Today we have our third Guest Creative Guide to A Vintage Journey and we are so pleased to welcome the lovely ……….
Linda Coughlin from The Funkie Junkie
Like most of us, Linda came to paper crafting after being involved in some sort of craft hobby most of her life. She’s played around with pottery, sewing, cross stitching, home décor projects and was a Creative Memories consultant for over 10 years. Then her best friend became a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator and her love of stamping began. Her favourite crafting styles are shabby chic and Tim Holtz style vintage. She started blogging in 2008 and has been on numerous design teams. She is currently designing for Artistic Outpost and Our Creative Corner plus her own design team Frilly and Funkie. Linda and her husband are both retired and moved from Miami to Gainesville, Florida last year. Besides keeping busy with paper crafting, Linda is an avid bicyclist and has her own online craft supplies store.
What an honor it is to be a guest designer for this fantastic new Tim Holtz style blog and to join in The Vintage Journey with all the uber talented designers! I’m so excited to be able to share my Springtime in Paris project with you today. When I was given the challenge theme of Paris, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to really delve into a springtime in Paris motiff. My design intent was to make a triptych but in the end, when I had all my embellishments made and laid out, I just couldn’t squeeze them into three panels and ended up with a quadriptych.
I started by cutting my panels with the Postage Stamp die. The first panel is white card stock and was embossed with a brick wall texture fade. I created a rusty trellis with chipboard embossed with Vintage Photo distress embossing powder. The ivy was cut with the new Spring Greenery decorative strip die, colored with Bundled Sage and stamped with the postage seal stamp from the Paris to London set. I created the Paris seal with a vintage download from the internet and covered it with a clear epoxy seal.
Panel two was also a piece of white card stock stamped with the new Distress Damask stamp set, embossed with Winter White embossing powder and sponged with Vintage Photo. I used some wonderful vintage ephemera from the Thrift Shop pack and added a couple of lovely metal embellies from the Adornments - Nature collection. I also downloaded the vintage rose image from the internet and created another epoxy seal.
Panel three was another piece of white card stock, this time stamped with the background stamp from Papillon. Embossing was added using the Harlequin stencil and Wendy Vecchi’s black embossing paste. A tag was created using a stamp from the Mini Classics set stamped in Vermillion archival ink and sponged with Frayed Burlap. The crinkled seam binding bow was dyed with Stormy Sky and an Eiffel Tower charm was added.
Panel four is an aluminium sheet embossed with the a texture fade which was then painted with Pitch Black acrylic paint, partially dried and then the paint was wiped off. I added a post card from the Thrift Shop pack and made a little envelope, sponged with Stormy Sky DI and stamped with the postage seal stamp from Paris to London.
My flowers were all cut from white card stock using the Tattered Flowers decorative strip die. The CS was colored with a mix of Spun Sugar and Worn Lipstick distress stains. They were then misted with water, scrunched up, dried and carefully unfurled. Each petal was then sponged with Vintage Photo DI and I added self adhesive rhinestones as centres.
There you have it. I had a wonderful time playing with all the wonderful Tim Holtz products while creating this piece. I hope you like my tribute to Paris in the springtime. Thank so much to the design team of A Vintage Journey for inviting me to be their guest designer for ‘A Little bit French’ challenge!
To find out more about Linda’s fabulous work please pop over to her blog to see the amazing art she produces. She is a great inspiration to so many of us and at the end of the year she runs her 12 Tags of Christmas challenge which is a very popular place to be with so much inspiration from this lovely lady herself.
Thanks Linda for joining us for this challenge as a Guest Creative Guide and sharing this amazing project with us. Linda also has a special blog hop running today for a very special little girl who has just been diagnosed with Leukemia and is helping to fund raise for the her and her family. She is having a silent auction for the project she is showing here today, whatever it sells for she is going to match that amount and donate it to this worthy fund.
Don’t forget you have another four days to join in with the current challenge ‘A Little it French’ before the next new challenge starts at midnight, Friday morning.
Thanks again to Linda and to all of you who have jumped aboard to share this amazing journey with us.
Have a creative week and enjoy your own crafty journey.
