Funkie junkie tag 4

I have been a bad bad Halloween blogger the last few days!  

It's simply been busy, and Hubby and I are now in full swing getting ready for mom and dad's arrival

at the end of the week! 

We couldn't be more excited! 

I seem to be moving more into the Christmas Spirit the last few days, so you may see a few more

Halloween posts, but I'm being pulled into the world of glitter and greens and reds!  AHHHH

However I've been following the funkie junkie's blog challenge for 12 Christmas tags!

I am sort of glad that I'm still a few weeks behind, it gives me something to dream about ha ha ha

Today however I'm sharing my rendition of week 4!

Miss Linda has the most fabulous creations, and I've pulled a few different pieces of her creation for this tag!

(You can see her creation here)

and here is mine... 

I was very excited to be able to use my new embossing folder for the red background that I distressed using my sanding block!  I then glittered up the die cut star with some gold glitter, and I die cut a tag and stamped "dream" on it, then added a cut out of Tim Holtz Ideology paper and of course some twine!

The flower is the two smallest tattered flowers die cuts using kraft glassine.

A quick stamp towards the top of the card, and then I added a burlap string with some more twine 

and a button, just like Laurie did!  (only her's is much better!)

I'm enjoying these tags immensely! 

And the best part is that Laurie's store (found here) called the Funkie Junkie Boutique 

 is sponsoring this challenge,

and she is offering a fabulous prize to 3 winners!!!  Wow!

It's certainly not to late to join in the festivities, and the best part is they don't have to be tags, you just have to take some inspiration from what she's created!  

Which for me it seems is always a LOT!

Funkie junkie tag 3

Good evening ladies (and gentlemen??)

I do apologize for not having a halloween post for yesterday or today...

I could probably make up some sort of excuse... but I just haven't had the time!

I had however been working on a few tags for the challenge over at The Funkie Junkie

who is holding a weekly Christmas tag challenge where you take inspiration from the tag that was created on her site

Linda is offering a fabulous prize at the end of the 12 weeks to her wonderful store

(which you can find here) and which is also sponsoring the challenge!

I was inspired by the snowman and the heart on her tag to create mine

If you know anything about me you know that I hold on to that punchinella like it's a piece of gold! So for me to use some on this tag was a little heart wrenching, but it felt right when I applied it so I went with it!

This is the first tag I tried Tim Holtz's Marble stain effect on...

It was obviously an epic fail, but I still tried...

The snow man was actually a mask that I had, so I had to stamp the negative part of the mask and then cut him out of the grunge paper. But he came out alright.

Here's a little bit closer view I was super excited to find a snowflake punch in my stash (from who knows when???) so I punched out a few and added them to the tag...

Do you like??  do you love??  Hubby says I need to be able to display my work somewhere, but I get so self concious about doing that... I figure here on the blog is the best place he he he!

Hope your having a crafty weekend!

Funkie Junkie tag #2

So if you scroll down to the post after this one you will see my first tag offerring, and you'll see

that these two tags are very similar....

I've just simply fallen in love with this new challenge blog The Funkie Junkie

I've definitely CASE'd Linda's tag over there! And you will be seeing more of this challenge as the weeks come... it's actually a 12 week challenge, but their already up to week 5 (almost 6)

and I've come in a few weeks behind!

Please please please take a minute to check out all the fabulous offerings that the funkie junkie has in her store (http://www.thefunkiejunkie.com/) which is sponsoring the challenge.

Linda's inspiration piece uses Tim Holtz riveted patchwork technique which I've done before, so I wanted to take the inspiration off of some of the other things in her tag!

Here's her fun tag that I CASE'd

And here's my version...

As you can see I used my gears embossing folder and red alcohol ink on top of my most favorite aluminum tape! You KNOW I just love that stuff!

I've already started to work on my week 3 tag and currently have lots of paint on my fingers right now!

I hope you are having a creative weekend! 

Funkie Junkie Tag #1

I was sooo excited when I saw this fun challenge going on over at the funkie junkie

It is a weekly challenge leading up to Christmas to make 12 tags, one every week for 12 weeks

There are some amazing prizes, and be sure to check out the funkie junkie shop 

where you can pick up some amazing products!

Ok, so I was inspired by pretty much everything on this amazing tag..

Here is the inspiration tag:

Isn't it beautiful??

Here is my rendention, and as you can see, I pulled a lot of inspiration from this tag, but I love the
bright colors, and I'm sure you already know... I don't know how to do anything not loud! ha ha

Pretty??  I get so self concious when I'm scrap lifting something,

But I am really happy with how it turned out

Here's a bit of a close up

I do love the stars on the bottom, and I finally got to use the wings stamp I bought

a few months ago!

Sooooo if you need a fun challenge to follow along with for a few weeks, check out funkie Junkie, and it's sort of like a series of books, but you don't have to wait months and months for

a new edition, just a week for the new tag to come out.... Plus if you're like me you 

are already a few weeks behind, so you can play catch up with me!  

Have a blessed Friday!  Hope you have great plans for crafting this weekend. 


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