Tim Holtz Floral Card for A Vintage Journey

Hello! It's time for a new challenge at A Vintage Journey and this time our lovely hostess, Jennie, chose the theme 'A Cup of Tea For Your Art'. Pour yourself an extra cup of tea and use it in your project. In your cup you could dye lace, ribbon, wood, paper and flowers, or use it to create splashes or cup rings on your project. And don't just limit yourself to "ordinary tea" - there's green tea, yellow tea, black tea, herbal teas and fruit teas - whatever you've got in your cup! Just remember to ensure that you create in one of our preferred styles of vintage, shabby, mixed media, art journaling, industrial, timeworn or steampunk.

I found a box of Harvest Spice tea in my pantry, and made myself a cup. Ohhh! Smells so good, but tastes like potpourri (sorry, I'm not a tea drinker, unless it's the southern sweet tea, iced cold!)

I dipped  a waste strip from my mixed media paper pad into the cup, pulled it out and let it dry. I repeated this several times to darken the color. I took the tea bag out, squeezed out the liquid, and swiped it down a panel for the background. While the panel was still a little damp, I dipped it into some DOX and dried it.

I also dipped a strip of fabric into the tea and left it to dry. This made a nice bow for my card. The daisy petals (Wildflower Stems #1) were painted with the tea and Distress Oxides.

I chose one of the brightly colored Idea-Ology Botanical Layers (love this pack; it's got brighter colors than the originals) as my base and hand colored some more die cut flowers--Tim Holtz Funky Floral #2 this time. The greenery is Garden Greens, and I colored it with a variety of long neglected green Distress inks.

Tucked under the flowers is a strip of brightly colored and embossed tissue paper, a failed experiment from a previous challenge here at A Vintage Journey. Also a tea-dyed Crochet die cut. A splattering of Forest Moss ink finishes off the card. I purposely did not add a sentiment as I think this card has plenty going on without it.

I hope you will trust me when I say this card is so much prettier in real life. I had trouble with the lighting; taking photos outdoors was out of the question with thunderstorms all over the place. I hope you will play along with A Cup of Tea For Your Art challenge at A Vintage Journey! I can't wait to see what you will make with your cup of tea! Hugs and Blessings! Sara Emily

Challenge shares:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Bright and Cheerful
Scrapy Land Challenge #118 Anything Goes I used 4 Sizzix dies.
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes
Challenge #8 - Anything Goes Mixed Media Creative Challenge at We Love 2 Create at Polkadoodles

These products were used and are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Botanical Layers

Funky Floral #2

Wildflower Stems #1

Garden Greens Thinlits

Crochet Thinlits

Botanical  3-D Texture Fade

Distress Oxides - Candied Apple, Evergreen Bough, Forest Moss, Black Soot, Peeled Paint, Worn Lipstick, Tattered Rose

Distress Inks - Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Bundled Sage, Pine Needles, Fossilized Amber, Mustard Seed

Distress Collage Medium Matte

Memories of Home for Frilly and Funkie

Hello friends! Today the Funkie side of the Frilly and Funkie design team will inspire you with their projects for the current challenge, Home, Sweet Home. I am hosting this challenge and here's the scoop:

Whether your house is grand or modest, neat or messy, there's no place like home. Houses get bought and sold, but home stays with you forever. For this challenge, I would like to see how you interpret what home means to you on your vintage or shabby chic project.

As always, the Design Team will choose their top four picks, and the winner will be invited to join us in a Guest DT spot at Frilly and Funkie. The next three will receive Top 3 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.

Home for me, means quite a few things, but at the base of it all, is family. These are the people I can feel totally comfortable with, and know will love me no matte what. I've lived in quite a few houses in my lifetime--13 houses and apartments in 3 states to be exact. Only a handful of them actually felt like home, so I decided to make a Tim Holtz Tiny House for each of the 4 that outline the stages of my 'home life'.

The first abode depicts the farmhouse I grew up in with my 5 brothers and sisters. While I made  farmhouse siding and a rusted tin roof for this first Tiny House, I really don't remember much about the outside of our house. It's our family inside that matters, and back before cable TV, cell phones and laptops, we spent our time playing and working along side each other day in and day out.

I used an Ideaology Snippets Ephemera 7 cent stamp, because it says US 7. That's what we were: 6 kids and a Dad. I couldn't find an appropriate Paper Doll to represent my Dad (and I don't have a single picture of him) so our dog, Sparky, who was my Dad's sidekick, is standing in for him. Each of the Paper Doll kids was colored with Distress crayons.

 The shiplap siding is watercolor paper embossed with Lumber 3D Texture Fade, smeared with Wendy Vecchi's crackle paste and cut into strips. I highlighted the edges and cracks with Walnut Stain and Hickory Smoke Distress Crayons and glued the strips over a base I cut from an old Tim Holtz Paper Stash cover.

The 'tin roof' is made with layers of Black Soot Distress Paint, heat embossing with Seth Apter's Eclipse Baked Velvet and Chunky Rust, followed by Weathered Wood paint.

'Family' and 'Home' are Big Talk stickers also embossed with the Lumber folder and treated the same as the siding. The Ideaology Milk Cap had Crazing applied to it and smeared with crayon.

'Collector of memories' is a Remnant Rub, and the leaves represent one of my favorite memories of home...the entire family raking big piles of leaves from the three sugar maples out front and then us kids spending the day jumping in them. At the end of the day, my Dad  made them into one huge bonfire. The leaves are Skeleton Leaves Thinlits and the older Fall Foliage Thinlits cut from various colored scraps from my scrap bin.

There were times in my life that my family was geographically far from me, so this next house depicts me living the single life. This is when home meant a place of comfort and safety and a place for me to learn to grow as an individual.

 My second home I bought when I was single  had wood siding, so I constructed this one from Distress Woodgrain Cardstock. I colored this with Antique Linen paint, Bundled Sage and Tumbled Glass Distress stain and Walnut Stain crayon. The roof is cut from a fiber paper from my stash, inked with more Walnut Stain and patted with Weathered Wood paint.

It's at this stage in my life that I fell in love with gardening, so I tucked some Ideaology Botanical Layers behind my Paper Doll. I also tucked in a ticket from the Keepsakes Ephemera Pack and Adorned Thinlits die cuts heat embossed with White Cloud Baked Velvet.

 My third house depicts a time when I met my future husband, married and started our life together in our first combined home. I cut this house from Worn Wallpaper,  because I remember there was lot's of old wall paper that needed to be removed from our fixer upper. My husband and I worked as a team and made that house our home, working nights and weekends on remodeling it. Home meant love and partnership (and a lot of work!).

 I sanded the Worn Wallpaper and added back some color with Distress Oxide Spray and blended with Distress ink. The roof is cut from corrugated card from my stash and scribbled with Distress crayon.

The Baseboard Doll couple couldn't be more perfect!  I colored the couple with Distress crayons. The hearts are actually parts of a flower from the Funky Floral #2 Thinlits. I added color with Wendy Vecchi Blendable ink--Poppy and heat embossed with clear powder. The clock is from the Keepsakes pack and the Remnant Rub #2 is on a Snippet. 'You and me' is a Clippings Sticker.

I finalize my journey at the home we currently live in. It's far from perfect, and I've never really fallen in love with it. This house requires constant repairs, being older. Our home is special though, because it's where my husband and I raised our kids, and it's in a wonderful neighborhood that we feel so at home in. Home is, once again, where my family is.

This Tiny House is  inspired by Anna Karin's beautiful Tiny House and is cut from another old Tim Holtz Paper Stash cover. I used a stone die cut from the Mixed Media #4 Thinlits set and loosely followed Anna Karin's tutorial, substituting Pumice Stone Distress Oxide Spray for her paint. Although my crackle did not turn out at all like I would have pictured, I'm pleased with the stone work nevertheless.  It's the perfect setting for the Paper Doll family from the Christmas pack. Another couple of ephemera from the Keepsakes pack, Funky Floral #3 die cut greenery and a Clippings sticker tell the story.

I left the back unadorned, because I am loving how the stones look here.  I used crackle paste through a Tim Holtz mini stencil from set #28.  I colored with Distress Oxide Sprays. crayons and sealed with Crazing. I highlighted the cracks by smearing with crayon.

I used one of Tim Holtz Fragments stamps and Hickory Smoke Archival ink and text from the Dapper stamp set with Black Soot Archival. I stamped the phrase on a scrap of plain collage paper before sticking down with Collage Medium Matte.

That's all for me! I hope you will visit the Frilly and Funkie challenge blog to see the amazing projects my talented Frilly and Funkie teammates have created. And then, it's over to you! We would love to see what you will create for this challenge! Hugs and blessings! Sara Emily
                                                                                                                                                               

Challenge shares:

Scrapy Land Challenge #116 Anything Goes I used 7 Sizzix dies.

Bleeding Art June Challenge - Add Cardboard I used very thin cardboard for two of my houses and two roofs. I also used thick cardboard to add dimension to my collages.

Crafty Cardmakers #236 Anything But A Card
Double D PICK A PATTERN

The following products were used and can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Tim Holtz Cling Stamps - Fragment

Sizzix Chapter 2 Tim Holtz Thinlits Adorned

Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 5pk - Skeleton Leaves by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 14PK - Fall Foliage by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits Set - Funky Floral #2 by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits Set - Funky Floral #3 by Tim Holtz

Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 3PK - Mixed Media #4 by Tim Holtz

Sizzix 3-D Texture Fades Embossing Folder - Lumber

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Mini Layering Stencils - Set 28

Tim Holtz Distress Woodgrain Cardstock

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Archival Mini Ink Pad Kit #3

Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Oxide Sprays
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Stain
Tim Holtz Distress Paint - Weathered Wood
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Black Soot
Tim Holtz Distress Paint - Ground Espresso
Tim Holtz Distress Paint - Antique Linen
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - 6PC Set #1
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - 6PC Set #2
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons Set #3
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - 6PC Set #5
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Matte
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Crazing
Seth Apter Baked Velvet - 3 Piece Neutrals Kit
Seth Apter Baked Texture - Chunky Rust
Wendy Vecchi Crackle Texture Paste
Wendy Vecchi Make Art Blendable Dye Ink Pad - Poppy
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Baseboard Dolls
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Botanical Layers
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Snippets Ephemera
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Ephemera Pack, Keepsakes
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Big Chat Stickers
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paper Dolls, Christmas
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Worn Wallpaper