Welcome! Today the Funkie side of the Frilly and Funkie team get to present their inspiration for the current challenge at
Frilly and Funkie. Our talented hostess Suzz has chosen the theme "The Year of....." She says,
"Welcome to a brand new year! I am not very good at New Year Resolutions but I do like to think about what I want to focus on in the New Year. To help me do this, I pick a word that is my word for the year and try to use that word to keep me focused on what is important. The challenge to you is to pick a word that will be your inspiration for 2018. Create a vintage or shabby chic project that includes your word of 2018. The word can be part of a sentiment, phrase or stand alone on your project as long as it is featured somewhere in your art."
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I never knew how difficult it would be to chose a word to focus on for the year; I guess I never really thought about it. Initially my mind went to 'Intention' as to live life with intention, but I'd just posted my project,
"Intentions", and it seemed a little redundant. The word 'home' kept coming to the surface, because my husband and I have been working on a plan to downsize in a few years. So not only do I intend to focus on working on our house alongside my husband, but to focus more on the people I love who live in and visit our home.
I chose an old canvas from my stash and removed the wrapped canvas by pulling out the (many, rusty) staples. I painted the inner edges with two coats of gesso and adhered an old Tim Holtz paper with house blueprints to the outer edges and face of the frame.
Before adhering the paper to the face of the frame, I embossed it with Tim's Lattice Texture Fade. After the papers were adhered, dried, and sanded, I applied a wash of Burnt Orange and Burnt Umber Color Bursts with a soft paint brush to the outside edges and face of the frame. I swiped Prima's gold Crackle paste through a Wendy Vecchi bricks stencil, and when dry blended with Walnut Stain Distress Crayon. Lastly I smeared on more Rusty Paper to make it work with the background.
I wanted to make the inner edges of the wood frame blend with the back panel, and colored with Distress stains in Stormy Sky and Picket Fence, but I really didn't like how it looked. I ended up mixing up some more Color Bursts in the same colors as the rest of the frame and applied it with my finger. The Picket Fence stain was still wet, and it all blended into the perfect vintage chalky finish. Yippee for happy mistakes!
My background is from Tim's Correspondence Paper Stash, colored with Distress Oxides -- Faded Jeans and Vintage Photo. I used his Crossed Stencil with Light Modeling Paste mixed with Viva Rusty Paper and lightly touched stenciled areas with Prima Metallique wax. I did some background stamping with Oxides and Tim's Lattice and Flourish stamps and also with chalk paint and a pen cap.
I cut a Tiny House from another paper from the Correspondence pad and inked with Antique Linen and Vintage Photo DOX. The roof is thin chipboard inked with Black Soot and Walnut Stain DOX and smeared with Rusty Paper. I assembled the house and realized it needed to be thinner to work with the depth of my frame. I cut the back off and scored the sides midway, so the back flap could adhere to my background. To support it I added scraps of foam core and thick cardboard to the back side of the house. The roof was also cut to fit the depth of the house. See? I'm already working on downsizing our home!
I adhered the happy couple and Heartfelt die cut with Distress Vintage Collage medium and scribbled and shaded with Distress crayon.
The scroll die cuts were colored this summer when I was so blessed to have a play date with my friend and team mate, Autumn. I've been hoarding them for the perfect project. I backed them with a second set of cut from black card. I backed the house with a Tim Holtz doily die cut. My flowers are Color Your Own by Little Birdie and Tim Holtz Bouquet. Both the flowers and Clippings Sticker were colored with Distress Oxide. "Home" is a quote chip distressed with DOX and crayon.
Have you chosen your word yet? We would love to see how you portray your special focus word for 2018 in a vintage or shabby chic project and enter our "The Year of" challenge! Please check out all the details and even more inspiration from my Frilly and Funkie teammates at
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Thank you for stopping by today and for your lovely comments! They mean so much to me!
Hugs and Blessings!
Sara Emily
