Funkie Frilly Valentines

 Happy Wednesday!   The new Funkie Junkie Boutique Challenge is all about the Valentine!  The challenge is called Funkie Frilly Valentine!  Janna is hosting and she has asked us to create a frilly or funkie valentine.  

I was inspired by paper bag hearts!  I had a lunch bag sitting on my desk to be recycled and decided to hand draw some hearts and cut them out. 

After I had those paper bag hearts I just started playing with mediums and ended up here: 

I started by taking the paper hearts and spraying them with a mix of pink distress stain spray and antique linen.

After that dried I splattered with some white paint mixed with some water to thin the paint.  I let that dry and embossed the entire heart with clear embossing powder.  It gave the paper bag a beautiful translucent effect. 

After that I pulled out the beautiful gold leaf metallic effect from Prima Marketing.  This was embossed into the hearts to add a beautiful gold effect.  

I paired up the various hearts and created backgrounds using layering stencils and distress inks.

I hope this has you inspired to share with us your Funkie or Frilly Valentines!  Come join 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 - Antique Linen, Vintage Photo
• Ranger Distress Oxide Ink - Victorian Velvet
• Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Kitsch Flamingo, Antique Linen
• Versamark Watermark Ink 
• Ranger Clear Embossing Powder
• Twine
• Deep Ivory Mulberry Paper Aster Flowers
• Stampers Anonymous - Tiny Text
• Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Valentine
• Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Script
• Prima Metallic Flakes 
• Dina Wakley White Acrylic Paint
• Ranger White Embossing Powder 
• Idea-Ology Tim Holtz Adornments - Hearts
  

Vintage Valentine

Hi!  Welcome back!  Today I am sharing my project for the new challenge "Love is All Around Us" at the Funkie Junkie Boutique hosted by the fabulous Jenny! Here is how she describes the challenge:

" With Valentines Day approaching it's time to share a little love. Create something vintage or shabby chic featuring hearts. Here's a few ideas to get you started;" 

I love hearts on my art and this had me inspired looking for ways to create vintage hearts. 

 I started with a page out of an old ledger book.  It became a masterboard sheet that I cut up into hearts and my background.

I splattered, stamped and stenciled with white embossing pasted.  I added strips of design tape before I stenciled.  I let the embossing paste dry and then sponged over with a layer of gold ink.

I hand cut the hearts out with my scissors and sponged the edges. 

I made some gold roses using the Prima Marketing mould with gold embossing paste.  I let it set overnight and popped out the roses.

I also used newsprint to create a multi-layered heart.

I hand cut a series of hearts from newsprint with the largest being cardstock.  I died them all with distress inks and then embossed them with words and white embossing paste.  Then they were died again with inky goodness. 

I finished by stitching them together with a few cross stitches and a few buttons. 

I hope this has you inspired to get your hearts out and play along!  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:
Ranger Distress Ink Sprays - Antique Linen,  Ground Espresso
Ranger Distress Oxide Ink Spray - Picked Raspberry
Ranger Distress Ink - Ground Espresso, Antique Linen
Idea-Ology - Paper Dolls
Idea-Ology Metallic Quotation Stickers
Ranger Layering Stencils - Sparkle,  Valentine
Wendy Vecchi  Embossing Paste Gold, White
Wendy Vecchi NewsPrint 
Stampers Anonymous - Etcetera 
Prima Marketing Moulds
Delicata Gold Ink
Idea-Ology - Design Tape Salvage 
Sizzix Tim Holtz Chapter 2 Crochet