She Who Stamps & Scraps

Favorite Projects of 2012

Thanks to all who visit for your comments and support over the past year. I appreciate each of you and wish you all the best in the coming year. It's been a delight getting together with many of you in 'real life' this past year, and I can't wait to see who I'll have the pleasure to meet in 2013!

Here are some of my favorite projects from 2012. First, some art journal pages and canvases:

And some favorite tags:

     

        

     

   

           

       

I wish you a wonderful New Year, filled with much health, happiness, and creativity!

Marjie

A Fond Farewell to Frilly & Funkie

This is my last project as a design team member with Frilly and Funkie, and I want to thank Linda and all my DT buddies for their support, friendship, and encouragement over these last nine months.  I've loved being part of this team!

The current challenge ("Make it a Tag - Winter or Christmas") is hosted by Terry.  I decided to make a jumbo pocket tag using Tim Holtz's Snowflake On-the-Edge die.  I used the Snowflake Texture Fade to emboss my XL tags.  I was careful in placing my old book page upside down so the music would be in the right direction when I folded it over as a flap.

I used a few wintery stamps and lots of Tim's Idea-ology: Adage Tickets, Muse Token, Brads and Metal Corners.  A strip of Linda's white corrugated cardboard (colored with a light rub of Antique Linen and Vintage Photo Distress Inks) finishes it off.

I used the Vintage Photo to highlight the raised snowflakes, too.  Please join us at Frilly and Funkie to see what the design team has created and then add your tag to the challenge... it's open through Christmas Day.

Thanks for visiting!

Marjie

Frilly & Funkie - A Light in the Darkness

Rebecca Primrose is hosting the current challenge at Frilly and Funkie, and she asks us to create with light in mind. I thought I'd try to get into the holiday spirit with some of my favorite Tim Holtz holiday ATC-sized stamps.  I used distress markers and distress inks to color these, after first stamping in jet black archival.  

I restamped the faces onto Specialty Stamping Paper (Ranger) and used the picket fence marker to color the hair and beards.  I used a strip of Linda's corrugated cardboard, dyed some ribbon with distress stain, and attached some of Tim's Idea-ology.  

The little lantern is another ATC-sized stamp, which I colored with distress markers and then heat embossed with clear powder. Three little stars from stash.

That's it for me!  Hope you will join us at Frilly and Funkie.  Though Linda's shop is temporarily closed due to her move, we are still issuing a $25 gift certificate to her shop for a random winner (redeemable upon reopening in January) as well as a blog badge for the design team favorite.

I'll also enter this at Our Creative Corner (Santa) and Try it on Tuesday (Inky).

Many thanks for the visit.

Marjie

The Kathryn Wheel, Part 11

Time to share my November page for Kate Crane's calendar project. I've used Tim Holtz's Faux Embossed Metal technique on this one, with lots of Perfect Pearls Mists from Ranger. In fact, pearls are the theme right now over at Simon Says Stamp & Show.

The shine on this one is pretty intense. I used Tim's Sizzix ticket dies and stamps on grey card stock to tone it down a bit. I have a full tutorial featured over on the Frilly and Funkie blog today showing how it came together.

Here's October all finished:

Power's still out. The President declared our county a disaster area yesterday which should help in getting help/restoration.  

Thanks so much for the visit. I appreciate it!

Marjie

 

Ranger Perfect Pearls Mists - Pewter	Ranger Perfect Pearls Mists - Blue Patina	Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Harlequin Border Die	Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Ticket Die	Sizzix Alternations Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Ornamental Die
Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Odds & Ends	Tim Holtz Sizzix Texture Fades - Rays and Retro Circles Set	Tim Holtz Sizzix Texture Fades - Collage & Notebook Set	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Pitch Black
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tiny Attacher	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tiny Attacher Refills

Frilly & Funkie Challenge: Hide It

 

The current challenge at Frilly and Funkie is Anything but a Card ~ With a Twist... you need to hide something somewhere on your piece.  I'll admit, that gave me pause but I like it when challenges do that. On Monday I saw that Wendy Vecchi is the focus at Simon Says Stamp and Show this week, and her funky crowned lady came right to mind. I double stamped the crown and used a brad to make it a moving part to reveal my hidden word:

The tag is colored with distress stain and distress inks, and has lots of Wendy's background stamps and some stencils on it. I used Tim' Idea-ology word band on the bottom (colored with paint) and a Chitchat sticker for the word on her crown (colored with distress inks.)  

I stamped the face/crown on Ranger's Specialty Stamping Paper and colored it with distress inks.  I sprayed Linda's jute mesh with Dylusions Ink Sprays, as well as the seam binding serving as ribbon on top.  The blue flowers are oldies from my stash that now match my tag thanks to dusty concord distress ink.

Please pop on over to Frilly and Funkie and see what the other design team members have been up to and the jump in and join us... there's a random $25 merchandise credit to Linda's Funkie Junkie Boutique for a random winner, and a blog badge for the design team favorite.

Thanks for the visit!

Marjie 

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Word Bands	Burlap String - 12 Colors	Jute Mesh (Burlap) Ribbon	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Chitchat Stickers	Ranger Tim Holtz Spring Seasonal Distress Ink Pads
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Tumbled Glass	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Dusty Concord	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Black Soot	Dyan Reaveley′s Dylusions Ink Spray - London Blue	Dyan Reaveley′s Dylusions Ink Spray - Crushed Grape

Tutorial ~ Building a Halloween Layout with Sizzix Texture Fades

Thanks for stoping by today! It's my turn to host the Friday Focus at Frilly and Funky, and this week "seasonal" Alterations (Dies and Texture Fades) are discounted in Linda's shop, The Funkie Junkie Boutique. I've used the Sizzix Halloween Texture Fades - Backgrounds & Borders set.

I started with a piece of paper that I wanted to jazz up a bit with some inking and stamping. This little guy is almost fifteen years old now... the days are long but the years are short!

I ran a small piece of the green paper through my Vagabond (any diecutting machine will work) with the Fade, and I wanted to point out how helpful it is to use a shim. On the left is one I cut without a shim, and on the right is one cut with one: 

        

Big difference, right? This paper is so thin that the Fade cut through in places, showing the white core. A shim is just a little cushion that makes for a slightly softer and smoother cut. I usually just fold a piece of leftover printer paper into fourths and put it right behind my patterned paper.  

Remember that with the Fades, you can use just parts of them as well as the whole. The one I used has twelve words as well as the number 31... lots of possibilities. I often use scraps to get just a part of a Fade. Here I went for the '31' section and you can see my shim sticking out a bit beneath the green paper:

I decided I wanted more contrast for the page so I went with orange instead, and added some text paper and a black mat. After distressing the edges, I cut a window to fit my picture, making the Fade into a frame:

             

Back to customizing my paper, I used Tim's spiderweb mask with black soot distress ink, and then cut another strip of the green paper and ran my distress ink pad directly across the raised edges to make those letters pop:

 

            

I added the 'trick-or-treat' strip to the bottom of the paper and cut a Mini Ticket to use as a journaling spot for the date. I colored it with different distress inks and embellished it with a metal charm, one of Tim's file tabs, a ribbon scrap and the year (diecut from the Sizzix Typeset die). After stamping a black cat, I added some Dusty Attic barbed wire chipboard, painted with Ranger's black paint dauber and attached with Tim's Tiny Attacher.

Thanks again for the visit. Be sure to stop by Linda's shop to see all the Seasonal Alterations on sale (including Halloween, Autumn, Winter, and Christmas.)

I'll link this to the Halloween theme at Paper Issues and the Dies/Punches challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

Hope you have a great weekend!

Marjie 

 

Products used:

Tim Holtz Sizzix Texture Fades - Halloween Background and Borders Set	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Halloween Silhouettes	Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Alphabet Die - Typeset	Tim Holtz Idea-ology File Tabs	Mini Tickets Sizzix Alterations Movers & Shapers by Tim Holtz
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Spiced Marmalade	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Dusty Concord	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Mustard Seed	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Black Soot	Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Pitch Black
Claudine Hellmuth Multi Medium Matte	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Base Tray	Ranger Inkssentials Ink Blending Tool-With 2 Blending Foams	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tiny Attacher	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tiny Attacher Refills

Frilly & Funkie: Art Journal Page

This week at Frilly and Funkie our challenge is to use tags in unusual ways and include a Halloween or Autumn theme. Any altered tag project is welcome, as long as you do something a little different and include the seasonal theme. There's a $25 gift certificate to The Funkie Junkie Boutique for a random winner, and a blog badge for the design team favorite. I hope you'll join us!

I recently took a class with Julie Fei-Fen Balzer and was inspired by a page in her journal where she embedded three tags like this. (Incidentally, if you can ever take one of Julie's classes.... do!  I've taken several of her classess both online and in-person and have never been disappointed.)

I cut off half a page and laid the tags onto the remaining (still in the book) piece at varied depths. I then glued the cut-off half page back on top, sandwiching the tags. Then covered everything with gesso. After brayering over the solid part of the page, I weighted it down and let it dry overnight. 

     

I adhered Tim Holtz's Tissue Wrap to the whole page and spritzed Color Wash in some places. When it was dry, I stamped and stenciled with Ranger's Distress and Archival inks, then tied on Tim's Idea-ology word charms with burlap string. I'm joining the Ranger distress ink challenge with this project, too.

I stamped the witch onto plain white tissue paper and adhered her with matte medium. Before adhering the house (stamped on manila and colored with Distress Markers), I inked all the edges with black paint and coated the whole page with matte medium to dull the shine from the alpha stickers. The arrows are rub-ons and I also added some ribbon and a decorative paper strip.

Can't wait to see what you'll do differently with a tag this week... pop on over to Frilly and Funkie to see all the design team samples, and join us for this fun challenge.

Marjie 

 

Products used:

Tim Holtz idea-ology Tissue Wrap - Terminology	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Tag and Bookplates Die	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Halloween Silhouettes	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Markers - Set of 37
Burlap String - 12 Colors	Dyan Reaveley′s Dylusions Stencil - Letter Jumble (9x12)	Dyan Reaveley′s Dylusions Stencil - Dotted Flowers (9x12)	Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Pitch Black
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Barn Door	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Crushed Olive	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Rusty Hinge	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Frayed Burlap
Ranger Archival Ink - Vermillion	Ranger Archival Ink - Olive	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Archival Ink - Sepia
Adirondack Color Wash Dye 2 Ounce Spray - Lettuce	Adirondack Color Wash Dye 2 Ounce Spray - Butterscotch	Claudine Hellmuth Gesso	Ranger Inkssentials Ink Blending Tool-With 2 Blending Foams

Frilly & Funkie - Fall Colors

The challenge is Fall Colors this week at Frilly & Funkie. Hope you'll join us! I made this jumbo tag using Tim Holtz's Sizzix leaf die, acrylic paints, distress and archival inks, and Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (UTEE). I started by cutting several leaves from grunge paper and then embossed them using different Sizzix embossing folders.  

             
I used lots of leftover scraps of grunge to cut the leaves, and then embedded them in gesso.  After it dried overnight, I started layering on various Golden fluid acrylics until I got the look I wanted.  

          
I stamped some script here and there and added black archival ink over a flower stencil.  I was really tempted to stop there but still needed to 'decorate' so I went to another Sizzix die and favorite set of Tim's stamps, Papillon.

Using manila card stock, I cut the Styled Label, inked and stamped it, then covered with UTEE. Same with the quote, printed on my computer, and another leaf (hit with paint, ink, and UTEE). I made several leaves intending to cluster them:

but then decided a single dangling leaf had more impact:

Linda's rusty metal wire netting adds lots of texture. I cut a piece diagonally and adhered it with copper brads. The quote is hanging onto the wire with redline tape.

Won't you join us at Frilly and Funkie for this color challenge? There's a $25 gift certificate to Linda's shop, The Funkie Junkie Boutique, for a random winner, as well as a blog badge for the design team's favorite.  The challenge is open through midnight Eastern Time on Tuesday, October 2nd, and you can make anything at all with fall colors.

I am also linking to Artists in Blogland, and looking forward to their new "Fall Fearless and Fly" challenge which starts on October 1st.

Thanks so much for the visit.  Have a great day!

Marjie

Products used:

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Spiced Marmalade	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Crushed Olive	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Dusty Concord	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Shabby Shutters	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Mustard Seed
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Barn Door	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Brushed Corduroy	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Black Soot	Claudine Hellmuth Gesso	Ranger Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (UTEE)
Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	SizzixAlterations Movers & Shapers Base Die By Tim Holtz-Styled Labels	Sizzix Alterations - Mini Tattered Leaves Movers & Shapers by Tim Holtz	Tim Holtz Sizzix Texture Fades - Dot Matrix and Gridlock Set	Tim Holtz Sizzix Texture Fades - Collage & Notebook Set
Rusty Tin Wire Net	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Papillon	50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Ranger Inkssentials Manila Card Stock 8.5x11	Ranger Inkssentials Wonder Tape - 8"x10" Sheet

Hinged Tags and Great Outdoors Challenge

 

This week at Frilly and Funkie we're looking for projects that focus on the outdoors or nature, and include a quote about either topic.  I've combined my design team piece for F&F with the Compendium of Curiosites challenge over at Studio L3, which is Enameled Stamping. My technique for CofC is on the second, larger tag.

I started by stamping the skinny Hero Arts butterfly stamp repeatedly on the smaller tag and coloring in the butterflies with Distress Markers.  Then I swiped bundled sage and antique linen distress inks over it, pressed the whole thing into a Versamark pad, and heat embossed with clear powder. I repeated the embossing several times to build up a thick gloss. I did the same to the butterflies and the diecut mini label (which I ran through my printer):

You can find the how-to of the Enameled Stamping technique on page 44 of Tim Holtz's book, The Compendium of Curiosities, Vol 2.  I used Tim's Papillon stamps for the background and some of the butterflies, as well as others by Stampers Anonymous, Wendy Vecchi and Hero Arts.  

The hinges are from Linda Coughlin's shop (The Funkie Junkie Boutique) and I distressed them with Vintaj inks to match my tags. I used tiny Basic Grey magnets to hold the weight of the top tag evenly onto the jumbo tag. I enjoyed stacking the butterflies above and between the tags, with some coming off the paper and some grounded:

I hope you'll join us at Frilly and Funkie for the Great Outdoors challenge!  There's a $25 gift certificate to Linda's shop for a random winner, as well as a blog badge for the design team favorite. Linda has nearly 700 items in the shop, with loads of Ranger and Sizzix goodies, too. The challenge is open through midnight Eastern time on Tuesday, September 18.

Thanks so much for the visit!

Marjie 

 Products used:

Compendium of Curiosities II	Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags (8X4 - 25 tags))	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Papillon Stamp Set	Ranger Distress Markers - Set of 37	Movers & Shapres Mini Labels Sizzix dies	Sizzix Alterations Movers & Shapers Base Tray
Mini Brass Hinge Assortment	Ranger Vintage Patine Kit - Rusted Hardware	Ranger Vintaj Patina Kit = Weathered Copper	http://www.zibbet.com/TheFunkieJunkie/artwork?artworkId=769693	Ranger Acrylic Paint Dabber - Pitch Black	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black
Ranger Distress Ink - Mustard Seed	Ranger Distress Ink - Spiced Marmalade	Ranger Distress Ink - Antique Linen	Ranger Distress Ink - Barn Door	Ranger Distress Ink - Peeled Paint	Ranger Distress Ink - Black Soot

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Kraft Resist Matchbox Notebook

Today I'm combining the Frilly and Funkie challenge with the Compendium of Curiosities challenge, featuring Tim Holtz's Kraft Resist techniques.  I've made a mini notebook with the Sizzix matchbox die (the pages are a pack of post-its.)

The Kraft Resist papers take distress inks like buttah. The more you add, the richer the color. Here's a link to a video Tim shared last week with loads of ideas on using the kraft resist papers.

I made two cuts with the matchbox die and colored each before gluing them together, so the inside would be as finished as the outside. Here's a pic of the inside. I intended to use the small heart die (shown below), but it ended up being too small, so I cut the larger version and used it instead. It's backed with another heart cut from black card.

The Typeset alpha die is one of my favorites because it includes both upper and lower case, and you can mix and match as desired. I didn't want my letters to appear to be floating, so I used some of Linda's burlap string to ground them.  

I stapled the string with Tim's Tiny Attacher (love this tool!) and then used the large heart to cover the staples. I was wondering how to hide the staples showing through on the inside, and then I remembered the smaller heart... what a cool save!

Now the inside looks really nice when I open it up to grab a post-it. Here's a peek inside and a close-up of the cover:

We have a $25 gift certificate for a random player at Frilly and Funkie this week... our challenge is open through September 4th and all are welcome. Hope you will play along and show us your favorite Resist techniques.

Many thanks for the visit!

Marjie 

Products used:

 

Compendium of Curiosities II	Tim Holtz 12X12 Paper Stash - Kraft Resist	Mini Hearts Sizzix/Tim Holtz Movers & Shapers Magnetic Dies	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Alphabet Die - Typeset
Tim Holtz Sizzix Texture Fades - Collage & Notebook Set	Burlap String - 10 Colors	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tiny Attacher	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tiny Attacher Refills
Ranger Distress Ink - Spiced Marmalade	Ranger Distress Ink - Barn Door	Ranger Distress Ink - Broken China	Ranger Distress Ink - Mustard Seed
Ranger Distress Ink - Black Soot	Ranger Ink Blending Tool with 2 Blending Foams

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