Showing posts with label Wendy Vecchi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wendy Vecchi. Show all posts

Saturday, October 3, 2020

Saturday Showcase - Eileen Hull Designs Sizzix Scoreboards Die 'Teacup, 3D & Spoon'

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. Following the official launch of the new Sizzix Chapter 4 dies this week today's spotlight falls on one of them, Eileen Hull's 'Teacup, 3D & Spoon' Scoreboards L Die. Both this and Eileen's second new die, 'Box, Post' Scoreboards XL Die are available now from The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

In the UK teacups are something of a national institution - we love a good 'cuppa' especially from a vintage teacup, traditionally decorated with floral patterns. So for this showcase I've created three of Eileen's new teacups in this vintage style that could be used to hold gifts like special teabags and maybe some cookies (biscuits).


Let's start by looking at what you get as part of the 'Teacup, 3D & Spoon' Die; below are the various shapes that can be cut with just one pass of the die, in this case cut from sturdy mount board.


In order to make a teacup like the ones shown at the beginning you'll need to cut two cup pieces and a supporting piece for the middle. I painted mine with white gesso before adding the decoration.


For the first teacup I stamped the image from Wendy Vecchi's 'Bouquet' Stamp It Stencil It set using Archival Ink on the front of one cup and the back of the second, colouring the flowers and petals with Seth Apter's Izink Pigment Inks.


To create a 'gilded' border around the top and bottom of the teacup, so often seen on traditional patterns, I took a spare teacup shape and used it as a template to draw a line about 1/4 inch from the top rim and up from the bottom rim with a gold pen. I then coloured above the top line and below the bottom line with the 'Cotton Candy' Izink Pigment Ink.


After embossing the stamped sides of both teacups with Eileen Hull's 'Glistening Glass' Molten Dimensions Embossing Powder I glued the pre-scored supporting piece in place at the bottom of the first cup as shown below. When set I glued the second cup to the other side of the supporting piece.


Moving on to the second cup I went with a very traditional blue and white look. Once again I used a spare teacup to mark a 1/4 inch border at the top and bottom of each cup, masking these areas off with washi tape before stamping them in blue Archival Ink with the image from Wendy Vecchi's 'Garden Fresh' Stamp it Stencil It set.


After drawing over the lines with a gold pen I embossing the stamped sides of both teacups with Eileen Hull's 'Glistening Glass' Molten Dimensions Embossing Powder I glued the pre-scored supporting piece in place at the bottom of the cup pieces as shown already. 


For the third cup I drew on the borders again and stamped the image from Wendy Vecchi's 'Rose' Stamp It Stencil It set with light grey Archival Ink using a stamping platform. This time I painted around the rose with 'Turquoise' Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint and painted the rose itself with 'Gilt' Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint. The rose was then over stamped with black Archival Ink and the border lines re-traced with a gold pen.


Once again I embossing the stamped sides of both teacups with Eileen Hull's 'Glistening Glass' Molten Dimensions Embossing Powder I glued the pre-scored supporting piece in place at the bottom of the cup pieces.


The matching teaspoon for the first cup was covered with white gesso like the teacups and then I drew lines with the gold pen, filling in the spoon bowl shape with the 'Cotton Candy' Seth Apter Izink Pigment Ink. I then clear embossed the spoon as before.


The second teaspoon was embossed with Eileen Hull's 'Golden Rod' Molten Dimensions Embossing Powder. Once heated until molten I pressed the 'Garden Fresh' stamp onto the handle to create the patterning seen below.


After covering the third teaspoon with white gesso I painted the handle with the 'Turquoise' Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint, drawing borders at the top and bottom with the gold pen. The handle was then embossed with an embossing folder and I coloured the raised pattern with a black pen before clear embossing the whole spoon like the first one.


Finally I used one of the teabag die cut shapes, cutting out the joining part and gluing the two main pieces together with some string between before painting it with 'Sand' Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint. The thank you words and little dots come from the Wendy Vecchi MAKE ART Stamp/Die/Stencil Set - 'Thank You'.


So with all the steps complete here are the finished teacups;




Thanks for visiting to catch today's Saturday Showcase tutorial featuring Eileen Hull's new 'Teacup, 3D & Spoon' Die.

There's still time to enter the current Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog challenge 'Fall Foliage' 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.

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Saturday, June 13, 2020

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
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Saturday, May 9, 2020

Saturday Showcase - Prima Marketing Pretty Mosaic

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. This time I've been combining the Prima Marketing 'Pretty Mosaic' Collection with a number of other ranges to create some ideas for pretty mixed media cards.


The base for each of the cards started with a piece of 12 x 12 inch card from the largest of the paper pads. This was altered by pressing it into a Gel Press plate to pick up the remains of some Dina Wakley Media Paint - you can see below how the addition of some shades of gold, red and orange gave the original sheet (shown underneath) a warmer glow. The card was then trimmed into four equal pieces each measuring 5 3/4 inches.


Here's the first of the cards;


The first base was embossed using the Tim Holtz 3D Embossing Folder 'Roses' and I painted over the raised areas with Buff and Gilt Paint from the Dina Wakley Media range.


There's a beautiful little silicone mould set in the Pretty Mosaic range that I used to create two paper clay butterflies. These were painted, first with diluted Fuchsia Paint then dry brushed with White Gesso to highlight the pattern. To give it a more vintage look I dripped a little Lemonade Alcohol Ink over the surface and dabbed it dry to remove any excess.


To make a base and plaque for the sentiment I cut a 6 inch piece from another sheet in the 'Pretty Mosaic' paper pad and edged it with Gilt Paint. The plaque was cut from a smaller piece of the same design using Eileen Hull's 'Gift Box' Die and was also edged with the Gilt Paint.


To enhance the embossed roses I added a stem of 'Susie' Pretty Mosaic flowers, twisting them into shape and gluing them in place. To secure them further I added some hand stitching with little beads.


To finish the card I stuck the smaller embossed layer to the larger Gilt edged piece, glued the butterflies in place and added the plaque, stamped with a sentiment from Wendy Vecchi's 'Funky Flower Art' stamp set. This was then mounted onto a 6 inch square white card blank.


Now for the second card;


I stencilled over the base using Tim Holtz 'Roses' Layering Stencil with Opaque Matte Texture Paste, painting over the top with Heather Paint.


More of the Heather Paint was used to colour seam binding that was then threaded through some Venise Lace from Linda's store. I stuck this to one side of the base using double sided adhesive tape on the reverse side.


To create the floral bouquet I stamped the roses from Wendy Vecchi's 'Rosy Art' stamp set with Plum Archival Ink twice, painting both sets with Heather and a mix of Evergreen and Eggplant Paint. This was also repeated on a coordinating Mat Mini. After cutting and shaping the leaves and flowers I layered them together, adding a little hot glue in between the leaves to give them more dimension and stability.


To contrast with the darker, smaller leaves in the bouquet I stamped spiky leaves from Wendy Vecchi's 'Funky Flower Art' repeatedly with Plum Archival Ink, painting them with a mix of Lime and Gilt Paint. Once cut out these were also shaped before being glued beneath the roses and smaller leaves.


To finish the card I stuck the stencilled smaller piece to a 6 inch piece of card taken from another of the designs in the 'Pretty Mosaic' paper pad. With the bouquet glued in place I added a bow of seam binding made with the offcut from the lace border and stamped a sentiment from Wendy Vecchi's 'Funky Flower Art' stamp set onto a small tag cut from another of the sheets in the paper pad. As for the first card I mounted the finished layers onto a 6 inch square white card blank.


And here's the third and final card;


As for the previous two I started by altering the base layer, this time by stamping and embossing into the centre Wendy Vecchi's 'Vintage Mesh' background stamp using gold embossing powder. Once heat set I cut a 3 1/4 inch square out of the centre.


Taking a 6 inch square piece from a coordinating sheet from the 'Pretty Mosaic' paper pad I cut a 4 inch square out of the centre. To disguise any unpatterned areas around the edges of each piece I stamped them with the lacy flower from Wendy Vecchi's 'Friends & Art' stamp set using Plum Archival Ink.


After sticking the two outer squares together I layered the smaller squares with pieces of scrap paper, a die cut piece of 'Crochet' lace and an offcut of paper from the 'Pretty Mosaic' paper pad.


To decorate the paper collage I stamped the lacy flower from Wendy Vecchi's 'Friends & Art' stamp set on to card twice. These were painted with a combination of Olive and Eggplant Paint and White Gesso before being cut out and layered together with hot glue. I also painted a flower head using a Mat Mini from the coordinating set, adding dots of Wendy Vecchi's 'Sunflower' Liquid Pearls onto the centre of each tiny flower.


To finish I added the flower to the centre of the paper collage, stamped a sentiment from Wendy Vecchi's 'Funky Floral Art' stamp set onto scraps of 'Pretty Mosaic' card and mounted it on top of the flower. As with the previous cards I adhered this to a 6 inch square white card blank.


Thanks for visiting to catch today's Saturday Showcase tutorial - I hope you've enjoyed seeing some ideas for using the 'Pretty Mosaic' Collection in combination with your other favourite art supplies.

There's still time to enter the current Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog challenge 'Sew Sweet' 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 these cards are available from The Funkie Junkie Boutique and are listed/linked below.


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