This Happened!

 New stamps!  Yay!  Darkroom Door just released a new set of stamps and I was lucky enough to get to play with some of them!  

I played with the new small stamps called This Happened. It has great sentiments that inspire scrapbooking and journalling including: This Happened, Here's the Story, For the Record.

I used another of the new backgrounds to create a moroccon tiles pattern in the background and framed the edges with book inspired stamps.  

I then added a frame for the middle to allow me to journal or put a photo on the page.   I was thinking about spending a day just reading books. 

I accented the colors with the salvaged patina ink.  I created a multiple page mini book on the front to allow dates or other little notes! 

I hope you love the story I shared today! :) 

Suzz

Products: 

• Darkroom Door Small Stamps This Happened
• Darkroom Door Background Stamp - Morrocan Tile
• Darkroom Door - Robin
• Darkroom Door Rubber Stamps - Library
• Darkroom Door Rubber Stamps - Bookworm
• Darkroom Door Frame Stamp - Open Book
• Darkroom Door - Book Stack
• Darkroom Door Rubber Stamp - Tick Tock

Read any Good Books Lately?

Happy Wednesday!  Are you feeling funkie?  It is time for the Funkie Design Team to share thir projects at the Frilly and Funkie Challenge for the "Read any Good Books Lately" challenge hosted by the wonderfully creative Sara Emily.

Sara Emily challenged us with:  "Reading a good book on the beach or on the porch is a simple summer pleasure. For this challenge, please create a vintage or shabby chic project that depicts a favorite book or use book pages on your project, alter a book or even make a journal or journal page! Just be sure it's in the vintage or shabby chic style that we are looking for!"

I just left the library the other day with a huge stack of books which I have been working my way through!  I am always looking for damaged, or distraught books to up-cycle into my art.  I used a slightly older dictionary page as the base for my project today.  

If you are observant you will notice there are a few holes on either side of my tiny house.  There is a reason for that and I will be sharing that later this week over on the F&F blog with a full step by step and a few other fun pages.

At the end of the challenge the team will choose their top four picks. Our first place winner will be invited to join us for a Guest Designer spot here at Frilly and Funkie. Three additional talented participants will receive badges to display on their blogs. Everyone who enters and adheres to the challenge guidelines will be entered into a drawing to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique!

Please hop over and check out the entire DT projects as they are all fabulous!  I hope you are inspired to play along with us!

Suzz 

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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Tropical Seahorse

Howdy!  I am sharing today my Funkie DT project for the Frilly and Funkie "Out of the Cold" Challenge.   Cec is hosting the challenge and here is what she said about the challenge:  "It is winter and that means snow and cold in so many places so let's head to the tropics. Create any vintage or shabby chic project that will make us feel warm - think lots of sunshine, bright colours, flora and fauna and even animals hiding in the rain forest."

Well, I took her words to heart and channeled the warm tropical winds and here is what happened...

I started from these pretty Wendy Vecchi flowers and made a large batch of them. I like fussy cutting and cut them out while watching t.v. with the hubby.   If you like to fussy cut with scissors like me I want to recommend getting the mini scissors.  I have about 4 pairs.  I keep one just for my ribbon, thread, or material and the others for cutting paper.  They make such a difference when cutting if you have a smaller pair of scissors to navigate through the intricate designs or small spaces.

I stamped them with black archival ink on mixed media paper.  I then sprayed them with distress stain spray. I started with Squeezed Lemonade but decided I needed a stronger color and loaded them up with Abandoned Coral.

 I wanted something summery to go with my flowers and I looked through my dies and the seahorse caught my eye.  I cut multiples of him as well as pulling out some previously cut horses. 

They all got a special treatment of crackle embossing paste through the harlequin mini stencil.  While it was wet I tried a variety of colors but loved the orange and yellow mix the best. I left them soaked to dry with all the color pooling up in areas.  I came back later and heat dried the embossing paste to get even more bubbling and texture.

I then cut out a variety of leaves and branches which were sprayed with a mix of yellow, green and blue.  I then laid a big sheet of mixed media paper over it and got the cool background you can see with the reverse image of the branches.

 I had so many extra seahorses and flowers I set up journal page with all my leftover bits. Our weather this week has been tremendous for February and this challenge fits right in with the great weather we are having.

Come play along with us and share your warmth with us in the challenge.   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.

Sending you warm tropical breezes...

Suzz

Products:

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Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Mini Layering Stencils - Set 9 THMST009 (March Pre-Order)	Sizzix Alternations Tim Holtz Thinlits Dies - Holiday Greens	Tim Holtz Tonic Studios Mini Scissors