Super Easy Tim Holtz Floral Collage Vintage Card Tutorial for Frilly and Funkie

Hello friends! It's time again for the Funkie side of the Frilly and Funkie Design Team to unveil our inspiration projects for the current challenge, Pass the Tissues, Please!, chosen by me.  I decided to make an easy card for my daughter.

Since we are still in 'cold season', I always make sure I'm stocked up on tissues in my home, in my purse and in the car. For this theme, I would like to see how you incorporate tissue paper into your vintage or shabby chic project. You can use regular tissues, tissue wrapping paper, sewing patterns or even collage paper, rice papers or tissue wrap designed especially for crafting.

I forgot to mention those tissues come in handy for pollen season, too, which has just started in our neck of the woods. Everything is yellow!

As always, the Design Team will choose their top four picks, and the winner will be invited to join us in a Guest DT spot at Frilly and Funkie. The next three will receive Top 3 badges to display on their blogs. Everyone who enters and follows the rules will be entered into the draw to have the chance to win a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

I've prepared a mini tutorial on how I used Tim Holtz Collage paper, if you care to follow along, or you could skip down to the close up photos.

Although this is a different collage paper scrap than what I used on my project, I wanted to show how easy it is to tear just the part of the image you wish to use. I chose Tim Holtz Floral Collage Paper, because the images are so pretty and perfect for spring. I use a water pen and outline the area I want to tear out. Then pulling it gently apart with my two fingers, I use my water pen to wet just the specific area I'm pulling apart. Tearing it like this, as opposed to cutting it helps it to blend into the background. I flip the collage paper over and apply Distress Picket Fence paint to the flower images to make them stand out and prevent the background pattern from showing through.

 I used the tiniest of collage paper scraps to provide some interest to the card blank. I adhere the scrap to just the edge using Distress Collage Medium Matte and trim with scissors. Then I use my sanding block to give it a nice finished edge. Wipe any dust off, apply more collage medium over top. When the collage medium is dry, I scribble with Distress Crayon Antique Linen. I dampen my finger and spread the crayon smooth--the collage medium makes the crayon easy to spread evenly.

 In the photo above, you can see I've adhered my Collage Paper Scraps (again using collage medium under and over the tissue) to a monoprint background I had in my stash. This is left over from Halloween, and you can probably make out some spooky words from the Halloween Layering stencil. I think it just makes for an interesting pattern, and in the end you don't even notice it's letters and numbers, let alone BOO, WICKED, HALLOWEEN, FRIGHTFUL or 31! Ha! Ha!

I had this stitched heart die cut in my stash--a gift from my good friend, Autumn, and it was perfect to use as my focal point along with a watercolor paper scrap and some Prima Tissue Tape (Amber Moon).

Smudging with background with Distress Crayons adds some age/vintage-ness.

After adhering another bit of the collage paper to the heart, I gave it a coat of Distress Clear Rock Candy Crackle Paint. Antiqued Bronze Distress Crayon highlights those gorgeous cracks. I chose an Occasions Small Talk sticker for my sentiment.

It really is that simple--so why not pull out some collage, rice or tissue paper, sewing patterns or even just plain old Kleenex and play along with our challenge?  I can't wait to see what YOU will create! Thank you for stopping by! I hope you have a blessed day! Hugs! Sara Emily

Challenge shares:

Country View Challenges March 2019 - Letters and/or Numbers

Love 2 Create Mixed Media Challenge #3 Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes
Crafty Cardmakers #229 Make It Green
Use Your Stuff Challenge #351 - Washi tape
Bleeding Art March Challenge - Anything Goes
Dies R Us Challenge #117 - One for the Ladies I'm certain the heart die used is Tutti Designs.
Scrapy Land Challenge #110 Anything Goes

Tim Holtz Addicts March Challenge

These products were used and are stocked by The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Collage Paper Floral	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Halloween THS027	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Matte TDA47933	Tim Holtz Distress Crayons Set- Metallics (Antique Bronze/Brushed Pewter/Tarnished Brass)	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - 6PC Set #3 TDBK47926
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Hickory Smoke	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Barn Door	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Ripe Persimmon	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Frayed Burlap TIM21469	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Antique Linen TIM19497
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Ground Espresso TIM43270