Mysterious Garden Wall with Tim Holtz Thinlits and Prima IOD Moulds for Frilly and Funkie

Hello friends! Thank you for joining me today! It's time for the Funkie side of the Frilly and Funkie team to share some inspiration for our current challenge 'Elegant Jewels' chosen by our lovely and talented Cec.

Here's what Cec has to say about her theme: "Let's make a vintage or shabby chic project in jewel tone colours such as deep purple, emerald green, jade green, burgundy, bright turquoise to name a few AND to make your project extra special, add some sort of jewel or gem, which can be anything from a dollar store find to a piece of broken jewelry."

I visualized some jewel toned flowers growing out of an antique zinc planter, but it didn't turn out like that. Instead I have flowers climbing over a 'carved slate wall'. I'll be sharing a tutorial on how to create this faux background on May 5th here at Frilly and Funkie, so be sure to pay us a visit then.

I began making my flowers by coloring a piece of Heavy Stock with Merlot and Indigo Color Bursts. I love how this paper can stand up to a lot of liquid mediums. I wet the paper first, then sprinkled some of these glorious powders onto the wet paper. I spritzed with water and moved the color around by tilting the paper and directing the colored water with my heat tool. I can make the color as pale and transparent as I want or make the color deep and rich, just by how much water I apply. I cut two of the Wildflowers from the paler portions of the paper and two of the Tiny Tattered Florals from the deeper colored paper. It's so easy to twist up these little flowers with the quilling tool included with the dies. Someone like myself who is handmade flower challenged can whip these up in minutes using this die set, which also includes three sizes of roses and three sizes of the daisy-like third flower (on the right) I had left over from THIS  project.

 It was originally sprayed with Peacock Feathers Distress Spray Stain, but I gave it a quick makeover with a spritz of Wilted Violet Distress Spray Stain. I love how that gave me just the right shade to go with my two Color Burst flowers. I had a few tiny flowers from a LONG time ago that I believe I made with an old Tim Holtz strip die. I just dipped them in a puddle of Merlot. I purchased a BOX of silk flowers at a friend's yard sale this weekend with the intention of using the purple and deep pink flowers on this project, but I ended up just tearing one of the flowers off the garland, pulling it apart and re-working into this rose bud.

 I cut ivy using the Garden Greens die.  These were colored with several green Twinkling H2O's to get that rich raw jade green. I wrapped the bottom of my rose bud with one of the largest ivy leaves.

I layered my flowers over a broken earring from my quite large stash of old costume jewelry. This was colored with Cranberry and Purple Twilight alcohol inks and adhered to the Object Labels Prima IOD molded piece. These molds make the most beautifully detailed pieces. You can use them with hot glue, clays and resins, even chocolate,  but I  prefer paper clay. I also colored five crystal clear gems from my stash with the same colors and all the jewels were given just the teensiest swipe of  Old Silver Prima Metallique Wax. Additional molded pieces from Baroque 6 set were added at the top and bottom. Everything was adhered using my favorite glue, Multi Medium Matte.

That's all for me today! I hope you've gotten a little inspiration to create your own vintage or shabby chic project in rich jewel tones.  There's plenty more wonderful inspiration from my teammates at Frilly and Funkie, so I hope you'll pop over and then play along with our Elegant Jewels challenge. The team will choose 4 of their favorites and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the draw for the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. I can't wait to see what YOU will create!

I'm sharing with these challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown #388 - Glimmer and Shine My glimmer is on the ivy leaves and the shine is on the jewel and gems.

Card Mania Challenge CMC#103 Spring

Country View Challenges April 2018 - Pimp it up! I pimped my panel, but details won't be out until May 5. I also altered some flowers and an old earring.

CreataliciousChallenge #137 ANYTHING GOES with optional dies and punches I used 2 flower die sets.

SanDee&amelie's Anything Goes - Steampunk/Industrial

Creative Artiste's #37th Challenge "Anything Mixed Media Goes"

Die Cut Divas Altenew for April I used flower dies.

Dies R Us Challenge #95 - Springtime I used flower dies.

Love To Scrap LTSCB #108 - April Showers Bring May Flowers!

We Love 2 Create Challenge # 7 - Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Add Some Texture

Thank you for stopping by and for your lovely comments!

Hugs and Blessings!

Sara Emily

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

Prima Marketing IOD Vintage Art Decor Mould - Object Labels 2	Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Cranberry	Ken Oliver Color Burst Bundle - Summer 2015 Colors	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain - Wilted Violet	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Peacock Feathers
(February Pre-order) Prima Art Alchemy by Finnabair-Metallique Wax - Old Silver	Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 9PK - Garden Greens by Tim Holtz	Sizzix® Thinlits™ Die Set 15PK - Tiny Tattered Florals by Tim Holtz®	(February Pre-order) Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 7PK - Wildflowers #2 by Tim Holtz	TIm Holtz Distress Mixed Media Heavystock TDA53835
Ranger Multi Medium Matte 4 oz.	Prima Marketing Vintage Art Décor Mould - Baroque 6 (March Pre-order)