A Time to be Grateful

Hi! Suzz here. I am back to share our latest challenge for you. This year has definitely been a difficult one I wanted to have a challenge where I reflected on what I am grateful for. Here is my challenge to you:

"Around this time of the year when we start to get into the holidays and the rush of everything it is a good time to reflect on what we are grateful for. My challenge to you is to capture that in your art. Show what you are grateful for in any type of project, it could be a journal page,  a card, or anything else that expresses your gratitude. You choose how to show your thankfulness and share it with us."

The winner will earn a chance to be a Guest Designer at a future date here at The Funkie Junkie Boutique blog, and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the draw for the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. There are also Top 3 Badges for three additional outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team.

The guidelines for entering are simple; create a new vintage or shabby chic project following the challenge theme, link it below to your post (not just your blog) and also include a link back to this challenge in your post. You can combine our challenge with up to 10 challenges (including this one) to be in with a chance of winning. If you are entering through a public forum (such as Instagram) you'll need to include the words 'Funkie Junkie Boutique Challenge'. Also, please be sure to turn off your Word Verification so our Design Team can leave comments on your blogs. Make sure you follow these rules as unfortunately, we have had to eliminate entrants from the prize draws in the past.

The design team as always has knocked it out of the park!

 Cec Wintonyk - CW Creations

Sara Emily Barker - sarascloset

Jenny Marples - Pushing The Right Buttons

Suzanne Czosek - Suzz's Stamping Spot

Hopefully this gives you a chance to get into your crafty space and create something inspired by what you are grateful for.

Suzz

Give Thanks!

Hello! It's Sara Emily here to bring you our newest challenge, "Give Thanks!" We have so much to be grateful for! The Frilly and Funkie team is thankful for our loyal readers and our newest visitors! For this challenge, simply create a vintage or shabby chic project that expresses gratitude.

The team will choose their top four picks with the winner being invited to join us as a Guest Designer here at Frilly and Funkie and the next three will receive Top 3 badges to display on their blogs. Everyone who enters and follows the rules will be entered into the draw to have the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

The guidelines for entering are simple; create a new vintage or shabby chic project following the challenge theme, link it below to your post (not just your blog) and also include a link back to this challenge in your post. You can combine our challenge with up to 10 challenges (including this one) to be in with a chance of winning. If you are entering through a public forum (such as Instagram) you'll need to include the words Frilly and Funkie Challenge. Also, please be sure to turn off your Word Verification so our Design Team can leave comments on your blogs. Make sure you follow these rules as unfortunately we have had to eliminate entrants from the prize draws in the past.

Let's see some grateful inspiration from our Funkie team:

Sara Emily - sarascloset

Jenny Marples - Pushing The Right Buttons

Suzanne Czosek - Suzz's Stamping Spot

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WEEK ONE

Let's get started with some grateful inspiration from our Frilly team:

Kathy Clement - Kathy by Design

Cec Wintonyk - CW Creations

Autumn - SewPaperPaint

How will you express your gratitude? I hope that you'll join us for this challenge and share your vintage or shabby chic project that shows how you express your thankfulness. You have until midnight on Tuesday, December 5th to link up your project below. We can't wait to see what you make!

Hugs and Blessings!

Sara Emily

Friday Focus - Impression Obsession - Yvonne Blair

Happy Black Friday! Suzz here with our latest Friday Focus. The Yvonne Blair stamps by Impression Obsession are on sale! All of the Yvonne Blair Stamps at The Funkie Junkie Boutique will be reduced an additional 15% through December 9th. And speaking of discounts, it's Black Friday and everything at The Funkie Junkie Boutique is on sale, either at 35% off list for most product and 50% off list on all Clearance items! The sale runs through Cyber Monday. Quantities are limited - no rain checks so shop early for the best bargains!

Sentiments, verses, quips, sayings, any type of prose is one of my favorite type of stamps to use on art journal pages, layouts, cards or any type of creative venture. The verse itself inspires me to think of different ideas of what I want to create. Yvonne has everything from inspirational quotes to quirky and funny expressions.

For the holidays I created a series of index cards featuring the beautiful sentiments from Yvonne Blair along with the beautiful seasonal colors.
These index cards are part of a grateful mini-book. They were set at each person's place setting along with a pen. Both sides of the cards are finished with the intent that the person could indicate what they are grateful for along with their name and the date. That makes these re-usable year after year. After dinner is finished they are gathered up and put back into the mini-book until next year.
This index card was created with a mix of layered stencils sponged with distress inks: 

Here is the coordinating back of the card where they can write their thoughts of what they are thankful for.

This index card was intended for the back of the previous card. I loved how it turned out and decided to use it on the front of another card. This one was sponged with versamark using the stencil. Heat embossed with clear embossing powder. Then a mix of sprays were misted over the images. To finish it off the resist was removed by using an iron and two sheets of cardstock. This was to make a surface available again to write over.

I thought the Holiday Knit stencil would be fun in Autumn colors and used it on the back of this card.

This card features the beautiful red  cardinals against the gray background of birch trees. For the back of the card I repeated the birch stencil.

This index card used the fall foliage layering stencil with crackle paste. After the paste dried a mix of distress stain sprays added the beautiful fall colors.

The back of this grateful card is the cast off resist from when I ironed the clear embossing powder off. This leaves a bit of resist on the paper you use to sandwich the embossed image in. I used it to sponge a mix of yellows, oranges and reds over the leftover resist.

I love this beautiful sentiment and paired it with crackle stars. The stars were misted with yellow distress spray and brown ink was sponged over.

The back of the index card was a leftover mix of sprays picked up on a scrap piece of cardstock.

I hope you this has inspired you to look through the wonderful selection of stamps by Yvonne Blair in at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. Don't forget the Clearance section as well as Christmas and New Arrivals section.

Counting my blessings.

Suzz

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Mini Layering Stencils - Set 22	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Stars	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Birch THS069	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Spray Stain - Fossilized Amber	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Fossilized Amber
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Barn Door	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Barn Door	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Wild Honey	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Rusty Hinge	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Rusty Hinge
Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Concerto	Wendy Vecchi Crackle Texture Paste	Ranger Tim Holtz Hickory Smoke Distress Ink Pad	Ranger Tim Holtz Ground Espresso Distress Ink Pad	Ranger Tim Holtz Ground Espresso Distress Spray Stain
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Tarnished Brass	Impression Obsession - Yvonne Blair Designs - Walk by Faith	Yvonne Blair Impression Obession Wings	Yvonne Blair Impression Obsession Believe in Yourself	Yvonne Blair Impression Obsession Live by the Sun
Yvonne Blair Impression Obsession Faith	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Pad #3	Ranger Embossing Powder - Clear	Ranger Tim Holtz Ranger Tim Holtz Ground Espresso Distress Stain	VersaMark Watermark Ink Stamp Pad
Copper Keys for Scrapbooking and Mixed Media	Charm Pendant Antique Bronze "Love" Key	Idea Ology Typed tokens	Tim Holtz Idea-ology PINECONES Adornments	Wendy Vecchi stencil Select a Stencil