Creating Texture with 3D Embossing Folders

Challenge:

The Funkie Junkie Boutique hosts the Frilly and Funkie Challenge Blog and it's time for a new challenge.  Sara Emily is hosting this time around and the challenge theme is "Impress Us".  Get out your embossing folders or anything you have and create a shabby chic or vintage project that has an impression.

My Challenge Creation:

I made a spooky Halloween easel card for the challenge.   Yep, I do make a lot of easel cards.  Why you ask?  Because they look so great standing up by themselves!

The Process:

I used a 3D Tim Holtz 3D Texture Fades Impressions embossing folder for the "impressions" part of the challenge.  I simply placed a piece of black cardstock in my embossing folder and ran it through my Vagabond.  Now to make all the wonderful impressions stand out, I lightly rubbed the surface of the cardstock with Prima Mettalique wax.  I love how that completely changed the appearance and brought out all the impressions highlights.

Next, I grabbed a few Tim Halloween stamps, stamp platform, his Halloween 8 x 8 paper stash and some pumpkin colored cardstock.  I stamped the poison bottle onto patterned paper from the Halloween stack and  trimmed it to a nice rectangular shape and adhered it to the front of the card.   I ALWAYS use the stamp platform to stamp because I am "stamping" challenged.  I love that I can stamp over my image several times using the stamp platform and I did just that, to get a nice dark crisp image of the poison bottle.

Then I stamped the pumpkins using embossing ink onto orange cardstock and used my favorite new embossing powder, Seth Apter's Oil Rubbed Bronze by Emerald Creek, for the pumpkin faces.  It's such a nice shimmery dark color with little flecks of copper.  I fussy cut the pumpkins and popped them on the front, added a black flower and a gingham bow.  One thing I love to do with black flowers is mist them with silver or gold mist.  I used Lindy's Black Orchid Silver to dress up this flower.  It give the otherwise inky black petals some definition.

This is the front or the easel of the card.  For details on how to construct an easel card, you can take a look at these tutorials.  Easel Card Tutorial, and another.

Inside the card, I cut a piece of patterned paper and stenciled some paint drips on it and adhered this to my black cardstock base.  Then I used a really cool spider web acetate overlay that is part of the Halloween Paper Stack. To finish it off, I added a die-cut Happy Halloween sentiment cut from black cardstock and again rubbed lightly with silver wax.  I popped up the two witches and they serve to hold the easel in place.  Oh yes, one final embellishment:  a creepy spider charm crawling around.  Ugh, I hate spiders!!!

How to Enter the Challenge:

Create a vintage or shabby chic "Impress Us" project and link it up to the Frilly and Funkie Challenge any time between now and 11:55 Eastern Time on Tuesday, November 6th, 2018.

The Design Team will choose their top four picks, with the winner being invited to be a guest designer in one of our Frillie and Funkie challenges. The other three winners will receive Top 3 badges to display on their blogs. Everyone who enters and follows the rules will be entered into a draw to have the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Be sure to take a look at the creations of my talented teammates, you can see their creations here, at the Frillie and Funkie Blog.
Maggi

Supplies from The Funkie Junkie Boutique

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paper Stash - Halloween	Sizzix 3-D Texture Fades Embossing Folder - Foundry	Tim Holtz Stamp Platform by Tonic Studios	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Pumpkinhead	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Halloween Blueprint 2	Ranger Archival Ink Pad - Jet Black AIP31468
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Pad TIM21643	Emerald Creek Alure Powders - Oil Rubbed Bronze	Ranger Letter It Black Foam Roll - 1/2"x 1/16"x 2.1yds	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paper Dolls Ancestors	Charm Pendant - Set of 5 Silvertone Spiders	Prima Art Alchemy by Finnabair - Metallique Wax - Old Silver
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Black Soot TIM19541	Tim Holtz Tonic Studios Mini Scissors