Shimmering Summer Fun

Welcome back to a summery Funkie Junkie challenge.   Janna is the host for The Funkie Junkie Challenge ‘Shimmering Summer Fun!’   Here is how she describes the challenge:

"Use bright summer colors in your project and add some shimmer, shine, or sparkle to it. Does summer make you think of sparkling blue oceans, family vacations, or flowers in full bloom? We want to know, so add some shimmer to your cards, tags, scrapbook pages, and journal spreads. Happy crafting!"

I decided some beautiful yellows, oranges and white would bring on the heat.

I created a vignette shrine with some beautiful shimmery summery background.

I used a mix of inks to ink up a watercolor paper background and line the inside of the shrine.

The flowers were also cut from the same background paper and the paper flowers were dipped and soaked in the inky goodness. 

For my shimmer I added splatters of shimmery white spray and little gems.  I hope this has you inspired to play along with us!

The overall winner will be offered the 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 be entered into the drawing 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.

 

Keep cool! 

 

Suzz

 

Products: 

• Sizzix - Flower Field 
• Ranger Ink Spray - Crackling Campfire 
• Ranger Ink Spray - Mustard Seed
• Dylusions - Shimmer spray - White linen
• Tim Holtz Watercolor Cardstock 
• Idea-Ology - Clipping Sticker Book
  
• Advantus - Tim Holtz Paper Dolls
• Idea-Ology Tim Holtz Transparent Butterflies
• Gems 
• Idea-Ology Bouquet of Flowers
• Idea-Ology - Vignette Shrine (The store is out of the shrine but did have the wooden boxes)
  

 

 

Live by the Sun

I am back!  I wanted to share the second card inspired by the Summertime challenge at Frilly and Funkie.

This one started with the same background and circle of the first card I shared earlier this week. But I wanted to use the sweet fairy from the Masquerade stamps from Graphic 45.

I tried to make her effervescent by stamping her skirt and wings onto acetate with StazOn and then painting the backside with the pretty gold shimmery paint.

I was thinking midnight on a summer night with the fairies dancing and the flowers appear to be black with the moon behind them.

Happy Friday!

Suzz

Golden Summer

Hello!  I am back finally with a quick card for the Monochromatic challenge at A Vintage Journey.  I am working on a second monochromatic card. (So stay tuned)  This also reflects how our summer fun happens around here. Lot's of outside gardening with many birds chirping and sharing their nests in our trees.  The Anything But Cute Challenge is Summer Fun.

The birds are cooing, singing, chirping and crowing all night and day around here.  It starts in the spring and continues through the summer. 

I decided that  yellow was a happy color to use for my monochromatic colors.  I started with the mini stencil and sprayed a mix of the mustard seed, squeezed lemonade, fossilized amber over the stencil to get my fun circles. I then stamped the bird and colored with the same spray colors.  I have pieces of bark off the trees on my desk in a bowl and thought it would be fun to use behind the bird.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

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Golden Days

It's Funkie time over at the Frilly and Funkie Challenge blog.  Sue's challenge for us is  Let the words do the talking.  The challenge is to use words and sayings that mean a lot to you and inspire you. I am thrilled because using words and verses is one of my all time favorite things in my art. 

This design started from wanting to layer some vintage papers together on a background and to use the Wings beautiful sentiment from Impression Obsession by Yvonne Blair.  

The background started from a piece of paper bag. I received this paper as part of the packaging used to wrap up my goodies from the Funkie Junkie Boutique.  I held onto it because it was a lovely surface.  I ripped a piece of this to put on chipboard.  I then layered it up with a vintage piece of music along with pieces of tissue tape randomly placed.  I used a few vintage stamps in the mix as well.

after that I coated it with a white wash of paint mixed with lots of water to give it a translucency when applied.

I then sprinkled, splattered and sponged on a mix of browns and golds over the background to give a lovely distressed effect.  I used Wendy Vecchi's awesome gold embossing paste to add a touch of texture with the layering stencil.

The butterfly was cut and embossed from white cardstock.  He was died in brown and then gold paint was brushed over his surface.  I added a edge of chunky bronze glass glitter around the edges and his body.

Then I die cut the flowers and gave them the same treatment of the brown stain with gold highlights.

The sentiment was stamped on a scrap of the paper bag material and given some sprinkling and splattering as well.

The Design Team will choose their top four picks with the winner being invited to join us in a Guest DT spot 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.  The Boutique has an extensive section of clearance items because the shop just moved and has an excess of inventory. There are so many good deals you won't want to miss out.

Hop over to the Frilly and Funkie blog to see the rest of the Design Teams awesome creations!

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Sizzix Alternations Tim Holtz Bigz Die with Texture Fade - Layered Butterfly	Sizzix Thinlits Die Set - Wildflowers by Tim Holtz 661190 (February Pre-Order)	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Industrial THS051 (February Pre-Order)	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - Gold	Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Metallic Gold
Ranger Tim Holtz Ground Espresso Distress Spray Stain	DYLUSIONS PAINTS, WHITE LINEN	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Tarnished Brass	Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Vintage Photo
Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Pad #3	Prima Marketing Salvage District Brads (March Pre-order)	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Design Tape, Elements	Medium Weight 12x12" Chipboard (12 Sheets)

Skating Along

The  Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #17  is a summer inspired challenge.  I loved the pretty fun colors on the challenge image which inspired my color for my summery gift bag.

We used to skate in summer and winter. The old roller rink was good fun and provided a social outlet for tweens and teens.. 

Lots of pink and blues on my bag as well as strips of stamped papers in the background. 

I painted the bag using pink acrylic paint and sponged the edges with ink after it dried.  I stamped the polka dots and stripes on scraps of cardstock. I tore them up and layered them in the background.  

I stamped the stars and cut them out and randomly scattered them  around the background.  I stamped the skates and colored them with watercolor pencils.  I sponged he edges with pink and brown dye ink. 

Products: Darkroom Door - Texture Dots, Weathered Stripes, Eclectic Stamps - Roller Skates, Wordstrips, Brushed Christmas Volume 1, Ranger Paint Dabber - Pink, Picket Fence

Have a wonderful day! 

Suzz