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
