How Scary is that?

Back for some scary inspiration?  The Funkie Junkie Inspiration Ave is focused this time on scary inspiration from the new releases for Halloween!  

The inspiration for me was the spooky skeleton from the Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz The Obscure stamp set.  His creepy blank stare had me thinking of ways to showcase him on a few cards.

I decided to cut him out and open up the empty places on the skull by cutting them out with detail scissors.  I then folded the image slightly to give it space behind the skull.

Than it was all about the fun inky backgrounds made from the mica stain sprays.  I mixed a variety of colors together and used them on the background of the card and for the feathers.

The feathers were die cut from the backgrounds and then staggered on the headdress.  The headdress was also bowed outwards to give space to overlap on the skull.

The other background was made with the textured fade cracked embossing folder with a mix of mica stain sprays to give the beautiful golden brown background. 

I hope you enjoyed the scare! 

Suzz

Products: 

• Sizzix Tim Holtz Feathery
• Sizzix Tim Holtz Texture Fade - Cracked
  
• Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz The Obscure 
• Ranger Distress Mica Halloween Stain #5
• Ranger Distress Mica Halloween Stain #4
• Ranger Distress Mica Holiday Stain #3
  
• Stampers Anonymous - Halloween Tiny Text
• Ranger Clear Embossing Powder
• Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black
• Ranger Archival Ink - Olive
• Prima Marketing Spring Crystal
• Idea-Ology Tim Holtz Branches and Spiders
  

Cut it Out!

 Hi!  The Funkie Junkie Boutique Inspiration Ave is focusing on the cool new Sizzix Tim Holtz Die Cuts!  I had a little fun creating some Halloween cards with the new die cuts! 

I love when the trick or treat starts and all the kids run around in their costumes!  These adorable kids out trick or treating was very fun to play with.

I wanted to highlight them with a little color behind them with a watercolor pencil.  I also added some white lines on the black backdrop to give them movement. 

I paired them with a stamped background to give them a backdrop to shine against.  After I tried that I needed a little moonshine to help them on their way!   A sponged moon with Mr. Owl watching over them set the perfect scene! 

In my second card I used the Boo die cut as a mask and sponged all over it to create a background.

After the background was sponged I stamped over in the same pretty die ink to give it texture.  I then used the cute witch in my die cut Halloween!

You can see I even used a little splattering of the new mica stain sprays over the background! 

For my final card I mixed and matched the two dies 

The background was stamped and sponged to coordinate with the Boo die cut.  I layered it onto the background die but cut out the letters to highlight the background. 

The new dies are fun and have me inspired for the cooler fall weather! 

Suzz

Products: 

• Sizzix Tim Holtz Big Frights
• Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits Halloween Night
• Sizzix Thinlits Dies - Alphanumeric Theory
• Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz - Poisonous
  
• Ranger Distress Oxide Ink - Wilted Violet
• Ranger Seasonal Mica Stain Sprays #6
• Ranger Distress Oxide Ink - Squeezed Lemonade
• Ranger Distress Oxide Ink - Carved Pumpkin

Back To School

 Well hello there!  I can't believe it is September already!  Teri set the challenge this time at The Funkie Junkie Boutique and she has us thinking about back to school! 

Here is how she described the challenge: "Create something with books, alphabets or anything reminding you of learning!"

I started with the idea of vintage school days but ended up somewhere completely different. :)  

Well... I was thinking that witches had to go to school too?  

I took a children's book that was already torn and in sad shape and painted the front and back with white gesso. 

I added a layer of distress crackle paste through the ruler stencil.  Let that dry and then added some color with the antique linen and black soot distress sprays.

That made me thinking of Halloween and then I decided we were going to make a book for witches to go to school. 

Why not a book with enhchanted spells that they can learn!  There was a lot of embossing, spraying and painting in this fun book. 

Come play along with us in the challenge.  The overall winner will be offered the chance to be a Guest Designer at a future date at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog, and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the drawing for the chance to win a $25.00 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. There are also Top 3 Badges for three additional outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team.

 Thanks for stopping by!

 

Suzz 

Products: 

• Ranger Distress Ink Spray - Black Soot
• Ranger Distress Oxide Ink Spray - Antique Linen
• Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Measured
• Ranger Distress Crackle Paste Opaque
• Seth Apter Baked Velvet Neutral Pack
• Versamark Watermark Ink 
• Idea-Ology Tim Holtz Design Tape Trims
• Prima Marketing Flowers
  

Grunge, Ghouls, or Giggles?

Welcome back to another Funkie Junkie Boutique Challenge!  The challenge this time is Grunge, Ghouls, or Giggles! 

Here is the description of the challenge:

"Halloween is just around the corner and this week we are getting our hands dirty. Will your makes be frightful and ghoulish or will they be cute and get giggles? Add a touch of grunge to your makes. Cards, décor, scrapbook pages, journal spreads, we want to see it all. We will be most Distressed if you miss out on the spooky cute Halloween fun! Happy crafting!"

 I thought it would be fun to play with some beautiful cathedral windows and make an Arch ATC. I mixed a variety of the seasonal mica sprays, Idea-Ology Layers Halloween Ephemera with some beautiful flowers to make a few different ATCs. 

 

 I first die cut about 4 different arches in white cardstock and kraft cardstock. I ended up cutting some additional backing or structure from a thin cardboard.  I then Sprayed, Sponged, and embossed each one in different shades of gold, brown, and black. 

 

 I embossed the arch with a mix of gold embossing powder and brown glaze embossing.  I sprayed the flowers with a mix of the mica sprays.  I then stamped the sentiments and embossed the key to coordinate. 

The owl fit the sentiment perfectly and made me laugh.  I mixed it with a few of the idea-ology ephemera and more flowers sprayed with a mix of inky sprays. 

Come share your Halloween inspiration with us at the Funkie Junkie Boutique! The overall winner will be offered the chance to be a Guest Designer at a future date at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog, and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the drawing for the chance to win a $25.00 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. There are also Top 3 Badges for three additional outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Products: 

• Sizzix Bigz Cathedral Window
• Idea-Ology - Layers Halloween Ephemera
• Ranger Seasonal Mica Stain Sprays 1 
• Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black
• Idea-Ology - Hook and Clasps
• Ranger - Aged Mahogany Distress Ink, Spray 
• Idea-Ology - Adornments Heart & Key
• Ranger - Ground Espresso - Ink, Spray
• Wire
• Ranger Gold Embossing Powder
• Walnut Stain - Embossing Glaze 
• Ranger - Tarnished Brass

Purple, Orange, Green! Eek! It's Halloween!

 Howdy!  It is time for another Funkie Junkie Boutique challenge!  Sara Emily has us creating for Halloween this time around with the Purple, Orange, Green! Eek! It's Halloween! challenge!  Here is how she describes the challenge: 

 " I love Halloween, and I would love to see your vintage or shabby chic Halloween creations, whether it be a card, tag, canvas, or any other make! If Halloween is not your cup of tea, simply use the colors purple, orange and green on your project to play along."

I have anxiously awaiting these flowers from the new Stampers Anonymous Dearly Departed set.  I could envision them cut out and colored.

 I decided to create a Halloween card for my daughter.  I started with stamping the flowers twice in black ink.  I colored with watercolor pencils and waterbrush.  I colored with dye inks on another set which was a softer effect.  

I inked up the background stamp with crackling campfire with a spritz of shimmery pearl and created a background.  I then colored some baubles with copic markers and added them for accents.

These flowers are beautiful and can be used for so many different projects, here is how it looks without the sentiment.

Please come join us in the fun and share your Halloween project! The winner will earn a chance to be a Guest Designer at a future date at The Funkie Junkie Boutique blog, and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the draw for the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. There are also Top 3 Badges for three additional outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team.

Thanks for stopping by! 

 Suzz

Products: 

• Stampers Anonymous - Dearly Departed
• Stampers Anonymous - Tapestry 
• Stampers Anonymous - Halloween 
• Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black
• Ranger Distress Oxide Ink - Crackling Campfire
• Seth Apter Inkz Spray Antique Pearl 
• Prima Marketing Memory Hardware
• Copic Marker 

Halloween Fun!

Time for a new challenge at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Challenge!  The talented Sara Emily has challenged us this time with It's Halloween!

Here is how she described the challenge:

"I love Halloween! With Halloween just a few weeks away, I challenge you to create a vintage or shabby chic project with a Halloween theme. Your project can be as silly or creepy as you like, but just have fun!"

I started working on tags and cards with the intent of making a spooky card.  But instead I went shopping. :) 

I like browsing at home decor stores because I get inspiration that I want to go home and try to create. :)  This time it was a beautiful pumpkin covered in corn husk textured flowers.  It was all neutral but I couldn't get over the texture on the pumpkin. 

 I hurried home to try to create many many roses. :)  I cut about 30 pine cones from some scrap paper used to wrap up items from the store.  It is like a heavy newsprint.  I wanted something with some texture. 

 After I cut all the flowers and leaves I laid them out on my craft mat and gave them a coat of gesso.  I was hoping it would help give more firmness to the flowers / leaves and soften the effect of the sprays. 

Next was to let them dry and clean up the paint. After they dried I sprayed all the flowers with a mix of Fired Brick and Fossilized Amber. 

I let them all dry again and stamped them with black ink using the Glorious Bouquet stamp.  The stamping was imperfect and partial in places which works fine because of the shaping of the flowers.

Next I got the glue gun out and made the roses. 

I sprayed the leaves with a mix of ground espresso and peeled paint. 

The pumpkin I purchased was a white pumpkin.  I gave it a coat of gesso and then sprayed it with abandoned coral distress spray ink. 

I used hot glue to apply the roses along the side  and sprinkled in a mix of the leaves.  In doing so it left the glue strings all over the roses.  I decided to leave it to give it the webby effect from my spider. 

I added a coat of frosted crystal embossing powder over the surface of the roses and the pumpkin.  I took the versamark embossing powder and sponged it all over everything and then coated the entire project with the embossing powder.  I heat set it. 

To finish off the project a little black bird, spider and charm.

Come join in the fun and share your Halloween inspired art!   The winner will earn a chance to be a Guest Designer at a future date here at The Funkie Junkie Boutique blog, and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the draw for the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. There are also Top 3 Badges for three additional outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Products (Linked to the Funkie Junkie Boutique)
Sizzix Tattered Pine Cone Die
Ranger Distress Oxide Sprays - Peeled Paint, Fired Brick, Fossilized Amber 
Ranger Distress Spray - Ground Espresso, Abandoned Coral 
Ranger - Embossing Antiquities - Frosted Crystal Embossing Powder 
Idea-Ology - Tim Holtz Adornments Halloween Words
Silvertone Spider Charms
Stampers Anonymous - Glorious Bouquet 
Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black
Dina Wakely Mediums - White Gesso 

Haunted Halloween

Happy Wednesday!  Time for a funkie challenge reveal on the Frilly and Funkie Challenge blog!  The challenge this time is "Haunted Halloween" hosted by none other than the talented Jenny Marples!

Here is how she describes the challenge:

" It's time to get your freak on and go all out for Halloween. We want to see your ghouls and ghosts and things that go bump in the night. It's going to be spooktacular!!!"

How can you resist that!  Especially with Halloween just around the corner.

I have been waiting to use the new Mr. Bones set from Stampers Anonymous and pulled out the skull to ink up first! 

I have so many different backgrounds laying around from various projects that I try to use them whenever I can.  This particular scrap was for a project for my daughter and she didn't like the effect.  I kind of thought Day of the Dead and would work well with Mr. Bones.

I added a touch of script on the top half of the page with the stamp inked up once and stamped many times to get the uneven faint script.

I then stamped Mr. Bones and embossed him in black embossing powder.  I added highlights with a gold gel pen.

I then stamped the banner and the circle frame on white cardstock with black ink.  They also were embossed with black embossing powder.

I used a leftover rosette from my witch's wand project.  I stamped the number 31 using gold ink and outlined with a watercolor pencil. I stamped the circle around the numbers and cut out with a die.

When I had the top half of the card laid out I realized I needed something on the bottom. Lucky for me I had a ton of remnant rubs for halloween with the different sized spiders which creepily crawl along the bottom half of my card.

I hope this has inspired you to get your haunt on!  Come play along with us!  The winner will earn the chance of a Guest Designer spot at Frilly and Funkie, and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the draw for the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. And there are Top 3 Badges for three further outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team!

Happy haunting!

Suzz

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Haberdashery

Happy Wednesday!  Today I am sharing a creation for the latest Frilly and Funkie challenge hosted by the creative and inspiring Zoe called "Haberdashery".

She describes the challenge as:

"A haberdasher is a person who sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons, ribbons and zippers. For this challenge create a vintage or shabby chic project including items found at a Haberdashery."

I was inspired the thought of buttons and threads.  I was thinking about Halloween and the finery a witch would be wearing for the holiday. 

 I started with cutting out a few ice skates from the Tim Holtz Ice Skates.  I had a vision that if I removed the skate blades they would make some cool boots! 

 All it took was a little snip snip and I had some wonderful witch boots.  I stamped over them with a text stamp and then sponged them with a nice coat of black soot distress oxide.  I laced them up with some string (died to coordinate) and tied them off with some fun buttons.  I then decided they needed a shiny coat on the tips and the heels.  I masked them off and sponged versamark.  (I did this after the dye ink had set for awhile.  If you can't wait you have to heat set the dye ink before doing this or your black embossing powder can stick elsewhere. :)

The hat was something I drew up after looking online for some inspiration.  I wanted it to look a little bit like the sorting hat in Harry Potter.

I stamped the background with a different stamp from the Etcetera stamps.  The backrgound is a mix of orange and black inked Halloween stamp.

You have another week to join us in the fun!  The winner will earn the chance of a Guest Designer spot at Frilly and Funkie, and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the draw for the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. And there are Top 3 Badges for three further outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team, because choosing just one winner is so hard!

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

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