Saturday Showcase - Junk Journal featuring Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 Stamps and Stencils

Hi everyone and welcome to another Saturday Showcase, the Design Team's chance to share tutorials and products available from The Funkie Junkie Boutique with you. As part of the current 'Positively Pensive' challenge I put together a junk journal featuring the designs of Wendy Vecchi and some ways of using ballpoint pens to decorate the pages.

If you just want to take a look at the junk journal in more detail here's a short flip through video to show the pages inside - for those who want to know how it all came together I've added a tutorial below;

The Tutorial

As mentioned in my challenge post I took to YouTube to find a way of decorating stamped images with ballpoint pens and found a brilliant tutorial by Alphonso Dunn HERE. Armed with this new found knowledge I stamped and coloured a heap of Wendy Vecchi designed flowers.

To show you this stage in more detail here's just one of the flowers from one of Wendy's older stamp sets, stamped with a couple of coordinating Archival Inks and shaded at different stages with the coordinating ballpoint pens. It's worth checking out the range of Archival Ink colours that Linda has in stock as it's a great alternative to the black ink I am sure we all reach for instinctively.

And here's a close up of some of those flowers, trimmed and inked around the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Oxide Ink.

Next up I used blue, pink and green Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paints with my gel plate to create a bunch of coloured papers ready for use on the tea stained pages. As well as using regular copier paper I also pulled prints on some of the white tissue and brown paper that our orders come lovingly wrapped in. It's also well worthwhile looking through some of those scrapbook papers you may have in your stash - I found a couple in mine that worked well once tea stained.

And so now it's on to creating the junk journal - I began by cutting two Pocket Notebook cover pieces from regular cardstock using Eileen Hull's Sizzix Scoreboards Die. After gluing them together along the spine I covered the outside with one of the gel plate prints. To add extra decoration I stamped the beautiful lacy flower from Wendy Vecchi's stamp set 'Friends & Art' randomly across the back and front. To strengthen the inside I covered it with fabric, frayed around the edges, before stitching along the edge of the cover. Since at this stage the coloured paper on the outside was already starting to tear a little along the scorelines I embraced that and used a pair of scissors to scuff the paper along those lines.

Below you'll see how I layered a few of the painted papers beneath one of the stamped flowers. Adding a little fabric and some stitching is really effective, as is stamping onto some of the painted tissue before applying it over the flower with Distress Collage Medium Matte. I'm definitely going to be doing this a lot more in future.

Eileen's 'Pocket Notebook' Die has a section for cutting basic pages so I made a few from tea stained copier paper, stamping them with lines ready for someone to journal on. Use the Archival Inks that have been used for the flowers and you get a coordinated look throughout your journal. I would also mention at this stage that if you are not a fan of tea staining paper and card you may prefer to use Seth Apter's 'Tea' Izink Dye Spray. To make more sturdy pages I used a couple of long envelopes, glued together at the top and trimmed to fit as shown below.

Pockets need things to go in them so I stamped the flower images onto the edges of tea stained index cards and postcards with 'Acorn' Archival Ink. Since there was no margin line on the index cards I added one to each of them with the pink ballpoint pen.

Below you'll see how I attached punched strips of patterned paper to the outside of the envelope pages to create pockets. These can be decorated with a mix of the coloured paper/tissue, design tape and lines drawn with ballpoint pens.

Turning to the inside of the envelope pages I added gel printed paper to one side, adding a smaller pocket and part of a stamped flower image. On the other side I stuck down a medium glassine bag from Linda's store and stamped a Wendy flower and phrase onto it with Archival Ink. Since the bag is translucent you can see the tag that's been added inside.

More interactive pages were created using an A4 sized piece of tea stained graph paper; I folded it up to fit inside the cover and then folded it roughly in half. After cutting down the fold line on the folded up piece I glued down one side to create a large pocket for a tag (the page on the left hand side). I left the piece on the right hand side so that it could be folded down to reveal a hidden panel. The right hand flap was stamped with Wendy Vecchi's 'Tiled' Background stamp whilst the pocket on the left hand side was trimmed with a piece of book paper. Flowers were added to both along with more paper, design tape and ballpoint pen lines.

And here's how I decorated one of those hidden flaps with gel plate printed paper, a flower and ballpoint pen marks made by using a stencil from Wendy Vecchi's 'Thank You' Stamp/Die/Stencil set.

All those pockets need filling so I made a bunch of tags, adding gel printed papers, stamping with the 'Tiled' background and design tape to them.

And just a final idea for another pocket to be added to the back of one of the graph paper pages - I found these brown wage packets ages back and decided to decorate a few in the same way as before with papers, tape and hand drawn ballpoint pen lines. I also added a checkerboard pattern to one of the tags using the stencil in Wendy Vecchi's 'Flower Pot' Stamp/Die/Stencil set.

Now here's a reminder of how just a couple of the pages looked when assembled;

Thanks for visiting to catch today's Saturday Showcase tutorial - I hope you've enjoyed seeing some ideas for using Wendy Vecchi's gorgeous designs in combination with ballpoint pens.

There's still time to enter the current Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog challenge 'Positively Pensive' to be in with the chance of being a Guest Designer here. We look forward to seeing your amazing creations.

Jenny

Products used to create this junk journal are available from The Funkie Junkie Boutique and are listed/linked below.

Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 Stampers Anonymous Stamp Set - Friends & Art
Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 Stampers Anonymous Stamp Set - Funky Flower Art

Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 Stampers Anonymous Background Stamp - Tiled
Wendy Vecchi MAKE ART Stamp/Die/Stencil Set - Thank You
Wendy Vecchi MAKE ART Stamp/Die/Stencil Set - Flower Pot

Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 Stampers Anonymous Stamp Sets

Ranger Archival Inks

Dina Wakley Media Paints

Tim Holtz Ideaology Design Tape - Salvaged

Eileen Hull Designs Sizzix Scoreboards Die Pocket Notebook

Saturday Showcase - Tim Holtz Stamps for a Festive Birthday Card

It's our final Saturday Showcase tutorial of the year here at the Frilly and Funkie Challenge blog. We hope you are enjoying this series as we showcase a variety of techniques and projects incorporating the range of craft supplies stocked in The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

This is a busy time of year for sending those festive cards to friends and family and of course there are still people marking other celebrations like birthdays. Here's an idea for using a selection of Tim Holtz stamp sets to create a festive birthday card and as you'll see I'm keeping in with our current challenge theme for using things you'd see 'In the Kitchen'.

Here are the steps I took to create this card (and remember to click on each photo for a closer look).

Start by cutting a piece of white card smaller than you card blank and use a brayer or spatula to scrap a little White Gesso over the surface unevenly. Blend Old Paper Distress Oxide Ink over the dry gesso background. Dampen a piece of tissue or cloth and wipe over the surface - the gesso acts as a partial resist to the ink so you will be left with a mottled look. Stamp the Music background from the Music & Advert stamp set with Watering Can Archival Ink over the background.

Stamp the wine bottle image from the Wine Blueprint stamp set onto the lower half of the background using Black Archival Ink (I used my Stamp Platform to make sure I got a perfectly replicated image). Next stamp the cork screw image above the bottle, again with Black Archival Ink. Paint the metal part with Sterling Acrylic Paint and dry before re-stamping the image with the Archival Ink; this ensures the details are not lost beneath the paint.

On a spare piece of card stamp the wine bottle image as before and this time colour it with Umber, Fuchsia and Buff Acrylic Paints. Re-stamp with the Archival Ink to add the details back in and cut out the image. Repeat this process for with the handle of the cork screw, painting it with the Umber Acrylic Paint before re-stamping and cutting out.

Use numbers from the Merchant stamp set to stamp and emboss the recipient's age if required; I used Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder but a silver or gold colour could work equally well.

Apply dimensional foam tape or similar to the reverse of the wine bottle and cork screw handle and layer onto the background over the original images.

Use Distress Inks and stamp out some of the Winter Watercolor foliage onto Watercolor card. The colours used here were Peeled Paint, Bundled Sage, Aged Mahogany and Walnut Stain.

Cut around the foliage (leaving as much of a white border as you like) and blend the Walnut Stain Distress Ink around the edges to age the white parts. Blend the same ink around the edges of the stamped background too.

To create matting layers for your stamped background cut a piece of Silver Metallic Kraft Card and a piece of white card to size. Sand the Metallic Card lightly to give it a burnished look and paint the edges of the white card with Fushia Acrylic Paint to match the wine bottle.

Finish the card by layering the three background together and arranging the foliage around the bottle and cork screw. I stitched around the edge of the main background too before adding it all to the card blank as a finishing touch.

Now let's take a closer look at the finished card so you can see how it came together in more detail;

I hope you've enjoyed finding out more about how this festive birthday card came together. A list of the essential ingredients is listed below, all available from The Funkie Junkie Boutique. And remember there's still time to enter our final Frilly and Funkie challenge of 2018 HERE.

Jenny xxx

Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint - White Gesso, 1oz Bottle	Ranger BRAYER, MEDIUM 3-5/16" W/HANDLE	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Old Paper	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Music & Advert	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink Pad - Watering Can AID39006
Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Wine Blueprint	Ranger Archival Ink Pad - Jet Black AIP31468	Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint - Sterling, 1 oz Bottle	Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint - Umber, 1 oz Bottle	Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint - Buff 1oz
Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint - Fuchsia, 1oz Bottle	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Merchant	Ranger Embossing Powder - Liquid Platinum EPJ37484	Ranger Letter It Embossing Pad	Ranger ADHESIVE - BLACK FOAM ROLL 1/2" X 1/16"x 2 YDS IWT40507
Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Winter Watercolor	Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Bundled Sage TDP39891	Ranger Tim Holtz MIni Distress Ink Pad - Aged Mahogany TDP39839	Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Peeled Paint TDP40071	Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Stain TDP40279
Tim Holtz Idea-ology 8 x 8 Metallic Kraft Stock