New Funkie Junkie challenge – Celebrate Friendship

Hello there, our new challenge at the Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog is live and you won't want to miss out! Our hostess is Laura Gilhuly and the theme is Celebrate Friendship. 

I created a birthday card for a good friend of ours. We have known him for decades so he is indeed an "old friend" ha ha. Scroll on to take a peek at some of my design process...

Step 1 - I had some fun creating backgrounds for the various layers. The star layer (which showed through the star cutouts) was Iron Gate Halloween Mica Stain sprayed onto white cardstock. The night sky was an inky combo of Uncharted Mariner Distress Spray (regular and oxide) with a dash of Oxide Villainous Potion spray spritzed in.

Step 2 - I wanted to experiment with using the new Distress Watercolor Pencils for coloring the layers of a Sizzix Colorize Die. I really like the new pencils. I used them to layer on the color and then blended them out with water and a paintbrush. I will definitely be playing more with these great new pencils!

I gave the combined yellow layers a very light mist of Harvest Moon Mica Stain to give it a little glimmer.

Perfect! I'll definitely be using this technique on other layered dies like Otis.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you check out the fun challenges we have on the Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog. They are always good for sparking your creativity! You have two weeks to join the current challenge so I hope you give it a go.

Supplies used:

Tim Holtz die set - Colorize Otis

Tim Holtz die set - Tree Line

Tim Holtz die set - Swirling Stars

Tim Holtz die set - Alphanumeric Label #664177 retired

Distress Watercolor Pencils

Halloween Distress Mica Stain - Iron Gate, Harvest Moon

Distress Oxide Spray Stains - Uncharted Mariner, Villainous Potion

Distress Spray Stains - Uncharted Mariner

Ranger Archival Inks - Black Soot

Distress Collage Medium Matte

Bloom with the Funkie Junkie Challenge

Hello there! It's time for another new challenge over on the Funkie Junkie Challenge Blog! Our hostess is Janna Ketchum and the theme is "April Showers Bring May Flowers".

Janna - Spring has sprung and flowers are blooming. Add flowers to this weeks creation. They can be your main focal point or hiding in the background. Let’s get into the swing of spring with flowers. Happy crafting!

This was the perfect opportunity for me to make a card for my friend's birthday next week.

There are lots of layers, textures, and of course, flowers! I don't have a tutorial for this but I did take an "in process" photo of the background since it ended up mostly covered.

I applied Matte Texture Paste through the stencil onto some canvas type substrate I had in my stash. While the paste was wet, I sprinkled on some Distress Glaze here and there to add some color and texture. (I embossed it when paste was all dry.) After embossing, I spritzed it with Distress Spray Stains and plenty of water so it would all blend and pool around the pasted parts. Fun!

Hot tips on the part I embossed with the 3D Quilted folder:

1. It's super cool and I love that folder! After embossing, I used a Distress Blending Brush with ink to darken the raised areas (stitching) to make the details pop out.

2. I wanted to make it look more like leather. A little bit of Distress Micro Glaze buffed over the inked panel gave it a subtle shine that looks great!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you check out the fun challenges we have on the Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog. They are always good for sparking your creativity! You have two weeks to join the current challenge so I hope you give it a go.

Supplies used:

Tim Holtz die set - Bold Text #1

Tim Holtz die set - Funky Foliage

Tim Holtz die set - Funky Floral, Large

Tim Holtz 3-D Embossing Folders - Quilted

Prima stencil - Bindweed Wallpaper

Tim Holtz Hex Fasteners

Distress Stain - Saltwater Taffy, Vintage Photo, Frayed Burlap, Brushed Corduroy, Old paper, Iced Spruce, Antique Linen

Distress Oxide Stain - Bundled Sage

Distress Glaze - Tattered Rose, Saltwater Taffy

Ranger Texture Paste - matte opaque

Distress Micro Glaze

Birthday Blog Hop!

Welcome and here we go!! Hang on to your hats folks, it's four days of fun and games! And did I mention prizes? It has been an exciting year here at Scrapping Everyday Miracles and we are so glad that you have chosen to explore the miracles with us throughout the year. We have a fun hop planned for you this weekend but that is not all!! We will also have 5 fun and easy challenges that you can enter to win some amazing prizes. The celebration doesn't stop with the blog... on our facebook group ( http://www.facebook.com/groups/200817343359030/ ) we will be offering games each day of the event that will have some fabulous prizes. We will also be posting and discussing the challenges that we created for the Birthday Celebration. We might even sneak in some fun random giveaways.  

So let the Hop begin…
 
Each of the Design Team members and our Guest Design Team members have created a project with a birthday theme. Make sure that you hop along to each blog because you never know where there might be more prizes hiding along the way! In addition to prizes we have a special birthday scavenger hunt for you. On several of the blogs there will be a project photo that has birthday hats hidden in the picture. As you hop through count how many hats you find. When you are finished with the hop write the total number of hats you found in a comment on the Scrapping Everyday Miracles blog hop post. Have fun and happy hopping!  

Find this hat hidden in the projects!

Here is my project, a layout about my oldest son's second birthday. Can you find any hats? ;-)

Our hop grand prize has been provided by Blue Fern Studios…
Blog: http://bluefernstudios.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlueFernStudios

Check out this awesome Grand Prize for the hop...

The hop will remain open until Sunday night, July 14th at midnight PST. 
Remember in order to qualify for our grand prize you must leave a comment on all the blogs.

Nic http://scrapmethis.blogspot.com
Cara http://bitsbaublesandbliss.blogspot.com/
Elizabeth http://www.ejoym.blogspot.com/
Christy  http://creatingwiththegirls.blogspot.com
Kelly http://blsd2scrp.blogspot.com
Helen http://byheleng.wordpress.com/
You are here >>>>Lisa  http://creativejuicefreshsqueezed.blogspot.com/
Tracey http://gracescraps.blogspot.com/2013/07/welcome-to-scrapping-everyday-miracles.html
Jessica http://jessica-createandshare.blogspot.com
Roberta http://thepapercraftingleague.blogspot.com
SEM blog http://scrappingeverydaymiracles.blogspot.com/

Make sure you also stop by our Facebook page for games, challenges and even more prizes.  Winners will be posted on SEM (and on each individual blog that provides RAK) on Wednesday July 17th so don't forget to go see if you won any of the fabulous prizes from our sponsors!  I am also providing a RAK prize so be sure to comment and you might be the lucky winner of my random draw. (Check back here on the 17th!)