Challenge: 12 Tags of Christmas - Funkie Junkie Style - Week #11

Good Monday morning, friends.  Welcome to all my new followers - hope you will hop aboard the 12 Tags of Christmas - Funkie Junkie Style!  If you are new to this challenge, you can read all about it here.  I'm back this morning with my Tag #11.  We are almost to the finish line now.  You have until December 17th to submit all your tags.  They can be done in any order as long as they are all finished and uploaded by that date.

Thank you so much to everyone who as played along so far.  If I haven't visited you and commented on each and every one of your entires, my apologies!  You may already know that I am in the middle of moving.  The moving van will be here tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. so right now it's pack, pack and pack.  Once the stuff is on the truck, I will have time to visit you all.  Unfortunately, we don't have a house to move into so we will be heading for my mom and dad's place to camp out for a few weeks until we figure out what we are going to do.  We did have a deal on a house, but we had to withdraw our offer on Sunday.  The inspection showed high levels of radon gas in the home.  We had the test repeated to confirm the results and the second test came back way higher than the first so we just had to walk away from that home, which broke our hearts because we thought we had finally found exactly what we were looking for.  Now we are back to square one.

Here are the deets on Tag #11.  As always I started with a jumbo manila tag.  It was clear embossed with the Fabulous Flourishes stamp and then a script stamp was stamped over the entire piece in Jet Black Archival.  After that, it was sponged heavily with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  I created a wreath of sorts built on a rosette.

I cut multiple holly leaves using the Festive Greenery Decorative Strip die, sponged them with Vintage Photo and glued them to the rosette.  The holly berries, cut with the same die, were stained with a drop of Vintage Photo Distress Stain and then coated with Glossy Accents.  The pretty amber button is from Tim Holtz's Idea-ology line.  I cut felt leaves using the Holly Banch die and applied chunky glitter over a coat of Claudine Hellmuth's Multi Medium Matte.  The sentiment is a stamp from the Mini Holidays 4 set, the brads holding it were embossed with Vintage Photo Distress Embossing Powder.  The lovely cluster at the bottom was all cut with the Festive Greenery die.

That's it, folks.  Now it's your turn - can't wait to see how this piece will inspire yours!  Thanks again for stopping by and or playing along.  Hope you have a great week.

Home for the Holidays

Hello and welcome to my Wednesday post.  This week I am combining my sample for Frilly and Funkie with the monthly Artistic Outpost blog hop.  This month our Artistic Outpost hop theme is Christmas and I have chosen to use the wonderful Snowy Woods set.  And great news about a sale at Artistic Outpost - you can get Snowy Woods and other Christmas stamps at 15% off.

On Sale at Artistic Outpost - Christmas Stamps ONLY 

will be 15% with 

code Christmas2012

Sale will run Wednesday, Nov 21 - Monday Nov 26th

Here's our Artistic Outpost blog hop line up.  Short and sweet - hope you will stop by these wonderful artists' blogs and leave them some love!

*Lisa Somerville * Suzanne Czosek * Tracy Evans * Gerrie Johnnic *

The theme over at Frilly and Funkie is Chipboard and Metal.  Plus I was looking at the Compendium of Curiosities challenge over at Linda Ledbetter's StudioL3 and the challenge is embossing folder techniques (page 64 of CC2C) so I used the Woodgrain Texture Fade on the fence, coloring it with distress ink, per Mr. Holtz's instruction on page 64 of the Compendium of Curiosities 2 book.

I started the project by stamping the door in Jet Black Archival ink and then coloring it with chalks, which I think work so well on these photograph type stamps.  The burlap was glued to a thin sheet of card stock and then cut with a Spellbinders die, then a second smaller tag was cut from vanilla CS to layer over it.  The snowflakes from the set were stamped in Faded Jeans DI and the tag was grunged up with Vintage Photo distress reinker and water.  The Dec. 24th calendar page was stamped in embossing ink and gold embossed, then sponged with Faded Jeans Distress Ink.  The snowflakes were cut from burlap and felt with the Mini Snowflakes Movers and Shapers die.  (Before die cutting the burlap, I gave it a coat of Multi Medium Matt on the back to hold it together).  Of course the fence was cut from chipboard with the One the Fence die.  My filigree metal snowflake was embossed with my favorite embossing powder - Enamelware.

For my background panel, I did the marbled stains technique using Faded Jeans and Tarnished Brass distress stains.  Then evergreen branches were stamped with embossing ink and gold embossed.  It was edged with gold embossing too.  It doesn't show much, but I really love the way the background turned out.









The following products used to make this card can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique - storewide 10% off moving sale through November 23rd.

Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz On the Edge On the Fence Die	Mini Snowflakes Sizzix Alterations Movers & Shaperss by Tim Holtz	Tim Holtz Sixxiz Texture Fades - Bricked and Woodgrain Set	Snowflake Filigree Metals	Ranger Embossing Powder - Enamelware	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Pad
Ranger Embossing Powder - Queen′s Gold	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Reinker	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Faded Jeans	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Faded Jeans	Tim Holtz Ranger Metallic Distress Stain - Tarnished Brass
Natural Jute Mesh (Burlap)	Claudine Hellmuth Multi Medium Matte	Ranger Tim Holtz Compendium of Curiosities Vol. II

Snowy Background

Good Saturday morning friends!  I'm back today with my weekly challenge card for Our Creative Corner.  This week the talented Ms. Sue Butler is our hostess and she is challenging us to make our own background.  And I do mean it's a challenge!  Wait 'til you see the cool makes the design team has created!  I did a pretty simple masked and stamped background, starting with the music stencil from Tim Holtz, I then stamped over it with the music stamp from Artistic Outpost in Jet Black Archival Ink.    To add a little extra interest, I stamped a random dotted pattern in Snow Cap acrylic paint.

Other than that, it is pretty straight forward.  The holly leaves were cut with a Tim Holtz die as was the snowflake rosette.  The small snowflake in the center of the rosette is a SU die and the tiny snowflakes are from a Martha Stewart punch.  Santa and the sentiment are from the Artistic Outpost set Snowy Woods.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you will visit us over at Our Creative Corner to see the other fantastic art pieces by the design team members!


The following products are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique - this week we are having a 10% off sale!

Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Mini Snowflake Rosettes (2 sizes) Die

May Arts Crocheted Lace - 5/8" Natural

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo

Artistic Outpost Ephemera Backgrounds Unmounted Rubber Stamps

Vintage Calendar

Sue Carrington is our hostess over at Frilly and Funkie for this fortnight and she has challenged us to make anything but a card with a twist.  That twist is it must have something hidden - a pocket, a flap, an envelope or even a box with something inside.  I must say, I was challenged!  It took me awhile to decide what I was going to do and in the end, I decided to CASE a vintage calendar I made two years ago when I was on the Simon Says Stamp and Show team.  The post is here in case you want to take a look.  I know it looks like a card, but it isn't.  It is made of heavy chipboard folded and it has a support glued inside so it is very sturdy and stands perfectly without slipping down.

I started with a good heavy piece of chipboard and trimmed it to 6x12" and scored/folded it at the 6" mark.  Then I covered it with old stash designer paper by Wild Asparagus (Home Sweet Home  floral/red).  It is such nice heavy paper, printed double sided with a pretty pattern on one side and solid deep red on the other.  I used the patterned side for the outer covering and the solid red for the inner covering.  As it happened, the red in the Core'dinations Kraft Core paper pack matched the red in the designer paper almost perfectly so it worked great for the accent strips.  I used an old Cuttlebug embossing folder set called Organic Flourish to emboss the top and bottom strips and then sanded them - LOVE that effect!

Here's the little trick- the top and bottom strips are only glued half way leaving an opening so a panel can be slid in and out which makes the calendar adaptable for each month of the year.  I just need to make a panel for each month.  That's the hidden part of this piece.

I added a sentiment panel inside which I will see each month when I change to a new monthly calendar.  I love this sentiment that I got free a long time ago from Anne at Raindrop Echo Designs. It's digital so I printed it on my computer and then stamped the frame in Aged Mahogany with a stamp from Waltzing Mouse Designs.  Then it was cut with a matching Spellbinders die.

I created the December calendar on Excel as well as a full year 2013 calendar which I slipped into the corners I glued to the back.  If you would like these Excel program calendars, please email me at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com and I'll be happy to email them to you.  Mine was printed on vellum.

The stamps used here are from the Snowy Woods collection from Artistic Outpost.  I just got my hands on them, freshly mounted and used here for the first time.  Now, if I can just get myself motivated to create one monthly panel each month, I'll have myself a nice desk calendar.

I used that awesome new Clear Rock Candy Distress Stickles Dry Glitter on the snowflakes so I am entering this in the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge Show Some Sparkle.

Be sure to stop by Frilly and Funkie to see all the wonderful pieces the design team has created.  There are sure to be fun surprises in their designs!







These products used to make this piece can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

Mini Tickets Sizzix Alterations Movers & Shapers by Tim Holtz	Core′dinations - Tim Holtz Ranger- Nostalgic Kraft Core Cardstock 12 x 12	Mini Snowflakes Sizzix Alterations Movers & Shaperss by Tim Holtz	Tim Holtz Distress Stickles Dry Glitter Clear Rock Candy	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Aged Mahogany	Tim Holtz Ranger Idea-ology Sanding Grip	Tim Holtz idea-ology Refill Pack for Sanding Grip (4 sheets)	Corner Filigree Metal Pieces	Claudine Hellmuth Multi Medium Matte

Challenge: 12 Tags of Christmas - Funkie Junkie Style - Week #5

Greetings friends, followers and visitors!  I hope you had a fabulous weekend.  Thanks so much for stopping by today and a special thanks to all of you who have been playing in this challenge.  Your pieces are amazing and I am loving visiting your blogs to see your projects close up!

I was busy all day Sunday working on this tag.  #5 gave me fits.  This is not what I started out to create.  I had this awesome (hump, I thought) idea of doing marbled stains with Aged Mahogany, Picket Fence and my beloved Tarnished Brass metallic stain.  I literally marbled 5 tags trying to get the look that I could see in my mind.  Unfortunately my vision never came to fruition ( but I have to say, I have a lot of red embellishments floating around my desk.  Hopefully I will be able to work them into an upcoming tag or two.)  I finally abandoned the reds and went back to this gentle vintage neutral.  Once I let go of my vision, I was able to move forward.

I dug through some old piano music books and found a book of Christmas carols and photocopied The First Noel and cut it into the shape of my jumbo tags.  I did a bit of emboss resist with some TH snowflake stamps and sponged liberally with Vintage Photo DI.  A script stamp was stamped in Jet Black archival on vanilla CS, which was then glued to chipboard.  When the glue dried, I die cut it with the Vintage Noel die and sponged it with Vintage Photo DI.  I went around the edges with a Versamark pen and embossed with a mixture of gold EP and UTEE.  Using more vanilla CS, I cut a distressed doily, sponged it with VPDI and spritzed it with a mixture of water and Vintage Photo reinker in a mini mister.  The filigree metal is from The Funkie Junkie Boutique, the snowflake is felt.

That's it for Tag #5.  I hope you are inspired to play along this week.  You can play in one, many or all of the 12 Tags of Christmas Funkie Junkie Style.  Here are all the challenge "rules", which must be followed to qualify for the prize drawing at the end.

These products used to create this tag are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutiquh.

25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Vintage Noel BIGz Die	Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Mini Paper Rosettes (2 sizes) Die	Mega Filigree Metal Value Set - 18 pieces	Mini Snowflakes Sizzix Alterations Movers & Shaperss by Tim Holtz	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo
Ranger Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink Reinker	Ranger Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (UTEE)	Ranger Embossing Powder - Queen′s Gold	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Odds & Ends	Mini Tickets Sizzix Alterations Movers & Shapers by Tim Holtz	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz On the Edge Die Distressed Doily Die
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Gem Clips	Embroidered Sheer Lace - 1/2 Inch Wide