I'm up on The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog today with the Saturday Showcase where I'll show you how to make a slider easel card. Join me here, it'll be fun!
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Eileen Hull Designs Trinket Box with a Shaker Top
Eileen Hull Designs Trinket Box with a Twist
Eileen trinket box is surely a favorite design of many and today I want to show you how to turn the box into a shaker trinket box. Shakers are so popular right now, this is a fun way to present a special gift to a special person!
I've recorded a video to show you how to make the shaker and assemble the trinket box. Best to watch it through before assembling your shaker trinket box as I give you tips and methods that I learned along the way while making this shaker trinket box.
When I die-cut the face for the trinket box, I did not use a crease pad so the inner oval that is normally just scored, cut all the way through and I liked that as it enabled me to turn the oval over and use a contrasting oval inset.
To make the ribbon closure, I simple adhered ribbon to the inside of the front cover, and glued a decorative strip of paper as shown below. Then I adhered another piece of ribbon to the back cover and covered the back with a die-cut cover.
View of the outside
A little bonus for you
I love to add handmade tags to my gifts. These are super simple and you can whip up a bunch in no time. I simply die-cut a bunch of tags using Eileen Hull's Bookplate die from scraps all at one time. Next I used my Crop-a-dile to punch holes at the top. Then I cut some of the tags into pieces and mixed and matched papers while assembling my tags. I rummaged through my trims bin and added decorative trims and stamped "to-from" son cream paper, cut those out and adhered. Tie a string at the top and that's all there is to it.
Eileen Hull Designs Dies Used
Thanks for joining me today!
Maggi
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Lovely Leaves Challenge on The Funkie Junkie Blog
The Challenge - Lovely Leaves
Welcome to another fabulous challenge at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog. Jenny is our host this time and she says, "At this time of year leaves take over from flowers as the stars of Nature's display - the deciduous ones take on beautiful Autumnal hues before falling to the ground, whilst the evergreen ones keep our gardens from looking bare as we wait for new flowers to appear in the Spring. For this challenge make sure to add leaves (or even Pine Needles if you like)your vintage or shabby chic projects."
My Project
This the season and all that! I decided to make a piece for my front door. This is a small Etcetera tag measuring 5.5" x 10"; really not all that small! These tags come in several sized and they are perfect for home decor projects that are just a little bit different!
How to Enter the Challenge
Create a vintage or shabby chic project and link it up to The Funkie Junkie Blog Challenge, Lovely Leaves. The Design Team will choose their top four picks, with the winner being invited to be a guest designer in one of our Funkie Junkie 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 Funkie Junkie Blog.
Wild Orchid Crafts Christmas flowers
Welcome to another fabulous challenge at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog. Jenny is our host this time and she says, "At this time of year leaves take over from flowers as the stars of Nature's display - the deciduous ones take on beautiful Autumnal hues before falling to the ground, whilst the evergreen ones keep our gardens from looking bare as we wait for new flowers to appear in the Spring. For this challenge make sure to add leaves (or even Pine Needles if you like)your vintage or shabby chic projects."
My Project
This the season and all that! I decided to make a piece for my front door. This is a small Etcetera tag measuring 5.5" x 10"; really not all that small! These tags come in several sized and they are perfect for home decor projects that are just a little bit different!
I started by painting the tag white and then I added a base layer of paper from the Christmas Worn Wallpaper collection. Next I stenciled on some snowflakes and over than I stenciled gold checks with Tim Hotlz gingham layering mask.
The Merry Christmas words are from Creative Embellishments and I heat embossed them with Eileen Hull Designs Molten Dimensions Golden Rod. The words were adhered to a piece of die-cut Worn Wallpaper that I popped up to make it stand out. This I mounted onto red cardstock to further emphasize the words.
I love tradition Christmas red and green so I went with red as my accent color adding red trim and flowers to complete the festive look!
To meet Jenny's challenge, I used Tim Holtz's Holiday Greens Sizzix die to die-cut pine boughs to tuck around my flowers and bow.
Then I tucked in a couple of pine cones die-cut with the Pine Branch Thinlits set. I think they are the perfect finishing touch!
I also love to add sparkle to my Christmas projects and I added a lot of sparkle to this one. I stenciled the snowflakes with white paste and after that dried I painted over them with sparkle gel so they would twinkle! The flowers are misted with Lindy's Blazing Sun Glitz Spritz which just adds a nice gold sparkle to the petals. I dabbed Ponderosa Pines Olive onto the pine boughs to give them a hint of sparkle. It's really too bad that the camera doesn't pick up all the sparkle of this festive piece!
A side view so you can see the dimension created by popping up the title
Create a vintage or shabby chic project and link it up to The Funkie Junkie Blog Challenge, Lovely Leaves. The Design Team will choose their top four picks, with the winner being invited to be a guest designer in one of our Funkie Junkie 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 Funkie Junkie Blog.
Supplies from The Funkie Junkie Boutique
Other Supplies
Red cardstock
Wild Orchid Crafts Christmas flowers
Petaloo Poinsettia
Red trim - Hobby Lobby
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Tags and Shakers!
Now this is just plain FUN! If you know me, you know that I love my furbabies. I've combined Graphic 45's Raining Cats and Dogs with a really old paper from BasicGrey (I think) to make this fun large sized shaker tag. Note that there are 3 poodles showing on the tag, 😄
The Tag
The tag is a great size at 5.5" x 10" and is made of sturdy chipboard by Creative Embellishments. Tags are my art journal of sorts, I love to make tags for fun and just to try out new things. This one is really simple but I think it has a great impact!
The Shaker Top
The bone shaker is so awesome and the minute I saw it, I had to have it! I was scrapping with my scrappy girls that come once a year and there I sat with this tag and this shaker. I kept placing the shaker here and there on the tag but nothing would work. Then you know, it's like lightening, boom! It made a great "bow" for my tag. The shaker is also chipboard from Creative Embellishments and comes complete with everything you need to make a shaker except the filling. I used Black Magic embossing powder from Eileen Hull Designs to coat the shaker. My shaker material is a great collection of buttons, beads, charms etc from 28 Lilac Lane by Buttons Galore. They make great shaker materials in so many colors and mixes. Stop by and check them out here.
My Furbabies
Aren't they sweet? There's 3 years difference in their ages and they adore each other but they do have sibling rivalry just like all kids!
Many thanks to my scrappy bff Jen for bringing the Buttons Galore & More "stuff" to my house for all of us to enjoy! And thanks to all of you that read and follow my blog, much appreciated!
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Fabulous Fall Challenge at The Funkie Junkie Blog.
Ginny is hosting our latest challenge and it's a colorful fall challenge. She says fall is a "wonderful season where the leaves are changing and the air is crisp and our thoughts turn to pumpkin spice everything. For this challenge create a Fall inspired" vintage or shabby chic project.
My Project
As you probably know, I love dimension and bulk and most of my cards don't fit in conventional envelopes. I just can't seem to stop piling on the layers and flowers! This card is no exception, it's slider card mounted on a patchwork of beautiful fall colors. It's lovely as a card or even a piece of fall decor.
My Project
As you probably know, I love dimension and bulk and most of my cards don't fit in conventional envelopes. I just can't seem to stop piling on the layers and flowers! This card is no exception, it's slider card mounted on a patchwork of beautiful fall colors. It's lovely as a card or even a piece of fall decor.
The Method
What you're looking at above is a 4.25" x 5.5" slider card that I made with the Spellbinder's die pictured below. (Sorry the card is upside down) After assembling the card, I mounted it onto another layer of design paper to give it a frame.
The Frame
Stamperia's Patchwork Collection has so many pretty papers that work with all the seasons. I selected this patchwork paper for it's fall colors. The paper is 12 x 12 and has a border all the way around it. Well I wanted that border all around so I cut a large piece 6" x 7.5". Then I cut the border off the other corner and glued it in place to create a nice frame. The size of the frame was determined by measuring carefully so that a 1/8" border of the green would peek out around the card.
By the way, did you know that The Funkie Junkie Boutique carries a great selection of Stamperia products at great prices, do check it out!
After assembling the frame I adhered the slider card to the frame, centering. Then I adhered a smaller die-cut frame to the card being careful to ONLY glue to the bottom half of the pop up mechanism. You can see the slider and pop up mechanism in the 2nd photo below.
I glued a die-cut medallion made with gold kraft paper and the Impresslits embossing folder. It's a lot easier to grasp the pull on the slider with the medallion on it.
View from the back.
To finish the card, just add embellishments of your choice being careful not to adhere anything to the slider itself, thereby preventing it from sliding!
Be sure to join me on November 30th for the Saturday Showcase on The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog as I will show you how to make Christmas slider cards of different sizes. Here's a sneaky peek!
How to Enter the Challenge
Create a vintage or shabby chic project and link it up to The Funkie Junkie Blog Challenge, Fabulous Fall. The Design Team will choose their top four picks, with the winner being invited to be a guest designer in one of our Funkie Junkie 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 Funkie Junkie Blog.
Supplies from The Funkie Junkie Boutique
Stamperia Patchwork Paper Collection
Distress Oxide Ink - Vintage Photo, Wild Honey, Antique Linen
Bronze Pumpkin Charm
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Metallic Kraft Stock 8 x 8 Pad
Sizzix 3-D Impresslits Embossing Folder - Medallion
Other Supplies
Spellbinders Festive Wreaths Slider Card die set
Spellbinders Netabilities Iron Romance Etched Dies
Bakers Twine
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