspberry distress inks, then sprayed on Perfect Pearls Heirloom Gold mist and let it run down the tag.  I further applied the Perfect Pearls Heirloom Gold by dipping my finger into the leftover PP on my craft sheet and just applying it in various places with my fingertip (yep, more inky fingers :).  I had to sponge more Ripe Persimmon and Picked Raspberry ink on the areas where I had sprayed the Perfect Pearls because it washed some of the color away.  

The Spring Greenery decorative strip die was used to cut to ivy sprays from kraft card stock, then stamped with Wendy Vecchi's Vintage Mesh background stamp in Jet Black archival ink, the misted with more Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls.  I was going to do green ivy but didn't want to introduce a cool color into my summer heat piece.  I included a couple of tiny bronze flowers with hot orange rhinestone centers.  

The crinoline flower was made according to this tutorial (which created inky pinky fingers:).  The #hashtags set and Chit Chat stickers were used to create the sentiment.  I have to say again, what a blast I had playing around making this tag!  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Please stop by Frilly and Funkie too and maybe even play along...and you just might be the random winner of a $25 gift certificate to The Funkie Junkie Boutique, where just incidentally you can purchase all the products I used to create this tag!


The following products were used to create the above tag.  They are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique where Tim Holtz/Ranger/Wendy Vecchi and other name brand products are always 20% below MSRP.

Posted by Linda Coughlin, the funkie junkie at 2:00 AM 13 comments

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Finding Serenity

Greetings!  I'm here again with my Sunday Artistic Outpost post, this week looking for a little serenity with the Artistic Outpost Serenity set.  Love this set!  I started with a jumbo manila tag, sponging it with Peeled Paint and Mowed Lawn for the greens and Peacock Feathers for the blue sky, then I spritzed it a bit with Perfect Pearls Perfect Pearl mist to give it a little sheen.  Once I had the background laid down, the stamps from the Serenity set were stamped in Jet Black archival.  

I cut a piece of card stock that had been sponged with Walnut Stain and the Woodgrain stencil with the Courtyard Frameworks die and embellished it with several filigree metal pieces.  The sentiment was stamped on a book page that had been brushed with gesso.  I finished it off with a stencil mark, key and tiny heart.  You can find most of the products used here in my on-line boutique The Funkie Junkie Boutique.  

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you find some serenity this week!


These products were used to make the above tag and are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique, where Tim Holtz/Ranger and most other name-brand products are always 20% below MSRP.
Posted by Linda Coughlin, the funkie junkie at 12:00 AM 6 comments

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Summer Sunshine


Hello again,

I'm here today with my weekly sample for Frilly and Funkie.  We are kicking off the Frilly week with a new challenge from Sue Carrington.  Sue's challenge theme is Summer Heat and she wants us to create something with warm colors such as red, orange and sunshine yellow.  As an added twist, we need to include a summer bloom on our project.  

I started my card with a sheet of Tim Holtz patterned paper from the Wildflower collection.   I wanted something with a bright yellow, but also vintage and shabby too.  I created a little flower patch by cutting white CS with the Tattered Flowers decorative strip die and staining them with Mustard Seed distress stain.  While they were wet, I crumpled them and dried them crumpled with my heat tool.  Once unfurled, they were edged with Vintage Photo DI.  I scrounged around in my stash and came up with three different small bronze flowers that I used for the centers.  The cheese cloth was spritzed with Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls mist, but I had so much Mustard Seed stain on my fingers that it took on a greenish-yellow cast.  I actually really like the way it came out - a happy accident.  

The Writing Desk die was used to cut the feather out of white CS and then was stenciled using the Tim Holtz Latticework stencil with Mustard Seed and edged with Vintage Photo.  A piece of white CS was used to mat the top layer.  It was also stenciled with the Latticework stencil and Mustard Seed, then edged with a bit of Frayed Burlap.  I broke out a Hash Tags stamp set for to have for myself.  I didn't think I would really like it at first, but I've been seeing it used and decided that I really do like the set.  

And there you have it.  A fairly quick and easy card - only took me about two hours.  Using the patterned paper made the whole thing come together pretty quickly.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you will also stop over at Frilly and Funkie and maybe even visit our designers' blogs and leave them some love!



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

Posted by Linda Coughlin, the funkie junkie at 2:00 AM 20 comments
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