Believe in Magic

Happy Wednesday!  I am thrilled to share a special project for the Frilly and Funkie Challenge "Put on Your Inking Cap".  Kathy challenged us to:

"For this challenge we are asking you to create a vintage or shabby chic project without using any designer paper. You can use inks, mists, paints, texture paste, fabric, felt, embossing powders, pencils, markers, pastels, chalks...the sky is the limit! As long as you are not using designer paper on the front of your project, you are golden."

The design team was also lucky enough to have a journal that Eileen Hull generously donated.  The   HeARTfelt Journal cover sets  gave us each a chance to play with a Traveler's Notebook style journal. 

I kept thinking of spring colors and wanted to use my new Distress Oxide inks to do some blending and inking.

I created an ombre effect with wilted violet blending into worn lipstick onto spiced marmalade finishing off with fossilized amber.

I pulled out a variety of pieces all blended with the same colors. I had to pull out a dragonfly stamp which became the inspiration for all the various pieces.

What really happened was I created many orphan bits from trying to design my cover. Which was a lovely surprise because as I opened up the journal and though about the inside I decided to take all the pieces that didn't work for the cover and build out the inside pages.

I love that I could take the leftovers and pull them together with more fun touches and details and add them to the inside.

I folded over some pieces and created a tri-fold and inked up some favorite stamps to add additional images.

I even pulled out the black embossing paste and stenciled bits and pieces in various places.

This  was an excellent way to showcase bits leftover from various projects and to use my favorite sentiments.

I also can add to the journal as the strings/elastic strings used to hold the pages in allow me to expand and add more and more to the journal as the inspiration hits me.

The team will choose their top four picks with the winner being invited to join us in a Guest DT spot here at Frilly and Funkie and the next three will receive 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.

Thanks for stopping by, don't forget to come share your inky projects with us this week!

Suzz

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Adore

Happy Wednesday!  Just playing in the craft room over the past few days and what I was trying to achieve didn't pan out. Instead I ended up creating a tag with with some pretty summery colors.

I am going to continue to explore with my techniques in hopes of getting an end result I like. :)  

This is a mix of distress inks in the background with a stencil laid over the top and more darker distress ink sponged on.

I added a few glossy embossing paste. (Much trickier than the regular embossing paste. (hence the splotchy letters)

I then finished with a stamped image on tissue paper which was decoupaged onto the background.

I am entering this in the A Vintage Journey - Stencil It  challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Live in Bliss

I am playing with purples and oranges!  Tim's tag for November is a lovely fall inspired tag and I had fun playing with the techniques he shared.  Although my tag once again wandered far from his original inspiration.

 Tim started with a paint resist using a stamp.  I used the Tim Holtz Layering stencil - stripes and painted one direction with white acrylic paint and then flipped it and painted the other direction.

His next step after the paint dried was to spritz with Ranger Distress Stain Sprays. That left me lots of choices and I decided to blend orange and purple.  I don't have my carved pumpkin/violet yet so I used the Wild Honey and Seedless Preserves. 

After that dried Tim applied gold foil around the edges.  I added my gold and loved the effect so I kept going with the gold accents. 

I didn't have the pumpkin which Tim cleverly debossed so I decided to pick another focal point and open my drawer of stamps and my eyes fell upon the dragonfly which is one of my favorites.  I stamped that multiple times once to emboss in Queen's Gold and the other on the tag. 

Next up was to cut the word and place it along the bottom.  I varied mine to go with my tag and lacking cork board I used a piece of cardboard.  I decorated it to match the tag.

Products: Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Stripes, Sizzix - Alphabet Dies, Stampers Anonymous - Sentiments, Stampendous - Dragonfly, Seed Beeds, Tsukeniko - Delicata - Gold Glitz, Ranger Distress Stain Sprays - Seedless Preserves, Wild Honey, Seed Beeds, White Acrylic Paint

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Dragonfly Magic

Good Day to you!  I am feeling magical today with a tag that is inspired by a few different challenges.  Anything But Cute has a glorious mood board that is magical,  Words & Paintery has a gorgeous mix of colors and the Mixed Media World is all about the stencil.  How does that all come together?

I started with pulling out all my paints, mists, and sprays in the colors in the challenge.  I then splotched, splattered and misted on the paper. I cut it into pieces one tag and a couple other pieces.  This is the tag: 

 I started with creating a magical environment with the background and a mix of glitter, mica and sequins.

Here are the challenge photos:

 Have a splendid day!

Suzz